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Digital transformation - Wikimedia Commons CAIRO -- 20 January 2022: In the framework of Egypt's measures to incorporate digital transformation concept in all state's departments and services, Port Said is [...]

With paper well placed to replace plastic as the de jure material of packaging, there is a struggle developing the workings of its new supply chains, as well as in [...]

With paper increasing its stake in the value chain of packaging, manufacturers are spying an opportunity to increase their size and competitiveness by innovating new and exciting types of material [...]

Summary: African governments are not doing enough to challenge illicit financial flows, say professors Carlos Lopes and Ricardo Soares de [...]

I f you write a book called 'The Honest Truth About Dishonesty', the last thing you want to be linked to is fake data. Yet a paper by Dan Ariely, [...]

The Society of Cosmetic Scientists (SCS) has issued a Call for Papers for the 32nd IFSCC Congress, which will be held in London from 19-22 September 2022. Scientists from all [...]

Koehler is a well-known name in the paper industry and world market leader for thermal paper. The company is now entering the market of flexible packaging papers. How did this [...]

Developed for anhydrous formulas, Cosmogen has launched a Paper Stick pack, made of 78% FSC paper. The pack features a patented rotative system, which requires the user to turn the [...]

Elon Musk's journey as owner of Twitter was fraught from the beginning. But, after seven months of negotiations and a lawsuit, he's now officially in charge of the microblogging platform [...]

Byline: Vince Bamford The paper products category has turned over a new leaf. Twelve months ago, prices were soaring and shoppers were opting for value ranges and own label lines. [...]

* For Q-3 2018-19, all of the participants expect their production to be more than that of same quarter last year. * The average capacity utilization of the sector is [...]

P oliticians' private finances are a big political issue in central Europe, as Andrej Babis well knows. Mr Babis, a billionaire who is prime minister of the Czech Republic, faces [...]

CAIRO -- 3 November 2021: Egypt officially introduced on Wednesday Egypt Health Passport, an app on Google Play that allows citizens to prove they were vaccinated against coronavirus before traveling [...]

Shell companies, tax havens and European politicians POLITICIANS' PRIVATE finances are a big political issue in central Europe, as Andrej Babis well knows. Mr Babis, a billionaire who is prime [...]

Bummer Looming price rises trigger a panic IN ANXIOUS times, political leaders try to assuage fears. So it was this week when William Lai, Taiwan's prime minister, appealed for calm [...]

Archaeological Al-Sennari House - TourEgypt CAIRO -- 24 August 2021: The archaeological Al-Sennari House will hold an art workshop for children entitled 'Paper Forming' on August 24 at 2 p.m. [...]

Labels specialist Avery Dennison has brought out rPaper Black FSC, a full black, core tinted and uncoated matte paper made from 100% recycled pulp. The pulp used is 50% PCW [...]

Last month, the government published its much-hyped Levelling Up White Paper. The paper set out 12 national missions the government plans to achieve by 2030, which it hopes will end [...]

Re-impose Customs Duty on Paper and Paperboard The domestic paper and paperboard industry has already made significant capital investments to ramp-up capacities, the gestation period is long and the economic [...]

Quarterly Assessment for the sector at a glance Production*****Exports*****Inventory*****Investment for Expansion*****Hiring Moderate*****Moderate*****Less than average level*****Moderate*****Negative * For Q-1 2018-19, 50% of the participants expect their production level to be same [...]

In the 45 years that Darwen-based Kenley Warehousing and Distribution has been operating, it has moved from repairing cars to storing and delivering envelopes, fizzy drinks, kitchen utensils, snooker tables [...]

The need for fast turnaround and short runs is causing a ripple effect in the converting industry--from paper and board innovation and manufacturing, down to the requirements on the part [...]

Sir, We commend Aldi's decision to swap plastic straws for a paper alternative on its ownlabel drinks. New UK and EU legislation for plastic straws coming into effect in July [...]

Hope is rapidly fading on the Town of Fort Frances ever seeing a return to production on its shuttered pulp and paper mill. But feisty Mayor June Caul feels a [...]

Absolut Vodka is trialling a protoype paper vodka bottle. Pernod Ricard has created a bottle made up of 57% paper and 43% recycled plastic, and has kicked off consumer trials [...]

