In the paper industry, we need lots of steam and electricity. The quantities and the energy levels (superheated steam pressure) we need cannot be readily generated by methods deemed acceptable by most environmental groups. This is a problem.
The PAPTAC meeting in Montreal in February demonstrated an encouraging upturn in attendance, innovation and optimism about the forest products industry relative to the past several years or so.
As I think back over the past three decades, there are certain unchanging facts that have become quite evident in the whole business of siting and running successful pulp and paper facilities.
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