Let's recycle toilet paper! Part 1There was some interesting debate going on. American "soft" toilet tissue seems to be a problem to some people in the US...
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Let's recycle toilet paper! Part 2Toilet paper may not be the sexiest environmental issue, but it really is one of the most important considering the manufacturing of that product causes deforestation, which causes more global warming pollution than all the combined emissions of cars, trucks, buses, airplanes and ships in the ent
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Vietnam P&P production up!
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A new pulp mill in Uruguay?
May 18, 2009 - Stora Enso and Arauco have signed a definitive purchase agreement with the Spanish pulp producer Grupo ENCE for the joint acquisition on a 50/50 basis of approximately 130,000 hectares of owned land and plantations, 6 000 hectares of leased lands and other operations owned by Grupo ENCE in the central and western areas of Uruguay.
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Record losses of Global Forest Products Industry in 2008TORONTO, June 24 /CNW/ - The Top 100 Forest, Paper and Packaging (FPP) companies from around the world saw net income tumble from positive $13.8 billion in 2007 to record losses of $8.0 billion in 2008, the first time this metric has been negative since 1996, the date PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) began the annual PwC Global Forest, Paper & Packaging Industry Survey. This year's survey shows that:
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A new pulpmill in Western Europe!SCA Ortviken’s new pulp plant inaugurated
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Higher pulp prices in July 200929.6.2009: For the second consecutive month, pulp producers are taking advantage of tighter supply conditions, if not better demand, and are seeking price hikes worldwide. For July, increases have been announced for softwood and hardwoods for North America, Europe and China/Asia. The hikes are generally $20-$30/tonne, but a $20-$40 increases for North American NBSK would put the list at $700.
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European Paper & Board consumption minus in 1Q 09Paper and board deliveries by CEPI countries were 21.7 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2009 as demand continues to be affected by the economic situation
Consumption and trade in paper and board contracted further during the first quarter of 2009 as the global economic downturn continued to affect the industry. Consumption was at its lowest quarterly level since 2003 and total exports fell below 3 million tonnes in a quarter for the first time since this report was introduced.
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China stimulus plans to push global Pulp&Paper?
LONDON, Jul. 23, 2009 (RISI) - Recent weeks have seen the first signs of a hoped-for trickle down effect on the pulp and paper industry from China's massive economic stimulus package.
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Kimberly-Clark commits to use 40% of FSC certified fibre by the end of 2011OTTAWA - The environmental group Greenpeace has ended its long campaign against Kimberly-Clark after the Kleenex maker agreed to change its forestry practices.
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Fibre costs were 53% of the total pulp production costs
The largest cost component when manufacturing wood pulp is the cost of wood fiber. In the 1Q/09, this cost was 53% of the total production cost worldwide. Both the relative and nominal cost of wood have declined the past year; wood fiber costs in the 2Q/09 were at their lowest levels in over two years, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.
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Imports of timber and pulp to China increasesWood Resource Quarterly has reported that imports of logs, lumber and pulp to China increased substantially in the second quarter of 2009 as the country’s economy grew by almost 8%.
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Son of Black Liquor: A $50 Billion Loophole for the U.S. Pulp and Paper IndustryFor the second time in a year, the U.S. pulp and paper industry has hijacked a multi-billion dollar federal program that was supposed to promote new biofuels.
What's being called Son of Black Liquor dwarfs the original black-liquor loophole that created such a stir in Congress and among Canadian officials earlier this year.
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US-Black Liquor subsidies are history - what's now?The huge black-liquor subsidy of pulp mills expired last week, but that isn’t stopping the U.S. forest-products industry from tapping taxpayers' money in other ways.
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PULP Hedging: Give it a try
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Chilean earthquake could cause pulp supply crisis and escalating pricesThe Chilean earthquake and resultant reduction in pulp supply comes at a time when pulp markets are already very tight with Chinese customers on allocation. The immediate impact is likely to be higher pulp prices leading to higher paper prices. NBSK pulp prices are already at US$890/tonne.
