PIMA's North American Papermaker articles

Recent articles from PIMA's North American Papermaker

PIMA honors paper industry leaders.
August 1, 2001... The Paper Industry Management Association (PIMA) recognized eight outstanding individuals at its 82nd Annual International Management Conference, held June 27-29 in Baltimore, Maryland at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel. JOHN DILLON HONORED AS EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR John Dillon,...

Myllykoski builds new PM near Cologne.
August 1, 2001... Finland's Myllykoski has decided to build its new newsprint machine in Hurth, near Cologne in northwestern Germany. The company earlier announced that it was looking at building the machine at its Mochenwangen mill in Baden-Wurttemberg, southern Germany, but had also said that if there were...

Gratkorn PM 11 passes half-million mtpy.
August 1, 2001... Sappi Gratkorn has raised the capacity of its record-breaking coated woodfree paper machine from 470,000 to 570,000 mtpy, following a Voith Paper rebuild dubbed ULTR@STAR. This consolidates the position of this line, not yet four years old, as the machine with the largest capacity in the...

All down, but Europe hit least hard.
August 1, 2001... In a tough first quarter of 2001, paper and board output fell in most of the world's major producer regions, but the faint light at the end of the tunnel for Europe is that at least it didn't do as badly as the others. While European output slipped by 0.6% overall, Japan suffered a -0.9%...

Transition time.
August 1, 2001... Alan Rooks, Editorial Director Every ending is a new beginning. That old saying is an apt description of the changes taking place at PIMA's Papermaker magazine. TAPPI has acquired the production rights to PIMA's Papermaker publications (see page 18 for details) and will merge them with...