Housing experts have given a mixed reaction to a planned legal requirement for social housing managers to take new qualifications, announced this week by housing secretary Michael Gove. The Department [...]

Water is an essential component in the paper manufacturing process, serving as the coolant and cleaning substance. A new water treatment plant was an important feature of the new paper [...]

The US' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken a significant step towards solving the age-old problem of tracing asbestos in talc-containing cosmetics. New guidance, published in a white paper, [...]

Byline: Rod Benham What was your first job? My first job was delivering papers - I had the longest evening paper round in Potters Bar! What was the first music [...]

Byline: Daniel Woolfson Smarties is moving its chocolate sharing blocks into recyclable paper wrappers. The Nestle brand, which plans to sell all of its products in paper by 2021, utilised [...]

Cushelle is rolling out its first paper-packaged loo rolls in a move it claims is a first for a major brand. Paper-packed Double Rolls hit the Co-op last week, ahead [...]

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2005.08.006 Byline: Rupesh Kumar Pati, Prem Vrat, Pradeep Kumar Keywords: Supply chain; Paper industry; Cost optimization; Indifference curve Abstract: Concerns for the environment has forced many firms define policies that protect the environment within which they operate. This paper presents a linear optimization model for paper industry to compare total system cost of wood as a raw material with recycling of waste paper. Objective of the proposed model is to minimize the cost of paper in the supply chain. Costs included in the objective functions are: costs for collection of raw material, transportation, inventory, manufacturing, segregation and disposal (during recycling). The model also includes the economic implications of using these alternative material sources on environment as well as quality of final product. To gain further insights into system behavior, sensitivity analysis, shortage analysis and indifference curve analysis have been performed. The analysis clearly reveals that the paper recycling is an economical option compared to wood as a raw material. The paper analysis highlights various strategies that could be followed under different market conditions. Author Affiliation: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, 247 667 Uttaranchal, India Article History: Received 3 November 2004; Accepted 24 August 2005

Concerns for the environment has forced many firms define policies that protect the environment within which they operate. This paper presents a linear optimization model for paper industry to compare total system cost of wood as a raw material with recycling of waste paper, Objective of the proposed model is to minimize the cost of paper in the supply chain. Costs included in the objective functions are: costs for collection of raw material, transportation, inventory, manufacturing, segregation and disposal (during recycling). The model also includes the economic implications of using these alternative material sources on environment as well as quality of final product. To gain further insights into system behavior, sensitivity analysis, shortage analysis and indifference curve analysis have been performed. The analysis clearly reveals that the paper recycling is an economical option compared to wood as a raw material. The paper analysis highlights various strategies that could be followed under different market conditions. Keywords: Supply chain; Paper industry; Cost optimization; Indifference curve

The UK used 12.7 million t of paper and board in 1999, against 9.7 million t in 1989, making it the world's fifth largest user of paper behind the US, China, Japan and Germany. The future of the UK paper industry is further discussed.

As a founding member of the IPC-2581 Consortium, the growing interest in the IPC-2581 format is exciting. Even more exciting is to see this intelligent format in use throughout the [...]

PUMPED STORAGE ACCOUNTS FOR over 94% of installed global energy storage capacity, rightfully deserving the accolade of being the world's 'water battery'. The existing 161.000MW of pumped storage capacity supports [...]

The global producer of dissolving wood pulp, speciality and packaging recently announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire the speciality paper business of Cham Paper Group Holding (CPG) [...]

Every sheet of paper has its own unique fingerprint A PIECE of paper is a complicated product. Trees are felled, stripped of their bark, chipped, mashed, and then mixed with [...]

A conversation between Youssef 'Ahmed Makki' and the officers loyal to the Brotherhood and who are trying to recruit him with him, where Yusef attended a religious study with them [...]

An official uses a thermal camera at the arrivals hall of Suvarnabhumi Airport as a measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Bangkok, Thailand January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Soe Zeya [...]

A precious commodity Legacies of old laws leave thousands of Zimbabweans stateless BOTSHIWE DUBE gave birth to all seven of her children at her home. This was not because she [...]

Tax- CC via The Blue Diamond Gallery CAIRO -- 10 March 2021: Egypt's Minister of Finance, Mohamed Maait, issued a decision to add a new paragraph to Article 38 of [...]

