The Vertical Screw Thickener has been operating successfully since the beginning of December 2018 and supplying the existing MG paper production line PM2 with the maximum capacity of 360 t/d.

From management to the mill floor, everyone has heard the buzzwords: Big Data. Cloud-based computing. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Data analytics. Advanced control systems. Industry 4.0. Yet these are no longer buzzwords—they’re a competitive reality in the pulp, paper, and packaging industries.

PaperCon 2019 Keynote; Paper360°/PIMA Executive Panel

The new plant will generate energy by using biomass from eucalyptus stumps and roots as raw material and will have a capacity to produce around 50 MW of electrical energy for the national grid.

The Advance series lowers resource use while improving sheet quality and reducing installation times.

Pulp energy: Honda's original high-octane turpentine.

Issues in today’s tissue industry are without a doubt causing disruption. How we respond to them is a reflection of different corporate mindsets that will impact the decisions business owners make.

Are you thinking about reorganizing by having maintenance report to operations? My advice to you is: “Bad idea.” Consider, instead, keeping your central maintenance organization and putting some of the hourly workers in specific work areas.

Did the early Macintosh itself actually reinvent and reinvigorate the use of ink-on-paper starting in the mid 1980s and going forward as far as into the early 2000s?

The papers summarized here are from the TAPPI Journal September 2018 issue, featuring special peer-reviewed content from PaperCon 2018; and the October 2018 issue. TAPPI Journal is an online publication of relevant and timely peer-reviewed research delivered via email and free to all TAPPI members. To receive TAPPI Journal, join TAPPI at www.tappi.org. SEPTEMBER MICROFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE Mineral/microfibrillated cellulose composite materials: ...