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Tissue manufacturing plant has recovered

Toscotec installs new tissue machine at Cartiera della Basilica

Global customers to benefit from merger

Better position to serve customers' evolving needs

Mill to restart after shut down

Company to produce brown and white testliner

Increase production capacity and improve energy efficiency

Production increased by 100%

Highly advanced, high-risk energy technologies

Strong sales confirm that this approach is appreciated in the industry

Enhances high quality standards

High capacity and speed produce high quality paper

Action aims to ensure the smooth operation of the plant

The most efficient linerboard mill I know uses one third the production labor per ton of production of its contemporary competitors. This is due to higher levels of automation, particularly in the materials handling areas. Its cost of maintenance labor is about the same as its contemporaries. However, for all mills, continued automation of specific tasks will eventually bring maintenance labor costs down, too. In society as a whole, automation is about to make dramatic changes to labor needs--not that this has not been going on since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Now, however, it is about to become very serious.

People often find out the hard way that deferred maintenance is the most expensive money one can save...

The PM40 closed Friday, 13 March 2015 at 3469.

16 Mar 15 Get the latest PM40 update by listening to the weekly Nips show by Pulp & Paper Radio International.

The PM40 closed 13 March 2015 up 4% from the 14 March 2014 level.

In this issue we evaluate Potlatch Corporation and Stora Enso OYJ.

Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

The Incredible Shrinking Toilet Tissue Roll

A high-quality asset with a team of talented employees

Australia manufactures about 0.6% of the world's uncoated freesheet (UFS) paper, an amount almost insignificant in the more than 53 million metric tons globally consumed each year. It was therefore surprising to see Australian Paper (owned by Nippon Paper) named and shamed as one of the companies accused of dumping into the US market.

Nanocellulose has potential to be used in a huge range of applications