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WebAcademy - reduce the knowledge gap at your mill
Maria J. Doa, Ph.D is the director of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Chemical Control Division in the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. Doa will be the keynote speaker at TAPPI’s 2016 International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials, which will be held June 13-16 in Grenoble, France. This interview was conducted for TAPPI by Jack Miller, founder and principal consultant, Market-Intell LLC.
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China’s Recovered Paper Import Demand Over the Next Five Years: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
After falling continuously in 2013 and 2014, Chinese recovered paper imports rebounded by about 6% from 27.5 million metric tons in 2014 to 29 million metric tons in 2015, just slightly less than the peak level of 30 million metric tons in 2012. More than 55% of the import increase came from Western Europe, while the United States accounted for only 20% of China’s import growth.
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Attracting Engineering Grads
It’s spring and that means days are getting warmer, nights are getting shorter, and flowers are blooming; it also means thousands of soon-to-be engineers are looking for jobs. Before hiring a young engineer they must first know about your organization.
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U.S. Senate Recognizes Biomass Energy Carbon Benefits
In late February Bob Cleaves, president of the Biomass Power Association, wrote the following commentary on the current level of U.S. government support of biomass for energy.
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The Evolving Role of the Mill Engineer
By Graeme Rodden This is an advance-look excerpt from the cover story of the March/April issue of Paper360°.
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Researchers Turn Paper Waste into Multi-Use Aerogels
A research team led by Assistant Professor Duong Hai Minh from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Faculty of Engineering, has achieved a world’s first by successfully converting paper waste into green cellulose aerogels that are non-toxic, ultralight, flexible, extremely strong, and water repellent.
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Is Your Pizza Box Trying to Kill You?
By Jan Bottiglieri, Editorial Director, Paper360° On the last day of 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a notification titled “Update on Perfluorinated Grease-proofing Agents.” The FDA also published a press release with the headline “FDA Revokes Food Additive Approval for the Use of Long-Chain Perfluorinated Compounds as Oil and Water Repellents for Paper Used in Food Packaging.”
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Prospect of New Caribou Plan a Major Concern in Rural Quebec
Some environmentalist groups suggest that forestry activities in Quebec, Canada, should be considerably reduced—a measure that would threaten thousands of jobs in this industry, according to a new short documentary produced by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) in the North Shore region. In November 2015, the VP of the MEI, Jasmin Guénette, met with forest engineers, mill workers, and others on the ground in Baie-Comeau to give a voice to those who make their living from the forest.
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What is the future of BHK production in China?
By Kurt Schaefer, VP Fiber, RISI There have been so many changes to the economic and industry outlook for China since 2012, when RISI published the first edition of its in-depth outlook for China,
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Pulp in a Frenzy
Growth, inflation and uncertainly mark the industry’s global outlook; but markets should loosen in early 2018, according to this article from the forthcoming January/February issue of Paper360°. The article is excerpted here as a “sneak peek” for Ahead of the Curve readers.