Paper or Papermaking

Paper360° visited Stora Enso Imatra Mills in Finland to see how a recent investment in smart warehousing is having a dramatic effect on improving logistics and production efficiencies in a demanding environment.

Cascades’ Greenpac Mill is a sustainable recycling operation that includes a modern, large linerboard machine.

Online liquor analysis and advanced controls stabilized the liquor conversion chain and increased white liquor active alkali by 3 percent; extra process visibility led to further improvements.

The first World BioEconomy Forum kicked off in Ruka, Finland, to highlight the emergence of the bioeconomy as a major and growing sector on the global industrial landscape.

Columbia Pulp is about to start up in eastern Washington using wheat straw as its furnish.

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

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.

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.”