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Vision 2020 - Charting a bold and innovative future for Canada’s forest products industry

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) unveiled a new industry-led vision that outlines where the forest industry sees itself by the year 2020. Through its accompanying goals, the vision will challenge companies, governments and other part...

Appleton Papers and Hicks Acquisition Company II Agree to $675 Million Business Combination

Combined Company to Be Listed on Nasdaq - Appleton to Be Renamed Appvion- Transaction Will...

Kruger sends warning to unionized Corner Brook workers

The owner of Corner Brook Pulp and Paper has sent a strongly worded letter directly to its...

Fortress Paper announces first quarter 2012 results

Vancouver, British Columbia, May 14, 2012 – Fortress Paper Ltd. ("Fortress Paper" or the "...

Domtar's Chief Financial Officer wins "Aces of Finance" award

Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) today announced that its Senior Vice-President a...

Blogs

The wet end window of stability

Wet end controls: part two of a three part series

Wet end measurements and controls can help papermakers to stay in that window where sheet quality and runnability are at ...

Process

International Paper Announces 12 Voluntary Sustainability Goals To Be Achieved By 2020

MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- International Paper released its 2011 Sustainability Report that showcases the company's new suite of 12 voluntary sustainabi...

News

Resolute increases ownership of Fibrek to 74.56% and closes offer

AbitibiBowater Inc., doing business as Resolute Forest Products (NYSE: ABH) (TSX: ABH), today announced that it has taken up and accepted for payment 4,762,192 additional...

People

Pierre Lapointe, a passion for innovation

Pierre Lapointe has the white hair and serene attitude of a mature man. But after an hour spent at his office on Boulevard St Jean, Pointe Claire, it is obvious that appe...

Paper Advancement

Bioactive paper researchers and McMaster University team hunting for deadly bacteria

You can't see them, or smell them or taste them.

They can be in our water and in our food, multiplying so rapidly that conventional testing methods for detecting pathogens...

Paptac

UBC to Lead Future Workforce Program at PaperWeek 2013

The University of British Columbia, in collaboration with PAPTAC, will lead the Future Workorce Program at the 2013 edition of PaperWeek Canada. (www.paperweekcanada.ca)....