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COLUMNS

Heads-Up
In Europe, paper producers are dealing with overcapacity and low-cost imports by closing mills, shutting old machines and restructuring their workforce. Sound familiar?

Market Grade
Market Pulp. The closure of cash-starved pulp mills in Canada started the ball moving and it's been rolling for all of 2006. Dwindling supplies and global demand growth have combined to produce one of the strongest pulp markets in years.

Mulling it Over
Too many times companies cut employees loose with little notice, leaving expended workers and their families out in the cold. Couldn't the process take into account the human factor? One company is doing just that.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Note
With demand growing in Eastern Europe and Asian for pulp, paper and board, will Russia allow its forest products industry the opportunity to supply the goods?

Of Interest
How much, and where, will paper demand grow in the years to come?

FEATURES

Forestry, Pulp and Paper in Russia
As the Russian economic boom enters its 8th year, prices for all forest products are strong, margins, for the larger players at least, are good, and if anything, the industry is now becoming supply-constrained. It appears that a national giant has re-awakened; one that the U.S. paper industry cannot afford to ignore.

Stickies Still a Critical Concern for Today's Recycling Plants
As the U.S. paper industry closes in on its 55% fiber recovery goal, contaminants in wastepaper streams are on the rise, making the need for effective stickies control more urgent than ever.