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Chile quake may cut forestry pulp exports 15 pct-reportSANTIAGO, March 9 (Reuters) - Chile's key forestry sector may see exports fall by around 15 percent this year after a giant earthquake destroyed processing plants, an industry executive told the daily Diario Financiero.
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Chile earthquake boosts pulp pricesThe Feb. 27 Chilean earthquake did enough damage to that country's forest products industry to spark global shortages that are pushing prices higher in Canada.
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Chile: To suffer from earthquake - forest products industry hit hardest
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How will extended elevated pulp prices affect the North American graphic paper market?
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Mondi to boost SA unit’s pulp exports to EuropePaper and pulp manufacturer Mondi plans to increase its South African business' primary exports of pulp to Europe and to ultimately shift the unit's focus away from paper exports to that market, it said on Thursday.
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What, Exactly, Is Black Liquor? Just Ask the Tax ManIf you want to understand that once-obscure, now infamous pulp byproduct known as black liquor, you can turn to an unlikely source –- the lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service.
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SCA and SAPPI to join forces in pulp procurementMay 21 2010 SCA and Sappi have announced their commitment to work together in pulp procurement in Europe.
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Groundwood Paper Greenhouse Gas Footprint Much Lower Than Freesheet PaperUncoated groundwood paper (such as newsprint, are made from mechanically ground wood pulp that contains impurities - i.e., everything that nature puts into the tree) has less than half the carbon footprint of uncoated freesheet paper (which are made from pulp that is "cooked" and chemically treated to leave them free of impurities) with the same purpose, a recent study by Canadian researchers suggests.
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IRS Brings Son of Black Liquor Back From the DeadThe Internal Revenue Service may have handed U.S. pulp and paper companies a multibillion-dollar gift by ruling that black liquor produced in 2009 is eligible for an even more lucrative tax credit than the one claimed by manufacturers last year.
The June 28 ruling contradicts previous guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency that the molasses-like pulp byproduct could not qualify for Cellulosic Biofuel Producer Credits (CBPC) because it is not a motor-vehicle fuel or fuel additive. The new IRS ruling does not allow the same black liquor to receive both the original black liquor credits ("alternative fuel mixture") and CBPCs, the so-called Son of Black Liquor tax credits.
The exact impact of the ruling is unclear, but in theory it is be worth more than $10 billion to U.S. companies.
Publicly traded U.S. companies received more than $6.5 billion in black liquor tax credits last year by exploiting a loophole in legislation designed to subsidize "green" fuels. Privately held companies probably qualified for at least another $2 billion.
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Green toilet paper that is kind to your backsideEvery flush of your loo affects our environment and while low-flush toilets have helped some households save 35000 litres of water a year, it took an Eastern Suburbs man to tackle the toilet-paper dilemma.
Saved A Tree co-founder Damien Scarf, a Vaucluse resident, said global toilet-paper use destroys 27,000 trees every day but his company had found a way to make a loo roll without it costing the earth.
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Recycling Doesn’t Save TreesYep. That’s right. Recycling doesn’t save trees.
That’s the position of Roger Dziengelski, a Certified Forester and VP of Continuous Improvement and External Operations for Finch Paper, LLC in upstate New York.
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Paper companies eye another serving of black liquor tax benefitsPulp mills may be getting back on the black liquor gravy train.
Paper and pulp makers, including a number of mills in southwest Alabama, collected $8 billion or more last year in federal cash and tax credits by doing what they've done for decades -- burning the carbon-rich leftovers from the pulp-making process to fuel their mills.
The liquid, known as black liquor, was declared eligible for alternative fuel tax credits if mill operators mixed in a little diesel fuel.
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WWF’s announcement misleads users regarding true facts about sustainable forestry and print
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Brazil's Eldorado starts work on world's biggest pulp mill, also considers integrated tissue plant TRÊS LAGOAS, June 22, 2010 (PPI Latin America) - The city of Três Lagoas in the Brazilian Midwest has definitely made its mark on the pulp and paper industry map with a project that will make it the largest pulp producer in the world.
