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Heads-Up
The Big Money in the Industry. This is not about annual financials, record sales or jumbo contracts. It's about deals made in buying, selling, merging or closing of companies, and the big money it takes to do so.

Market Grade
COATED FREESHEET. A surge of imports in 2006 led to lower shipments by domestic mills and some price slippage despite increased demand. Demand in 2007 is expected to be sluggish, but the impact of proposed duties on Asian paper imports make it particularly difficult to predict the direction of prices.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Note
Primed for the Summer. With gas prices headed for all-time highs this summer, I'm sure you'll feel better knowing exactly who is getting what every time you fill your tank.

FEATURES

Growing Ilim Pulp
Ilim Pulp has some good things going for it-the adoption of a new Forest Code in Russia, a joint venture with IP, growing domestic and regional demand for its products, the Russian government's recent embrace of the country's forest products industry; and most of all, Zakhar Smushkin.

Not Just Hot Air
For decades, steamboxes have been paper mill essentials because they allow wet end presses to produce a dryer, hotter sheet. With newer units offering improved performance features and compact designs, a decision to upgrade from an older model may make sound financial sense.

Mill Risk Assessment
Fisher International says using cash costs, technical age and size ranking, combined with signal detection theory, make it possible to identify which mills and machines are sending out distress signals, giving buyers and sellers of market pulp a better chance to plan for the future.