Paper or Papermaking

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.”

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?