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Featured Stories
- Paper Valley PCB cleanup of the Fox River New book and the economic long term benefits for our communities.
- Speaker Robin Vos pushed to eliminate technical college funding authority. There was NO PUBLIC Hearing on it!
- Paper Excellence links to destroying habitat in Indonesia
- UW Madison receives two Federal grants to Wisconsin startups in Fusion Energy.
- New Women Forest Products Scholarship Program – Wisconsin Paper Council
- Wausau sues 3M and other manufacturers over alleged PFAS Contamination
- Green Bay Packaging new folding carton division expansion
- Procon welcomes Kelly Helein as new VP of Business Development. Procon is the largest independent converter in the USA.
- Prescott, WI: 3-D printing material enables new way to make soft touch parts
- UW Madison pushes back against criticism on diversity holding the Engineering Building Hostage
- UW Madison Secretary of energy touts biofuel role in Fusion transition and the work done at UW Madison
- Republicans vote to cut UW budget $32 million and the State has a $7 billion surplus!
- Walsworth Publishing in Ripon donates $100,000 to Boys and Girls Club
- Evers was unable to undo the $32 million cut to UW Madison Engineering New Building putting it on hold. Wisconsin desperately needs Engineers
Events
- PCMC 3 day Flexo Printing seminar July 11-13th
- Is Wisconsin a bright spot for fusion energy technology-UW Madison Engineering meeting in Madison
- Women in 5P Industries Presents Women’s Leadership Series with Susan Stansbury: Evolution not Revolution
- The 5PSHOWCASE on Sept. 28th will be at the held at the expanded Radisson Hotel & Conference Center with over 75 Exhibitors in Green Bay
- Hamilton Wood Type: Wide range of wood type on display in 2023 exhibit from around the world
- Women of Influence in the New North Region August 1st.
Education
- Advances in nanotechnology through at UW Madison research
- St. Norberts to build new business educational building
- Republicans target efforts with plan to cut UW Systems budget impacting UW Madison Engineering Building
- UW Madison Mechanical Engineering: Innovative Technologies for the World
- US value colleges ranking best packaging programs with UW Stout as #3 and Northwood College #13.
- 2023 most well attended paper engineering programs with UW Stevens Point as number two.
- Michigan Technology University ranked number two as best forestry programs in the USA
- UW Madison is a national leader forest science and research
- UW Green Bay water quality program for teens
- UW Platteville field trip with other UW schools explores water challenges in Southwestern Wisconsin
- UW Stevens Point Forestry students learn the science of tree felling
- Wisconsin bill tweaking tuition reciprocity deal with Minnesota could have financial impact on the UW System.
- Attacks on higher education forcing Professors to leave Florida
- Republicans approve $3.5 billion income tax cut and reduce state funds to UW System
- UW Green Bay wins grant to make Wisconsin a global leader in sustainable ag
- UW Madison: Secretary of Energy touts biofuels role in clean energy and UW Madison is leading the way. Let’s build the new Engineering Building!
- UW Engineering faculty receive 2023-2024 warf fellowship awards
- UW Madison recycling technique could keep flexible packaging out of landfills…Support University of Madison Engineering and our packing industries!
Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Driftless Region largest used book store
- UW Madison Alumni Get to know Wisconsin from rivers to forests to cities.
- Quad debuts new built Quad Brand Campaign
- The oldest city in Wisconsin is 142 years older than America itself….GREEN BAY
- Ahlstrom introduces new release liners for pressure-sensitive tapes with recycled and unbleached fibers
Industry
- North America Printing and Writing Markets still Weak due to High Inventories.
- The New Cyber Landscape
- Brand owned and design of labels and its impact on consumers
- LCS Communications closing doors in Warsaw Indiana
- State of the industry in folding carton sustainability
- Proampac Wins Tive 2023 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards
Paper Excellence
- Report: Paper Excellent, the owner of Northern Pulp, is part of the corporate group of Asia Pulp & Paper and Sinar Mas.
- CBC Investigates: Who’s behind Canada’s new pulp-and-paper powerhouse, and where’s the money coming from?
- Investigation reveals giant North American pulp and forestry company’s links to deforestation and social conflicts through ownership structure
- Domtar celebrates airlaid nonwoven expansion $90 million acquisition in Jesup Georgia
- Paper Excellence acquires America’s Domtar in Blockbuster $3 Billion Deal to Expand Into Us Market
- Paper Excellence locations with major Manufacturing and Converting across the United States
- Paper Excellence to buy Brazul’s Eldorado from J & F for $4.7 billion
- Sinar Mas Group, said it plans to invest $3.63 billion in building a new paper factory and accompanying facilities in West Java
Forestry
- Climate change impact on the Michigan forests
- Couple shares before and after planting 2 million trees in the Amazon
- Logging Indiana Hoosier national forest.
- Biomass plant in Indonesia got millions in Green Funds
- Why the world needs millions of trees and how to plant them
- Ashland wildlife lab’s tools and know-how key to detecting illegal Timber imports
- More than 800 million trees felled in the Amazon in 6 years to meet beef demand
Sponsor
- Titletown Manufacturing LLC.: Aluminum fabrication services deliver high-quality components
- Appvion develops new sustainable coatings for label facestocks
- Robinsons custom metal fabrication supports customer growth
- Conductive Science chooses Vetaphone
- How to Save Money on Shipping Crates with Duracrate
- Precision Roll Solutions roll setups differ between ev battery and paper runs