Paper or Papermaking

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: ...

Under Pesonen’s solid leadership, the Finnish giant continues to succeed in what it calls “the forest-based bioindustry.”

Cross Wrap Ltd.’s automatic bale dewiring machine helps the Sonoco Alcore Karhula core board mill in Kotka, Finland, improve safety and decrease manual labor.

Paper360° sat down with Pasi Laine, president and CEO of Valmet, to look at what seems like a bright future for all “renewable” industries.

Over its 170-year history, Domtar has seen a tremendous amount of growth and change. Today’s Domtar is unified, in part, by an unrelenting focus on safety.

RISI’s annual North American forest products outlook conference showed a strong industry—but some outside threats could pose a challenge.

In 1937, E.W. Samson, a physicist for the Hammermill Paper Company, wrote an article titled "Physics in the paper industry"1. In his introduction, he wrote: Without paper there would be few physicists and very little understood physics. Conversely, without physics there would be no paper, for paper making is fundamentally a physical process. And yet this great industry managed to wobble along for about two thousand years without the aid of the physicist, and without apparently missing him. It is a pointed question to ask, what can the physicist do for the paper industry?

Entrepreneurial owner Chen Jun brings together the best of Western papermaking technology with Chinese-made paper machines at Wuhan Golden Phoenix Paper, where most of the innovative systems come from Kadant. At Wuhan GPP, five paper machines—including the most recent, PM 8, which started up in early 2018—churn out fluting day and night, looked after by 800 workers who live beside the mill or close by. With 1,200,000 tons of fluting, Wuhan GPP is the leading producer in China for this grade.

PM/ECCM programs are poor and mill leaders are not fixing them, according to Tor Idhammar, of IDCON, Inc. Mills have often inherited a poor PM/ECCM program due to past cost reductions or just complacency, but even if the current mill staff didn’t create the situation, the situation still needs to be fixed. Idhammar explains how to identify whether your mill needs to improve its PM/ECCM and, if it does, where to begin that process.