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Exports of pulp from Indonesia should gain momentum in coming monthsExports of pulp from Indonesia should gain momentum in coming months, adding further instability to the market. The increased supply of raw materials from Indonesia, mainly to Chinese customers, due to local government approval for the planting of forests in new areas, can lead to higher capacity utilization of factories. There is a new factory, in Kerinci (Sumatra), which should start producing 850 000 tones.
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Increased produced pulp in BrazilIn 2010, the Brazilian pulp industry - Fibria and Suzano Papel e Celulose a global producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp produced 14 million tons of pulp, 9.8 million tons of paper and export revenues of U.S. $ 6.7 billion according to Bracelpa (Brazilian Association of Pulp and Paper).
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Two Sides reports anti-Greenwash success18 January 2011, London, UK – Two Sides has achieved measurable success from its national campaign to educate major UK corporate companies such as Banks & Building Societies, Utilities and Telecoms about using misleading or factually incorrect environmental claims in their marketing message to promote lower cost electronic billing and services.
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Prospects generally improving for the world pulp and paper industry in 2011
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Södra raises softwood pulp price to USD 980 per tonne
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The world's first pilot plant for production of nanocellulose inaugurated
Stockholm, Sweden, Feb 25, 2011 - The world's first pilot plant to produce nanocellulose was inaugurated yesterday by research company Innventia in Stockholm. The facility makes it possible to produced nanocellulose on a large scale for the first time and is an important step towards the industrialisation of a new energy efficient manufacturing process.
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Södra report - strong pulp market
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Lenzing Expects Better Performance In 2011 Than Originally Forecast
Munich, Vienna, May 06, 2011 - In the first quarter of 2011, the Lenzing Group, a world market leader for man-made cellulose fibers, was able to increase its consolidated sales by 46 % to EUR 532.1 million compared to the same period in the previous year (Q1 2010*: EUR 365.0 million). The increase in EBITDA of 66 % to EUR 114.9 million (Q1 2010*: EUR 69.3 million) was even more pronounced.
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Pulpwood prices in Western US were up almost 50 percent
Pulpwood prices in Western US were up almost 50 percent in 2Q/11 compared to 2Q/10, while wood prices were unchanged in the US South, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review.
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New nano material developed from wood and straw pulp is stronger than steelIt’s super strong, it’s green and it’s providing new opportunities for business in Alberta. It’s called nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) and Alberta is about to become a leader in its production and study.
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The total stocks of paper indicates that mass market have faced a major price correction. Analyst comments from the Newsagency Direkt is refered in an in the Swedish business magazine Dagens Industri.
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Södra’s new sawmill offers pulp benefitsSödra’s new Värö sawmill was inaugurated this week by Swedish Minister for Trade, Ewa Björling. A key part of the project is the location of the new sawmill adjacent to Södra’s Värö pulp mill.
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Higher wood fiber costs and lower pulp pricesGlobal hardwood pulp producers face higher wood fiber costs and lower pulp prices, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. Profit margins are being squeezed for many hardwood pulp producers worldwide with higher wood fiber costs and lower product prices.
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In 2011, Ilim Group Produced Nearly 1.5 mln Tons of P&P Products in SiberiaOver the 12 months of 2011, OJSC Ilim Group’s mills in Siberia (the Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk mills) manufactured 1,490,000 tons of pulp and paper products. This is 1.5% above the 2010 performance.
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Profitless prosperity in the viscose pulp marketWorld demand for viscose pulp is growing at a rapid pace, led by the expansion of viscose staple fiber production in China.
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Looking at the future of celluloseIf you're a pulp supplier in it for the long term these days, there's no standing still. It's been clear for a while that real demand in traditional end-use markets such as graphic papers is not going in our favour and we'd be foolish to think that's going to change.
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Ford investigating using cellulose in their plastic componentsFord is investigating using cellulose in vehicle components to help further reduce the automaker’s reliance on traditional content such as fiberglass and petroleum.
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Mondi Syktyvkar Awarded EU Ecolabel for All Uncoated Fine Papers Produced at the MillMondi Syktyvkar in Komi, Russia was recently awarded the EU Ecolabel for all papers produced at the mill. The EU Ecolabel is a certificate issued by the European Union, which verifies the environmental profile of a product or service.
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