GLG News by Commercial Printing Market Experts

By any measurement, these are huge additions to capacity, and the article also points out new pulp operations coming on line in South America totalling over 8 MM tons of pulp capacity. The article also points out that many small operations in China will be closed - and fiber diverted - If this comes...

China's rapidly expanding paper industry definitely needs huge quantities of pulp.  Domestic production is preferable to importing. But, pulp mills require reasonably priced chips in large quantity on a consistent basis.  Where will these chips come from?  Can enough Pine plantations...

With 84 million people and an ambitious Government anxious to remake Viet Nam from an agrarian economy to an industrial powerhouse, it was only natural that first Lee & Mann and now Tan Mai Paper would build pulp and paper mills as the financing became available.  These two companies will...

The importance of the cost of wood cannot be overemphasized.  It's the highest single cost in producing pulp.  How much will the closure of sawmills effect pulp mills' cost structure since they now must go out and harvest trees. Finland, for example, must now pay Russia 15 euros/cubic...

As commodity and energy costs continue to rise it has put more pressure on the botton lines of all food companies.Food companies have had to raise prices to offset these increases.However not all food companies are losing share to private label as a result of the price increases.

Industry consolidation is, to some extent over because there is no one left to acquire!  Our News posting and client report identifies how this is an excellent strategic move for Ricoh, and a significant threat to Canon.

The bottom line:  Ricoh now has one of the broadest distribution channels in the market, they have the broadest product line in the market, and they now have one of the strongest service delivery teams in the business.   The competitive impact:  Canon is the biggest looser. ...

As the author points up - chip supplies for pulp mills are becoming hard to procure.  The next "wave" of change is the emerging (erupting?) biomass markets.  There are over 40 US mills either announced, under construction, or running.  The largest of the bio pellet plants rival pulpmills...

The Portland (OR) Oregonian featured a lengthy piece concerning layoff rumblings around HP's Corvallis and Vancouver inkjet-printer-related divisions, including quotes from an HP Vice President and his concern for future growth (or lack thereof) in the inkjet business. The news trickle made it to Boise,...

1. Motion Pictures Association of America site to link to any legal distributor such as Fandango, Xbox Live, Netflix, iTunes and Sony's PlayStation Store.      2.  Recent research conducted by the MPAA and Yahoo found that the internet plays a significant role in driving...