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Wisconsin
- Park Falls creates controversy at former papermill with Chinese investors receiving a $1,000,00 loan from the City being in default!
- Evers appoints Paul Buhr to Wisconsin Natural Resource Board
- Greater Green Bay Chamber Launches New Excelerator Program
- Historical clean-up of the lower Fox River project
- Opinion: UW Platteville is best positioned to educate next generation of engineers.
- Ice Age Trail Is A Hike You Can Take From Nearly Any Corner Of Wisconsin
- Growing concerns about the health and capacity of the logging industry
- WTC Inside Wis: Cybersecurity isn’t just a techie issue!
- Wisconsin receives $142M to combat infrastructure water challenges
- With an emphasis on connecting to nature, some Wisconsin students spend their entire school days outside
- Uncoated Paper Market is Projected to Grow …BPM, Inc. is a player listed.
- Joel Quadracci- Wisconsin Most Influential Business Leader
- Wisconsin Manufacturing supply chain keeps humming along supplying worldwide markets
Paper
- Paper and Packaging Caucus Welcomes New Bipartisan House Leadership
- Colormates Bold New Text and Cover Printing Papers from cti paper
- Kemira Appoints Antti Salminen as President, Pulp & Paper Segment
- The price of paper
- Pulp and Paper Spotlight – Brazil moves into 3rd place.
- How Water-Resistant Paper Packaging Could Transform the Packaging Sector
- Paper cup market to grow at 4.3% CAGR for 2022 -2030
- Using alternative papers due to shortages, lead times, etc.
- Felix Paper Expands in North America with a $100 million dollar investment
- It has been a tough year for newsprint with high costs and supply chain issues.
- November Printing Paper Up 13% in November Foreign imports up substantially
Manufacturing
- 10 Northeastern Wisconsin Companies Named Finalist in States Manufacturer Award
- PN names Processor of the year. Sustained Excellence winner with 3 Wisconsin Companies being recognized. Wisconsin employer’s 43,446 people in the Plastic Industry.
- Appvion: Applied Innovation
- Vollrath Manufacturing: Plastic and High Quality Acrylic Fabrication
- Empire Screen: The Art of Printing
- Paper Machinery Corporation designs and manufacturers forming machine producing paper board, plastic cups, containers and packages.
- Redline Plastics recently moved into a new state of the art 222,632 sq. ft. manufacturing plant in Manitowoc.
- Inland: Flexible Packaging Achievement Award Earned by Inland Packaging
- Volm Company: Our Solutions Begin with Innovation, Engineering and Forward Thinking
- Robinson, Inc.: Your Premier Contract Metal Manufacturing Partner
Converting
- AMD Converting & Label, Inc.: Specializing in customer converting, flexo printing, etc.
- Contract Converting slitting & rewinding
- Korber: A new choice for rolled wipes converting
- As a custom print converter, TLP has the ability and technical aptitude to produce a variety of labels and die cut solutions
- Cloveridge Converting, Inc: Provides quality paper to the agricultural and services industries.
- Robotic automation addressing labor shortage in the converting industry
Plastic
- Beyond paper and plastic, the quest for the perfect straw continues
- Scientists create emission-free recycling plastics
- State Regulators investigate pfas levels in northern Wisconsin towns
- UW Madison Researchers working on simple models on PFAS flows to the ground
- Exxon Mobil’s First Sale of Certified Polymers Goes to Berry Global
- SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING MYTHS
- Plant-based plastic strong as PET, degrades into sugars in the environment
- Plastics in Lake Erie find ways into our drinking water
- Recycling plastic is practically impossible – and the problem is getting worse.
- Forget forever chemicals: US Senate passes amendment to band PFAS in Food Packaging
- 7 types of plastic – Here’s How to Deal with Each of Them
- The Future of Plastic Recycling and Europe Leads the Way
Labor
- Why people in their 20’s are vanishing from the workforce
- Google quiet hiring strategy
- Show Them the Money! Bank of America Just Threw $1Billion at the Great Resignation.
- Meet the 40-year-old millennial who joined the Great Resignation because her employer wouldn’t let her work remotely: I chose to be happy.
- Express your inner superhero – literally – in GE Healthcare’s Digital Technology Team
- It doesn’t have to be this way: How expanding paid leave could ease working parent woes & labor crunch
- Great Resignation or Great Redirection?
- Great Resignation: Workers cite low pay, lack of opportunities for quitting jobs in new survey
- 5 Trends that will shape the workforce in 2023
Sponsor
- Sustana Fiber: Bringing fiber a full circle with Sustainable Innovation
- When Trend Watches Pays off Meet Ann Frantz
- n-tech: Outdated Technology is dangerous and expensive
- Printco: How to Automate Your Business
- Robinsons Contract Custom fabrication provides onshore options
- EMT International prefers Vetaphone Corona Treatment Technology
- First Business Bank: Financial Update
- ePac: Ten packaging designs for 2023
- Midland: American printing paper market future opportunities look good!
- Catbridge calculators productively estimators
- Sure Controls: The Future of Manufacturing is NOW!
- SGS CO welcomes Robert Sanders as President & CEO
- Precision Roll Solutions: Rolls for EV manufacturing
- Amundsen Davis Law: Law Update Remedies for Unfair Labor Practices
