Study Group: Precipitated Calcium Carbonate Experts(?)

There are 530 major newspapers in the US which are struggling with the highest newsprint prices since 1995.  They have already reduced the weight of the paper to 45 gsm and reduced the width of the paper. The NY Times instituted a waste reduction campaign that produced a 10% reduction in paper...

The Halsey mill was sold twice in one week.  First to Ableco for $24 million (but only $10 million in cash, the remainder was debt assumption).  Wayzata stepped up and bid $31 million cash but immediately refused to recognize the local Union.  Will this allow them to reduce the 180 man...

It has been reported that fully half the sawmills in British Columbia are now down for lack of orders.  This means that all those pulp mills who formerly purchased great quantities of chips (in some cases, 55% of their total fiber supply) have had to resort to other means.....(1) additional...

The Halsey mill has a number of valuable assets - the ability to produce Unbleached Softwood (most mills have gone out of this grade), two tissue/towelling machines, a deinking pulping operation, a pulp grade (NBSK) that is in demand all over the Pacific Rim and SE Asia and a location right on...

Raising the duy of all logs to 80 euros/cubic meter will put half the mills in Sweden and Finland out of business it's been reported. Already these mills are operating with the world's highest wood costs - some say as high as US$256/mt or almost six times as high as Ara Cruz's world costs for plantation...