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Editor's Note
The Experience of a Lifetime - Valmet's "Press Survivors'" Tour. The trade press and journalists from around the world are treated to a rigorous, but enjoyable week visiting pulp and paper mills in Finland. view article

David Price
How Far Does Culture Travel. Globalization is becoming such a cliché that no one really understands, any longer, what it means. A Norwegian company, Norske Skog, has recently become a global player. The team managers are Norwegian, but the players are 11,000 nationals from 13 countries in five continents. Do they understand each other? view article

Sally Love
The Real Cause of Conflict...Not Getting What You Expected. Assumption can be the mother of many problems. Clear communication and specific details will help put everyone on the same page. view article

Fiberline Upgrade at Shotton Paper
Shotton Paper Company's second recycled fiberline, RCF 2, relies on the latest screening equipment to deal with variations in wastepaper quality as it enters the fiber stream. view article

Monitoring and Controlling Pulp Quality
New sensing concepts for online quality measurement, such as near-infrared sampling, allow faster, more frequent online pulp measurement throughout the fiberline. view article

Laser-induced Plasma Emission Spectroscopy of Paper Coatings
Laser-induced Plasma Emission Spectroscopy (LIPS) has recently been adapted and used as an analytical tool for determining coat weight, coating coverage, pigment composition and coating distribution of coated papers. This technology offers a means by which semi-quantitative elemental analysis of paper coatings and coat weight distributions can be obtained rapidly and at relatively low expense. view article

Failure to Plan is a Plan to....
Planners can have a huge impact on the financial performance of the mill, and the planning position should be filled with that thought in mind. view article

Bark/Sludge Firing and Meeting Ever Tighter Emission Limits
To overcome the limitations to bark/sludge firing and to improve bark boiler emissions, new techniques have been developed, including deep bed firing, external ash removal, tightly controlled undergrate and over-fire air, carbon re-feed, and water analog/air simulation flow modeling. view article