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COLUMNS

Heads-Up
Responsible forest management practices are being obscured, big time, by the massive scale of illegal logging in developing countries. Our industry can help to nail them.

Market Grade
COATED FREE SHEET - Rising paper prices and higher postal costs continue to dampen demand growth in North America, but global outlook is much better.

Mulling it Over
There is a real “tide” rising today, especially in North America, that the paper industry could, with some timely, opportunistic, and fortuitous actions, easily take on to fortune.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Note
With costs soaring, paper companies are now turning capital investment dollars towards only their best mills.

Supplier Side
The industry should never lose sight of the possibility that it can find ways to produce a better product at less cost.

Viewpoint
Congress must stay focused on solving our nation's natural gas crisis.

FEATURES

Transforming a Giant
How International Paper's chairman and CEO, John Faraci, plans to make a big company “simply” better.

Global Investment Trends
Prospective trends in demand may favor investment in the emerging markets, but it does not entirely explain the disinvestment by North American paper producers.

Forest Biorefineries: Reality, Hype or Something in Between?
Existing chemical pulp mill infrastructures could be feasibly adapted to co-produce ethanol and other biorefinery fuel products from wood feedstocks.

Publications Paper Spotlight Focused On Lightweight Groundwood Grades
LWC, ultra-LWC, SC papers are being progressively substituted for coated free sheet grades in North America as postage rates and distribution costs rise.

A Changing Landescape
Albany International's chairman says industry suppliers face many of the same challenges as do the paper makers.