In its latest whitepaper, ABB reveals potential for significant energy efficiency improvements in industry and infrastructure enabled by the latest and most high-efficiency motors and variable speed drives. The company [...]

Current competitive conditions in the paper markets have forced the producers to look for new ways of reducing their inventory. However, too often the production planning and inventory management are decoupled activities. Coordination between these activities needs to be done in order to successfully decrease the inventories at hand, especially when considering the characteristics of a special business context, the paper making industry. Also, flexibility is of great importance in a production-distribution network. There is an ongoing debate about who should provide the flexibility and in what form. We believe that the flexibility should be in the form of flexible lead times towards the producer and not--as is the tradition--among the distributors. But even if such an agreement with the lead times is made, it is not trivially selfevident how to use the flexibility in the fight way in order to get an optimal improvement of operations. In this paper, two sets of mixed integer linear programming models with a fixed time-horizon will be presented: one combined production and inventory model (for the producer) with fixed lead times and one with flexible lead times. The models are solved with both an MILP-solver and a genetic algorithm. The data is obtained from a Nordic tissue producer in order to test the models and to quantify the effects of flexible lead-times on a producer's production and inventory costs. Keywords: Flexible lead times; Production-distribution optimization; MILP; Genetic algorithm

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2005.07.001 Byline: Hanen Bouchriha, Mustapha Ouhimmou, Sophie D'Amours Keywords: Capacitated lot sizing problem; Dynamic demand; Production cycle; Pulp and paper mill Abstract: In this paper, we address the problem of defining the production campaigns on a paper machine. Each campaign is of a fixed duration (cycle time) and produces batches (lot sizes) of all or a set of the products. This paper presents a real case study discussing a specific lot sizing problem where a predetermined production sequence must be maintained. We propose a new approach where we compute first the cycle time by assuming constant demand, and then lot sizes are determined for each product within each cycle in order to satisfy demand. Finally, studying the context of a Canadian paper maker, we evaluate the impact of planning production under a cycling manner. Author Affiliation: Network Organization Technology Research Centre (CENTOR) - FOR@C Research Consortium, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Universite Laval, Quebec City, Canada G1K-7P4 Article History: Received 23 December 2003; Accepted 5 July 2005

In this paper, we address the problem of defining the production campaigns on a paper machine. Each campaign is of a fixed duration (cycle time) and produces batches (lot sizes) of all or a set of the products. This paper presents a real case study discussing a specific lot sizing problem where a predetermined production sequence must be maintained. We propose a new approach where we compute first the cycle time by assuming constant demand, and then lot sizes are determined for each product within each cycle in order to satisfy demand. Finally, studying the context of a Canadian paper maker, we evaluate the impact of planning production under a cycling manner. Keywords: Capacitated lot sizing problem; Dynamic demand; Production cycle; Pulp and paper mill

GEA has added a new dimension of versatility to the PowerPak PLUS by making it possible to use a more sustainable paper-based packaging alternative with this technology. The GEA PowerPak [...]

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the rate and the impacts of technical change in the Swedish pulp and paper industry. In contrast to earlier research on this industry we replace the standard time trend with time-specific dummy variables enabling the estimation and decomposing of a general index of technical change. The analysis is made within a Translog cost function model, which is estimated using a panel data set with observations across individual paper and board mills over the time period 1974-1994. Our results indicate that the highest rates of technical change have generally occurred during the latter part of this period. Pure technical change is the primary component that has directed technical change over the entire time period. We also find evidence of non-neutral technical change. Energy use has been stimulated by technical improvements while labour use has been discouraged. Also, technical change has had wastepaper and woodpulp using impacts. However, the magnitudes of these latter impacts are relatively small, implying that the increase in wastepaper use during the last decades has mainly been stimulated by relative price changes. Keywords: Pulp and paper; Technical change; General index; Wastepaper; Translog cost function; Sweden

A report that aims at the market for toilet paper in the United Kingdom is presented where the market was divided into four main products such as standard, luxury, recycled and economy. It was observed that although the UK consumer took a greater interest in premium products, standard toilet paper still represented 75% of value sales in 2003 and saw steady growth over the review period, with 1.7% current value growth in 2003 over the previous year.

Art gloss papers continue to grow in popularity among the design fraternity, with new and innovative uses continuing to appear. Steve Brading, marketing manager for the commercial printing division at [...]