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Editorial: Nonwovens sector provides opportunities for professional and advanced textiles growth, TAPPI Journal February 2023
ABSTRACT: With inflation still lingering, global fiduciary regulatory agencies like the U.S. Federal Reserve are handling the issue by hiking base interest rates. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has exposed lagging investments for advanced and agile manufacturing in developed economies in the recent past. Because of this situation, governments have begun taking policy initiatives, such as boosting support for infrastructure in the United States, creating a National Mission on Technical Textiles in India, and many initiatives in the United Kingdom and European Union to boost clean energy, fight climate change, and encourage sustainable manufacturing.
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Editorial: New research signals promising future for wet-end options, TAPPI Journal January 2023
ABSTRACT: Welcome to the 2023 special Wet-End Technology issue of TAPPI Journal. All of the papers published in this issue reflect the latest information on wet-end chemistry and are based on preentations from the wet-end chemistry sessions at TAPPICon2022.
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Editorial: The state of cellulosic nanotechnology: June conference captures current and emerging trends, TAPPI Journal July 2023
ABSTRACT: From June 12-16, 253 participants from 18 countries gathered in Vancouver, BC, Canada, for TAPPI’s 2023 International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials. Representatives from academia, industry, and federal research institutes could choose from among 140 technical presentations on production, characterization, applications, and functionalization of renewable nanomaterials.
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Editorial: Progress continues in recovery cycle optimization, TAPPI Journal March 2023
ABSTRACT: Travel came to a halt just before the 2020 International Chemical Recovery Conference (ICRC) was to take place in Brazil. The ICRC was to be co-hosted in 2021 with TAPPI PEERS, but PEERS was eventually cancelled for that year as travel for many had not resumed. In early 2022, The University of Toronto hosted an online meeting in order to bring together the community of researchers and industrial engineers for an ICRC event. At this event, 19 research papers were presented.
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Multifunctional starch-based barrier materials, TAPPI Journal August 2021
ABSTRACT: Natural and renewable polymer-based barrier materials play an inevitable role in a sustainable economy. Most commercially available barrier materials are either based on multiple layers of synthetic polymers or petroleum-based chemicals. Tremendous amounts of research are being done in academia and industry to replace these synthetic barrier materials with natural and environmentally friendly materials. The current work summarizes the application of starch-based materials for various barrier applications, such as water vapor, oxygen, liquid water, oil, and grease. Also, exotic starch-based barrier materials for the application of sound, ultraviolet, and thermal barrier applications are reviewed. The potential of starch-based materials to offer antimicrobial and antiviral properties is discussed. Finally, commercially available starch-based barrier materials have been summarized.
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Toward environmental resilience in pulp and paper manufacturing: Water consumption and carbon dioxide emission reductions, TAPPI Journal September 2025
ABSTRACT: Pulp and paper manufacturing is a water- and energy-intensive industrial sector, necessitating improvement of its operational efficiency, as well as reduction of emissions to the maximum extent possible. This review focuses on the reduction of water consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that originate in the pulp and paper industry (PPI). First, process simulation and optimization techniques used for water consumption reduction are reviewed. Then, techno-economic analyses of solvent-based CO2 capture from PPI are discussed. Additionally, key actions are proposed for enhancing water consumption reduction and CO2 capture in PPI.
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Editorial: Special issue on Paper Physics highlights continued focus on packaging, TAPPI Journal August 2025
ABSTRACT: It is a great pleasure to present this special issue of TAPPI Journal, featuring papers from the 2024 International Paper Physics Conference (IPPC) that have been peer-reviewed for publication in this journal. The conference was held in Wuppertal, Germany, from September 30 to October 2, 2024. This IPPC series is one component of the annual meeting of the International Paper Physics Committee and community, complementing the Fundamental Research Symposia established in 1957 — and the Progress in Paper Physics meetings.
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19th European PLACE Conference highlights challenges of balancing sustainability with product protection, TAPPI Journal July 2025
ABSTRACT: The European PLACE (Polymers, Laminates, Adhesives, Coatings and Extrusion) Committee was founded in 2023 with the goal of continuing a biennial conference for the flexible packaging and converting industry, including converters, OEMs, raw materials suppliers, and academia. Previous iterations of the PLACE Conference were organized by TAPPI, but the new European Place Committee has now found a home within bdvi e.V. (Bund Deutscher Verpackungsingenieure), which is the Association of German Packaging Engineers, a registered nonprofit organization.
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Continuous digester rapid thinning, TAPPI Journal June 2024
ABSTRACT: Carbon steel continuous digesters built after the early 1980s are fully stress relieved, so stress corrosion cracking has been less of a concern. However, these newer digesters were designed to run modified cooking processes that have turned out to be much more corrosive than those running with conventional cooking. This corrosion is mainly associated with softwood digesters and appears to be flow related. Average corrosion rates of 40 mil/year are possible on the exposed shell between the wash and extraction screens. The corrosion patterns are visually distinct from surfaces in the upper digester and below the wash screens. This paper goes into practical detail on where it occurs, the causes, visual identification, inspection planning and results evaluation, and finally, how to mitigate this damage, which consists of applying a corrosion resistant barrier. Some discussion on dealing with general corrosion throughout the digester is included.
Editorial: The innovation engine and the forest products industry value chain, TAPPI Journal October 2023
ABSTRACT: The forest products industry (FPI • pulp, paper, paperboard, building products, allied products, and byproducts) has been continuously innovating as it manufactures and delivers value-added products to consumers worldwide. Integrated pulp and paper mills produce pulp, paper, paperboard, and byproducts like turpentine, tall oil, methanol, lignin, and other chemicals.