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1 week ago | 
paper360.tappi.org | Leslee Masters
Lubrication Engineers, Inc. (“LE”), a leading developer andmanufacturer of high-performance industrial lubricants and asset reliability solutions, todayannounced that it has acquired RSC Bio Solutions (“RSC”), a leading innovator of high-performance,sustainable, biodegradable lubrication solutions.
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1 week ago | 
paper360.tappi.org | Leslee Masters
Cascades is proud to announce that for the sixth year in a row, it has been ranked one of the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations by Corporate Knights, a media, research and financial information company. Once again, Cascades was awarded the top position among organizations in the Containers and Packaging sector, in addition to being ranked 59th worldwide.
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2 weeks ago | 
paper360.tappi.org | Leslee Masters
Digital printing on Domino’s X630i corrugated box printing press. Environmental sustainability is increasingly a board-level agenda, with supply chain sustainability—including the impact of printing—a key factor for manufacturers and brands. The impact of this scrutiny extends to suppliers, who in turn must be able to demonstrate their efforts to reduce their environmental impact.
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2 weeks ago | 
paper360.tappi.org | Leslee Masters
In the competitive tissue paper industry, success hinges on the ability to navigate fluctuating demand, manage tight production schedules, and optimize supply chain operations. Medium-sized manufacturers, in particular, face the dual pressures of maintaining profitability while meeting the evolving expectations of customers and stakeholders. At the heart of these challenges lies demand planning—a critical process that influences everything from production efficiency to customer satisfaction.
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2 weeks ago | 
paper360.tappi.org | Leslee Masters
Join us for a year-long salute to the members and volunteers, past and present, who have helped shape the global sustainable forest products industry. For 110 years, TAPPI has focused on helping members solve problems, connect, and learn from other professionals while amplifying their voices within the industry. It all goes back to our start in 1915, when 30 enterprising papermakers gathered to form a new technical arm of the American Paper & Pulp Association (APPA).
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2 weeks ago | 
paper360.tappi.org | Leslee Masters
In the face of growing demand for fiber-based packaging, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has created the Energy First initiative, designed to address the challenges of energy and resource consumption in the forestry and textile industry. Energy First will pioneer low-carbon, water-efficient technology with the potential to reduce water consumption by up to 90 percent and overall energy consumption by more than half.
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2 weeks ago | 
paper360.tappi.org | Leslee Masters
Gulf Paper Manufacturing and Toscotec started up PM2 after a forming section upgrade at their Mina Abdullah facility in Kuwait. The successful completion of this rebuild marks a new important stepping stone in the cooperation between the two companies, after Toscotec performed a major dryer section rebuild of Gulf Paper’s packaging paper machine in 2019.
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2 weeks ago | 
paper360.tappi.org | Leslee Masters
Voith Paper, a leading full-line supplier oftechnologies and services for the paper industry, has received an order tomodernize PM 1 at Matías Gomá Tomás in La Riba, Spain. On PM 1,Matías Gomá Tomás produces 100 percent recycled containerboard on awire width of 5,150 mm. The aim of the rebuild is to improve paper qualityand increase production capacity from the current 100,000 tons to 110,000tons per year. Start-up after the rebuild is scheduled for the fourth quarterof 2025.
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3 weeks ago | 
paper360.tappi.org | Leslee Masters
The “Earplug Theory” first came to mind after I’d spent about 30 years in the paper industry. I created the document and saved it on my laptop for a year before sharing it with anyone. I was a little concerned this was out of my league—more of an editorial than a technical article. It may have annoyed some people. Eventually, I sent it to my good friend Floyd Lathbury, a former mill superintendent and corporate papermaking specialist at the Temple-Inland (now International Paper) mill in Rome, GA.
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4 weeks ago | 
paper360.tappi.org | Leslee Masters
Paper, board, pulp, and tissue manufacturers are faced with the challenge of reducing their production costs while producing in an environmentally friendly and resource-saving manner. But is it possible to conserve resources and the environment while reducing production costs? Yes. The IBS Group has been helping customers achieve these targets for decades.
