Commercial printing industry news briefs, including items Vertis, RR Donnelley, Böwe Bell + Howell, SourceLink, American Litho, Berlin Industries, MSP Digital Marketing, Domtar Corp., Tigner Printing and Mercury Print Productions.
I’m officially tired of the noise about how paper is being replaced by e-Readers, iPads, and other electronic devices. Sure, some of print has already gone and more is going away forever, but that hardly means print is dead.
MONTREAL—Domtar Corp. announced that it will permanently shut down one of four paper machines at its Ashdown, AR, pulp and paper mill by July 1. This will reduce Domtar’s annual uncoated freesheet paper production capacity by approximately 125,000 short tons. The mill’s workforce will be reduced by approximately 110 employees.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ April 2011 edition.
Domtar Corp. will permanently shut down one of four paper machines at its Ashdown, AR, pulp and paper mill no later than July 1, 2011. The move will reduce its annual uncoated freesheet paper capacity by approximately 125,000 short tons.
Paper manufacturers have adopted several strategies to optimize coated and uncoated stocks for running on the emerging array of high-speed, continuous-feed, color inkjet presses. While some papers may need to be fine-tuned to run on individual brands of presses, an additional surface treatment may also be required with certain paper/press combinations, especially coated stocks.
Printing indusry environmental and sustainability news from Printing Impressions’ February 2011 edition, featuring the International Standards Organization new Working Group (WG), WG11.
NewPage Corp.’s decision to close its Whiting mill rattled central Wisconsin’s paper industry, but it doesn't mean other papermakers in the area will make similar moves. “If you’re working in a paper mill, it does give you pause, but at the same time you have to realize the mills closing are producing certain products in certain markets that are challenged,” said Jeffrey Landin, president of the Wisconsin Paper Council, an advocate for the industry.
That (coated paper) market has continued to decline as magazine circulation and print advertising continues to decrease, Landin said. Domtar's Rothschild mill
The criteria included a company’s environmental policies and initiatives, greenhouse-gas emissions and a reputation survey that polled academics, environmental officers and CEOs. Of the 500 companies measured, Domtar came in at #95, making it the only paper manufacturer in the top 100.
Sustainability and green printing news from Printing Impressions' November 2010 edition.
