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Four years ago, the Clinton Administration considered promulgating an executive order which would have required the federal government to purchase totally chlorine-free (TCF) paper to satisfy a small portion of [...]

For most of the nineteenth century Britain held an undisputed lead in the field of paper-machine technology. By the 1890s this lead had been lost to America. This article argues that Britain's loss of technological pre-eminence at this time had much more to do with the greater scale of the American market and the willingness of American manufacturers to embrace schemes that enhanced technological accumulation than it did to any protracted adherence to outdated and traditional practices that some British workers might have had. The article also outlines a general framework for the analysis of the rate of innovation achieved through learning., The relative economic decline of Britain since the last quarter of the nineteenth century has often been attributed to its firms' continued predilection for small-scale batch production and highly skilled [...]

Abstract Purpose--The purpose of this paper is to analyze the status of gross and net working capital and their association with sales of Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Ltd, with reference [...]

Can you imagine a pile of 150 million tons of waste paper? That is approximately the quantity the OECD countries generated in 1990, the largest amount ever. Compressed into bales, [...]

Keywords Cash; Currency suppression; Monetary policy; Demonetization Abstract We quantify the welfare effects of cash suppression policies within a general equilibrium model where cash reduces transactions costs and aids tax evasion in underground markets. In the model, currency suppression increases transactions costs and raises effective tax rates, but shifts resources out of costly underground markets and relaxes the government budget. When coupled with a reduction in distortionary taxes on consumption or factor inputs to ensure budget neutrality, cash suppression policies increase welfare in our baseline representative agent model. In a model with individual heterogeneity in cash use, suppression increases welfare for all, but by less for cash-intensive users. Author Affiliation: (a) Claremont McKenna College, United States of America (b) University of Georgia, United States of America (c) Colby College, United States of America * Corresponding author. Article History: Received 10 July 2020; Revised 25 May 2021; Accepted 25 May 2021 (footnote)[white star] We are grateful to Eric Sims and Julie Smith for helpful comments and seminar participants at the Banco Central del Uruguay, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colgate University, dECON-Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, UDELAR, University of Kentucky, Xavier University and participants at the 2018 Jornadas Anuales de Economía del Banco Central del Uruguay and the 2019 Midwest Macroeconomics Conference. Lastrapes acknowledges financial support from the University of Georgia's Bonbright Center for the Study of Regulation while working on this paper. The usual disclaimer applies. Byline: Julio Garín [jgarin@cmc.edu] (a), William D. Lastrapes [last@uga.edu] (b,*), Robert Lester [rblester@colby.edu] (c)

SAKARI HEIKKINEN, Paper for the World: The Finnish Paper Mills' Association: Finnpap, 1918-1996 (Helsinki: Otava Publishing Company, 2000. Pp.523; illus. H/back ISBN 951 1 16330 2, no price given). The [...]

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.03.027 Byline: Julia Kallrath, Steffen Rebennack, Josef Kallrath, Rudiger Kusche Abstract: acents We bridge research in optimization to real world cutting stock problems (CSPs). acents We develop two advanced column generation algorithms for 1D CSPs. acents We develop an Exhaustion Method for 1-CSPs with two criteria. acents We develop a sophisticated solution method for 2D-trim-loss minimization problems. acents We assemble a benchmark data set of 25 real world 1D cutting stock instances. Article History: Received 8 February 2013; Accepted 17 March 2014

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Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hebrard, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2012) AFTER A CHANCE DISCOVERY of a piece of [...]

Phnom Penh -- On a far-flung riverbank in southwest Cambodia last spring, Buth Ran peered out of her wooden stilt home to see a sagging barge unload a half-dozen logging [...]

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.10.019 Byline: Kazuki Matsumoto (a), Hiroyoshi Miwa (b), Toshihide Ibaraki (b) Keywords: Scheduling; Corrugated paper; Complexity; Contiguous set; Integer programming Abstract: Corrugated paper is produced by gluing three types of papers of the same breadth. Given a set of orders, we first assign each order to one of the standard breadths, and then sequence those assigned to each standard breadth so that they are continuously manufactured from the three rolls of the specified standard breadth equipped in the machine called corrugator. Here we are asked to achieve multi-goals of minimizing total length of roll papers, total loss of papers caused by the differences between standard breadths and real breadths of the orders, and the number of machine stops needed during production. We use integer programming to assign orders to standard breadths, and then develop a special purpose algorithm to sequence the orders assigned to each standard breadth. This is a first attempt to handle scheduling problems of the corrugator machine. Author Affiliation: (a) Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan (b) Department of Informatics, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, 2-1 Gakuen Sanda, Hyogo 669-1337, Japan Article History: Received 24 March 2007; Accepted 5 October 2007

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.08.033 Byline: Philip C. Jones, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann Keywords: OR in agriculture; Forest economics; Normal forest; Regulated forest; Newsvendor model; Forestry supply chain management Abstract: We consider a vertically integrated papermaking operation composed of an integrated pulp and paper mill with its regional supply network. Considering land procurement and harvest rotation as strategic decision variables, we construct a model to establish a long-range timber supply plan that minimizes the total discounted cost of meeting annual virgin wood fiber demand over an infinite horizon. Under appropriate assumptions on costs and storage, the land procurement and harvest rotation decisions are separable with harvest rotation being determined via a forest economics-type equation and land procurement being determined by a newsvendor-type equation. Author Affiliation: Department of Management Sciences, 108 John Pappajohn Business Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994, United States Article History: Received 18 January 2006; Accepted 24 August 2007

Timothy J. Minchin, The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2001) IN THE COLOR OF [...]

AMIDST THE ECONOMIC crisis of 2009 and the loss of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs, one key strategic challenge for Canadian labour is how to hold the line and [...]

J. Meijaard, M.J. Brand and M. Mosselman (2001), `Organisational Structures in SMEs: Occurrence and Clusters', paper presented to the 15th RENT Conference, Turku, November. J. Maes, L. Sels and F. [...]

A container loading software package for solving the different problems involved in the containerization of pulp and paper products is presented. The software boasts of a packing algorithm for creating a two-dimensional pattern for placing reels on the floor of container, a heuristic algorithm for two-dimensional stowing of reels of a common diameter and a second packing algorithm for stowing pallets of various sizes. Its applicability has been validated in several decision situations which include the determination of feasible reel diameters and efficient stowage patterns.

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.10.035 Byline: Gabriel Sauvageau, Jean-Marc Frayret Abstract: * We propose an agent-based model of a two-echelon recycled pulp supply chain. * Extensive simulation experiments are based on industrial data from a partner. * We examine how Production Flexibility impacts cost, quality and inventory level. * We examine how contract flexibility impact cost, quality and inventory level. Author Affiliation: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Departement de mathematiques et genie industriel, 2500, chemin de Polytechnique, Montreal, H3T 1J4, Canada Article History: Received 2 October 2013; Accepted 17 October 2014

KATHARINE BLIGH, (London: The Stationery Office, 1997. Pp.xiii + 149. ISBN 0 10 850673 8, £45). William Aitken, better known by his title as (1st) Lord Beaverbrook, was one of [...]

CHASTON'S PAPER CONSIDERS THE application of the Danish Technology Institute's networking project (DTINP) in a UK context. The paper starts by suggesting that the DTINP is premised on the notion [...]

The world is losing its forests, and fast. Three quarters of the earth's land mass were once covered with forests. Half of those forests have already been destroyed or converted [...]