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STAR - July 2025 - STAR of the Month

This TAPPI Useful Method delivers essential corrugated bond testing procedures for single facer and doublebacker glue lines, enabling operations managers and R&D professionals to enhance quality control protocols. The standardized testing approach includes proper sample preparation with 10-minute cooling periods and fiber tear evaluation techniques. Developed by industry experts including professionals from Commencement Bay Corrugated and Coastal Container, this method provides benchmarking standards that help manufacturing teams optimize adhesive performance and reduce production defects. Operations leaders can leverage these proven testing protocols to demonstrate measurable ROI through improved bond strength consistency and reduced waste in corrugated manufacturing processes.

STAR - July 2025 - Did You Know

Mid-career professionals seeking leadership development and technical advancement can actively shape industry standards through TAPPI's Standard-Specific Interest Groups (SSIGs). To participate in the balloting process for TAPPI Standards, you must join the relevant SSIGs, as each standard maintains its own dedicated group. While draft standards are publicly available for review, voting privileges require SSIG membership. This participation opportunity allows operations managers, R&D leads, and sales engineers to demonstrate technical leadership, benchmark industry practices, and build professional credibility while contributing to standards that directly impact their daily operations and career advancement.

19th European PLACE Conference highlights challenges of balancing sustainability with product protection, TAPPI Journal July 2025

Metsä Tissue’s Kreuzau mill: A New Course for a More Sustainable Future

Elevate your Packaging Plant Through Connected Execution

Early in your career, understanding how MES and ERP systems connect, or fail to, is a real competitive edge. This free TAPPI webinar breaks down how corrugated plants use automation tools like real-time scheduling, shop floor data collection, and inventory management to cut waste and boost efficiency. One plant reports 81% savings through automation alone, giving you concrete, data-backed insights to bring back to your team.

Online Zeta Potential Measurement for a Constant Process and Quality Control

New to wet-end chemistry? This article breaks down how online zeta potential monitoring works and why it matters for chemical dosing, retention, and product quality. Real mill case studies show a 25% cut in wet strength agent use and a new grade launched in five hours, giving you concrete examples to reference on the job and talk about with your team.

Unifor Members Ratify New Eastern Canada Pulp and Paper Pattern Agreement

Assocarta Calls for Radical Reform of the EU Carbon Market Reserve

Assocarta has called on the European Commission and the European Parliament’s Environment Committee to radically transform the Market Stability Reserve (MSR) into an instrument capable of genuinely regulating the carbon market and allowing European energy-intensive companies to compete globally.

Smurfit Westrock Announces Agreement to Acquire CMPC’s Chilean Containerboard and Corrugated Business

Smurfit Westrock plc (“Smurfit Westrock” or the “Company”) (NYSE: SW) is pleased to announce its agreement to acquire the Chilean Containerboard and Corrugated business of Empresas CMPC S.A. (“CMPC”) for consideration of $420 million, which represents a post-synergy transaction multiple of less than 6 times Adjusted EBITDA.

Introducing the IONIC Titrator

Metrohm USA has launched the IONIC Titrator, a new generation of standalone titration that combines intuitive operation, direct cloud connectivity, and Metrohm's trusted analytical performance in a flexible, modern platform.