Pulp and Paper Canada

Pulp and Paper Canada - July/August 2010

Features

Community rallies to save Eurocan mill
When a mill closes, how can citizens get it reopened? If the owner says it is not a viable business, why would someone else buy it? Where do you turn for advice, for manpower, for funding? The experience at Eurocan provides some insight.

IT TAKES A COMMUNITY EFFORT TO RE-OPEN A MILL

Nanocellulose steps up on stage
A one-tonne per day demonstration plant is in the works, and manufacturers are lining up to explore the potential of these tiny particles.

Pulp Growth Ain't Pulp Fiction
Dissolving pulp has solid future as a building block for rayon.

Departments

Technical Papers

On-Line Determination of Green-Liquor Reduction Efficiency and Total Titratable Alkali Using Fourier-Transform-NIR Spectrometry

Papridry™ -Continuous Operation of Two Pilot Units at Paprican

Reduction in Quality Variation in a Continuous Kamyr Using Model Predictive Control

Scanner Path as a Manipulatable Variable for Optimal Control and Diagnostics of CD Variations

Introducing a New Decision Tool Using MPC for the Production Line Evolution

Energy Analysis of a Canadian Kraft Pulp Mill

PAPTAC Abstracts

A Comparative Evaluation of Explosion Hazards in Chemical and Mechanical Pulp Bleaching Systems

Effect of Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp Enzyme Bleaching on Effluent Quality and Bio-Treatability

Industry News

Cold winter was hard on Alberta's mountain pine beetles, but threat of in-flight from B.C. remains

Restructured AbitibiBowater could emerge from creditor protection in October

CORRECTION

Cascades plans $10-million pulping line for OCC at East Angus

AbitibiBowater sells four closed mills

Smurfit-Stone completes restructuring

Creditor approval brings Terrace Bay Pulp closer to restart

Canadian forest industry and environmental groups sign world's largest conservation agreement

Canfor Pulp, PCT strike forest carbon offset deal

Stowe Woodward closes Canadian manufacturing facility

Fire puts Tembec Chetwynd out of commission for two weeks

Catalyst Paper pays tax bill in full to three of four municipalities

Cascades' latest clean sweep

People....

Aeration system cuts energy costs at Canfor's Taylor, B.C., pulp mill

Stops, starts, changes...

Million-dollar forest research program launched by Northern Pulp Nova Scotia

NB hands out Crown forest biomass to eight companies, primarily for co-generation

Green Transformation Fund

Editorial

Canada courted for its forests

Technology News

Direct Steam Injection Rapidly Heats Pulp Stock, Biomass

Powerful, Compact Low Consistency Refiner Uses Less Energy

Sensor Automates Surface Monitoring to Improve Paper and Board Printability

Urea-free Paper Brightener Produces High Whiteness Levels

Machine Vision Systems Ordered for High-Speed Paper Machines

Heavy-duty pulpwood grapples

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