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Editor's Note
Sustaining Capacity Management. Editor-in-Chief, Jack O'Brien, applauds the newsprint makers for gaining control over capacity. However, caution must be excercised regarding future pricing. view article

David Price
"It's a Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (Bob Dylan). We are linked, umbilically, to the printing and publishing sectors. What are their prospects? If they go under and we can't sell our paper, the paper machines stop running and the trees remain standing. Here are a few thoughts.view article

Sally Love
Will You Keep Your Resolutions This Year? A positive attitude is a must if you're going to see those New Year's resolutions through to fruition. view article

John Yolton
Maintenance Worker Value Add. Downsizing is part of the plan to get your maintenance staff down to fighting weight. But if too many pounds are shed, your fighter may lose his punch. view article

Johnsonburg Mill Installs Single Nip Shoe Press
Willamette's Johnsonburg, Pa., mill replaces a conventional three-nip SymPress roll press with the world's first single SymBelt shoe nip press. view article

The Supply/Value Chain and Benchmarking
A comprehensive look at the practice of benchmarking to systematically improve a manufacturing facility's performance and move the producer toward goals known to be attainable. Benchmarking can provide a paper producer or converter with a method to differentiate himself from his competition by developing facts and data that demonstrate his capabilities to his customers.
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Optimizing White Water System Design
In recent years, pulp and paper manufacturers have faced additional constraints to modernization, namely, the raw water availability and limitations on wastewater discharge. This paper discusses the principles and methods in closure of white water systems and highlights the advantages.
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Remembering "Hattie" Hatteberg, A Papermaker's Papermaker
As the paper industry expanded in the early 1900's, many papermakers traveled from mill to mill, taking advantage of the opportunities that came with each machine startup. "Hattie" Hatteberg was one such "Hobo" papermaker, and as luck would have it, made the acquaintance of a fellow Hobo papermaker, the late, great Carl Plumlee. view article

ebusiness and the Pulp & Paper Industry
An overview of some of the key areas that pulp & paper makers must be aware of and embrace to succeed as an eBusiness-enabled enterprise. view article