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Sonoco-Alcore to increase prices for tubes & cores in Europe
(Belgium, Sept. 2, 2016) Sonoco-Alcore S.a.r.l. announced it will increase prices for paper-based tubes and cores by up to 8 percent, depending on product category, to all customers in Europe, effective from shipments beginning on October 1, 2016.
“The increase follows a recent rise in coreboard prices across Europe driven predominantly by higher raw material costs,” said Karsten Kemmerling, Director of Sales and Marketing - Tubes and Cores, Europe. “We continue to do all we can to maintain tight cost Read More...
Multimedia: Learn why corrugated looks better and is safer
(USA, Sept. 2016) The benefits of corrugated packaging.
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PulpEye delivered dynamic drainage analyzer to Solenis LLC
(August 24, 2016) Enables measurement of drainage conditions for different pulp mixtures, refining levels, chemicals and filler additives, etc.
Solenis LLC recently purchased Dynamic Drainage Analyzer (DDA) No. 100 from PulpEye. The DDA is a dynamic drainage tester which gives drainage values comparable to drainage in a wire section. The tester is used by paper and board producers as well as chemical and filler suppliers around the world. With the aid of the DDA, drainage conditions for different pulp mixtures, Read More...
Link: The Relative Advantages of Paper and Digital Media in Education
(USA, Sept. 2016) In the past decade, classrooms have begun to shift away from textbooks, notebooks, pens and pencils and toward electronic media. In college lecture halls, increasing numbers of students are taking notes on laptops, and in high school classrooms, teachers are incorporating computers and tablets into their lesson plans. While there are advantages to electronic media, a growing number of studies show that some educational goals are better achieved using traditional pen and paper methods. Thus, rather Read More...
Archroma launches a new concentrated OBA with reduced CO2 footprint
(Switzerland, June 29, 2016) Archroma, a global leader in color and specialty chemicals, has extended its range of cost-effective, concentrated optical brightening agents (OBAs) for printing and writing papers. The new urea-containing disulphonated OBA -- Leucophor® ACS liq -- is particularly suited for stock application and for use in coating formulations that contain PVOH, CMC or casein as a secondary binder.
Leucophor ACS liq is a newly developed chemistry that delivers a variety of benefits to papermakers worldwide. Archroma’s concentrated Read More...