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Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Why is a highly successful Chinese papermaking company now developing wind turbines? And what does this mean for the country’s sustainable development prospects? Zhou Xiaofang investigates the boom in renewables. Chinese tycoons are increasingly directing their investment into renewable power, and the Shandong Changxing Group, which is investing 5.5 billion yuan (US$807 million) in wind energy, is...
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Scotland's battered papermaking industry suffered yet another blow yesterday when the 135-year-old Curtis Fine Papers called in administrators, who made 180 redundant.
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biopact (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
RWE npower Cogen announces it plans to build a 45MW biomass power plant at a papermaking site in Glenrothes, Scotland. Using combined heat and power (CHP) systems, the £100 million (€126m/$200m) plant will save 250,000 tonnes of carbon emissions from the Tullis Russell papermill. It will provide steam and electricity for the papermill under a long-term contract, while two thirds of the generated electricity...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Ashland, the biggest U.S. chemical distributor, agreed to buy Hercules for $2.6 billion in cash and stock to double earnings and gain chemicals used in papermaking, water treatment and construction.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
NEW YORK & SHANDONG PROVINCE, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gulf Resources, Inc. (OTCBB: GFRE), a leading producer of bromine, crude salt and specialty chemicals in China, today announced that its
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adistantsoil.com (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Papermaking Exploration Center for Contemporary Printmaking Norwalk, CN June 18, 2008 - June 21, 2008 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. This hands-on workshop will introduce the basics of hand papermaking: western style sheet formation, couching, pressing, and drying. Consistency in sheet-making will also be discussed. Participants will use cotton and abaca, and learn how these [...]
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The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Robert Rauschenberg died Monday at the age of 82. He was best known as a visual artist, and within that area he worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage art, sculpture, papermaking, photography, and printmaking. But along with John Cage and Merce Cunningham, with whom he was a frequent collaborator early [...]
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Seattle Pos (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
Seattle-based DiscoverU, a continuing-education program that offered classes on river rafting, wine tasting, flirting, papermaking and other topics, shut its doors earlier this month.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
New Report Analyses the Huge Potential in China's Papermaking Industry DUBLIN, Ireland--()--Research and Markets () has announced the addition of China Papermaking Industry Report, 2007-2008 to their offering. The papermaking industry is still acknowledged as a sunrise industry in China and has massive potential market. Since 2007, with the continuous and rapid increase of the macro economy, the demand...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Wood and Paper industry is available in its catalogue.
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The Real Paul Jones (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
We used to say we were brothers or cousins when we could get away with it. Now John Dancy-Jones, teacher, papermaker, bookmaker (of the honest sort), artist and arts supporter, is featured in a long profile in the News and Observer. The article is good and long overdue. There are few like John D-J and [...]
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hrishikesh | 12/22/2007
Technical Textiles for the Papermaking Industry Technical textiles in the form of paper machine clothing are critical to the papermaking process. Such materials employ sophisticated woven and nonwoven constructions. Increasingly important are advanced lamination techniques which ensure seamless high-speed production. The manufacture of paper machine clothing requires large-scale machinery. Weaving
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Label & Narrow Web Breaking News (Free subscription) | 12/18/2007
In what could be a sign of tougher times ahead for certain sectors of our industry, UPM , the Finnish papermaking giant, is reducing capacity. It is closing three of UPM Raflatac's older pressure-sensitive coating lines in Tampere, Finland, plus a specialty coating line in Melbourne, Australia. The company has transferred products produced on this coater to other production lines. The factory continues...
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Putting people first (Free subscription) | 12/15/2007
Rob Walker of the New York Times Magazine asks what so many crochet-hook-wielding, papermaking, silversmithing handicrafters are doing online and tries to prove that the future of shopping — and of work — is all about the past. The article is mostly a profile of Etsy, a company that hosts an online shopping bazaar for all [...]
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Articles Elib.org (Free subscription) | 12/10/2007
Origami Origami is a creative art done with the paper. It is the ancient art of Japan but said to have its origin in China. This art involves paper folding and creating some amazing images which otherwise seem impossible to create from a medium like paper. The origami or papermaking was developed in China and some [...]
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hrishikesh | 12/22/2007
Technical Textiles for the Papermaking Industry Technical textiles in the form of paper machine clothing are critical to the papermaking process. Such materials employ sophisticated woven and nonwoven constructions. Increasingly important are advanced lamination techniques which ensure seamless high-speed production. The manufacture of paper machine clothing requires large-scale machinery. Weaving...
