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Reports on the impact of the increased paper prices on businesses in the United States. Ways of adjusting to the rise in paper prices; Benefit of the increases for paper producers and recyclers; Effect of the rise in the cost of newsprint on publications.

Metropolitan Paper builds up on technology and the little things. Late last year, the company fired up a new, $7 million, state-of-the-art paper recycling mill and is sorting more scrap paper and cardboard than ever. Not only will Metropolitan swiftly dispatch employees for tasks as minor as replacing broken wheels on the company's dumpsters, but its chief executive hands his customers his personal cell phone number in case of any problems. That strategy has paid off handsomely for Metropolitan. Stefanie Feldman, program director of the NY Waste Match Program, a nonprofit that encourages recycling, says that these days, waste cardboard is actually being stolen off the street.

The article focuses on the rising costs of paper. Magazine publishers are dealing with numerous rising costs, including technology investments, postage, editors, and paper. Due to the weakness of the American dollar, publishers' overseas options are increasingly being restricted. In 2007, paper is emerging from an era of rising and falling prices. Coupled with structural changes, including mergers and a growing role for private equity, prices will continue to increase into 2008.

Forecasts the increase in paper prices in 1996. Percentage increase of paper prices since mid-1994; Comments of Sherman Chao, a paper industry analyst at Merrill Lynch; Reasons for paper mills' financial losses in the early 1990s.

Reports on the marketing strategies of catalogers to deal with the paper price hike. Analysis of the situation by Bill Dean, managing director of Bruce, Dean & Co., a San Francisco-based catalog consultant; Note on the effect of the paper cost hike on leading catalogers like Dodgeville, Wisconsin-based Lands' End, the Minnetonka, based in Minnesota and others.

Reports on the effect of the paper price hike brought on by worldwide demand for paper, on the newspaper and magazine publishing in the United States. Paper mills that have announced price hikes effective September 1, 1995; Times Mirror Co.'s move to merge the `Evening Sun' into the revamped morning Sun'; Price hike in magazines; Advertisement rate hikes planned; Factors that could keep paper prices high.

Reports on the decline of paper for newsprint, packaging and magazines for 1995. Expectations of stabilization; Price pulp paper reached in 1995; Drop in pulp paper prices for January 1995; Comments from Doug Murray, controller of IPMC Incorporated.

Reports the hike in paper prices and its impact on the industries like newspaper publishing and fast food purveyors. Reasons for the hike; Price forecast for the years 1996 and 1997; Other obstacles faced by the paper industry; Various measures being considered by the newsprint consumers in light of the hike.

Reports on the increase in paper prices expected in 1995. Supply; Coping efforts of companies; Publishers and newspapers.

Reports on packaging companies' move to resort to alternative packaging materials in search of ways to curtail increasing paper costs. Changes in business operations of Chicago, Illinois companies; Added load imposed by the US Postal Service's move of increasing rates on most classes of mail; Action by the Federal Reserve Board.

The article presents expert opinion of preventing paper cuts when handling piles of documents. Align sheets as closely as possible. "It's the sheets sticking out that are going to get you," says Chris Burke, a partner and 35-year veteran at Chicago-based Salsedo Press Inc. He suggests pinching each side between your thumb and forefinger and giving the bottom edge a good whack against a hard surface.

Focuses on the reduction of paper use to improve corporate productivity in the U.S. Organization of reference materials; Division of documents into action-oriented categories; Standard of a good filing system.

Reports use of multicolored papers in the issuance of building permits in Chicago, Illinois. Description of the paper used for building permits; Significance of paper size and color; Efforts in automating and accelerating permitting system; Reduction on the length of time needed to review a building permit.

Reports on the prediction of John Maine, vice president for printing and writing papers at Resource Information Systems, that there will be no further increases in paper prices for 1996. Features of the prediction during the American Magazine Conference for 1995; Reaction to the prediction; Background on the rise in paper prices.

Editorial. Focuses on the impact on the advertising industry of the rising costs of paper. Strategies by direct marketers.

This article focuses on the utilization of recycled paper by Advertising Age effective with its June 28, 1993 issue. The 40-pound recycled paper stock provides readers and advertisers with the same, previous high-quality production standards and meets current industry and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requirements for recycled paper. Though the paper will cost more to buy and mail, Advertising Age publisher Ed Erhardt said the investment will pay off in the long run. The move coincides with an Advertising Age-sponsored environmental conference on June 30, 1993 at the United Nations. Speakers at the conference, on Business & the Environment: Partnerships for Profit & sustainability, include executives from Procter & Gamble Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Coca-Cola Co.

This article reports on the use of different approaches by school supplies manufacturer Mead Corp. when advertising virtually the same line of school binders and papers to boys and girls, in the U.S. in 1993.