Friday, 03 December 2010 10:00
Go Paper. Grow Trees. Connects Healthy Forests with Paper Use
An awareness campaign entitled Go Paper. Grow Trees.(TM) gives consumers the facts on how using paper products makes a direct contribution to the health and growth of trees and the forests. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the…
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Wednesday, 01 December 2010 08:50
NewPage 'Ed' Series Gets Personal With Release of Awaited #14
NewPage Corporation today announced the release of Getting Personal, the fourteenth issue in its "Ed" series of educational brochures. This new issue points out how the world is connecting audiences at many different communication points, engaging them in very personal…
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Tuesday, 30 November 2010 10:00
Canfor Pulp Income Fund Announces $100 Million Green Transformation Program Project Approval
Canfor Pulp Income Fund has announced that Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership (the “Partnership”), in which the Fund has a 49.8% ownership, has received approval from the Canadian federal government for funding of its $100 million capital project to upgrade the…
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Wednesday, 24 November 2010 14:30
Verso Launches Renewable Energy Project at Bucksport Mill
Verso Paper Corp. (NYSE: VRS) announced today the launch of a $40 million Renewable Energy Project at its Bucksport, Maine mill. This project will provide a 43% increase in thermal energy production from renewable biomass at the Bucksport Mill and…
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010 06:30
AbitibiBowater Finalizes Canadian Pension Agreements
AbitibiBowater announces that, as part of its restructuring process, it had entered into agreements with the Government of Ontario related to funding relief in respect of the material aggregate solvency deficits in the registered pension plans the Company sponsors in…
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Monday, 22 November 2010 09:00
St. Marys Paper moves ahead with $175-million biomass co-gen plant
St. Marys Paper Corp. has signed a 10-year, 30-megawatt power-purchase agreement with the Ontario Power Authority for the electricity produced by a biomass-fueled co-generation plant to be built adjacent to the St. Marys Paper mill in Sault Ste. Marie. The…
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Friday, 12 November 2010 11:17
The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota Announces Recommendations for Minnesota’s Forestry Industry
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota announces the release of Minnesota’s Forest Biomass Value Chain: A System Dynamics Analysis. The paper is the result of a yearlong project involving over 100 experts in the forestry community to…
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Thursday, 11 November 2010 11:30
St. Marys Renewable Energy Corporation Announces Power-Purchase Agreement
St. Marys Renewable Energy Corporation has announced that a [ten-year] power-purchase agreement has been reached with the Ontario Power Authority. Under this agreement, the OPA will purchase the electricity produced by a bio-mass-fueled co-generation plant to be built by SMREC…
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Wednesday, 10 November 2010 10:00
NewPage Corporation Releases on Paper Episode Featuring REI
NewPage Corporation announced the upload of a new episode in the popular On Paper sustainability podcast series, featuring REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), a national outdoor retailer that provides quality outdoor gear and clothing. In this episode of On Paper, available…
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Wednesday, 10 November 2010 08:43
Fibria elected the most admired pulp and paper company in Brazil
For the second consecutive year, Fibria ranked first place in the Pulp and Paper industry in the survey "Most Admired Companies in Brazil", sponsored by CartaCapital magazine in partnership with Officina Sophia Consultants. The survey was carried out with about…
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Tuesday, 09 November 2010 11:30
Internet Technologies Will Lead To Kraft Pulp Decrease: Report
A new study conducted by Pira International – a worldwide authority on the packaging, paper and print industry supply chains – says the Internet and mobile computing-related technologies will have the strongest influence on the global pulp and paper industry…
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Tuesday, 02 November 2010 10:00
Buckeye Establishes $300 Million Senior Credit Facility
Buckeye Technologies Inc. has announced that it has established a new $300 million senior secured revolving credit facility. The maturity date on the new revolver is October 22, 2015, and the facility includes an increase option for an additional $100…
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Tuesday, 02 November 2010 09:30
St Marys Paper Corp. Announces Re-Start
Sault Ste Marie, ON: Announced at a joint press conference by David Orazietti, MPP and St Marys Paper Corp. officials has provided a much needed shot-in-the-arm to the local economy and forest industries. Following Mr. Orazietti’s announcement of support in…
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Tuesday, 02 November 2010 09:00
Port Hawkesbury Biomass Co-Generation Project Proceeding
Nova Scotia Power and NewPage Port Hawkesbury are proceeding with the 60-megawatt biomass co-generation facility recently approved by the Nova Scotia Utility & Review Board. The sale of certain mill assets is expected to close in the near term. Project…
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Friday, 29 October 2010 08:35
Georgia-Pacific Announces Locations for $500 Million Investments in Advanced papermaking Technology
Georgia-Pacific has announced that its mills in Port Hudson, La., and Crossett, Ark., have been selected as the locations for the company’s previously announced more than $500 million investments in advanced, proprietary tissue-papermaking technology. With the investments, each site will…
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