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Featured Stories
- Pixelle Specialty Solutions Appoints Julie Schertell as CEO
- SAPPI concludes $500 million expansion project at is Sommerset mill in Maine for board products
- The Great Lakes Region is unprepared.for increasing usage of water especially for data centers
- Kimberly-Clark to cuts capacity at Fox Crossing Cold Springs plant to Malaysia and Vietnam
- US paper and Cardboard recycling rates fell in 2024
- Variable Digital market is going to boom
- Trees for Tomorrow to offer nature programs for kids
- International Paper announces strategic changes
- Domtar in Wisconsin groundbreaking ceremony signals beginning Rothschild dam repairs
- Kimberly-Clark may move some production overseas ensures no job loss in Neenah
- Green Bay Packaging appoints Matt Szmanski as new Executive Vice President
- International Paper closes 4 facilities affecting 1,100 employees
- Kimberly-Clark names new president
- ProAmpac to acquire PAC Worldwide
China
- Shanghai ranking shake up China and Taiwan now have more universities in the top 500 then the USA due to cuts by the Federal Government
- American anti circumvention working group including a Wisconsin company requesting relief from Chinese circumventing through Cambodia & Malaysia
- China’s Pulp Boom and the Future of Global.Supply
- Chinese subsidies what the evidence suggests
- Subsidies to China’s Papers industry to become the world leader in paper production as USA production declines
- China’s paper industry provides unfair global advantage due to government subsidies
- China spends billions of dollars to subsidize favored companies
- Sustainability legislation drives packaging innovation for recycling
- China business development model evolution future
- China’s Pulp Boom and the Future of Global Supply
- Maga rages Trump allowing 600,000 Chinese students in the USA
- Human microbiome. scientist Wang Leyao leaves troubled US government agency returns to Chin
- China launches advanced plastics cracking plant
- Chinese ownership of US farmland is up 55% in the past 5 years.
- Stoughton Trailer and China
- China’s Kingsun to invest $80 million in first US manufacturing facility in North Carolina
- China’s manufacturing might, supply chains, and workforce development has let it dominate industries invented by the USA.
Education
- Many US Colleges may close without immigrants and international students
- UW Platteville recognized 2025-2026 college distinction
- UW Madison 7 challenges with reduced funds for research
- Great defection threatens to empty Universities of Top Teaching Talent
- UCLA researchers worry federal cuts will kill studies and cause brain cuts
- UW Green Bay software engineering a new generation of engineers
- Trump Science brain drain and scientists are packing their bags
- Big drop in arrival of foreign students in USA including 50% from India the USA brain drain
AI
- ai descends into disillusionment
- ai is eating change management
- ai already preparing for a world of agenic ai as tech professionals
- 92 million jobs disappearing by AI by 2030
- AI impact on the job market
- ai won’t transform your business but the right thinking will
- Chinabets ai will pump trillions into economy amid computing push
- Will ai really set a new standard for recyclers?
- ai return on investment $30 billion down the drain see no returns
- ai isn’t just replacing tasks it’s replacing the office manager and maybe even the mission
Sustainability
- Sustainability transforming business decisions
- Foodservice bag market growth due to sustainability through 2035
- How Amazon and Unilever embrace Sustainability to improve business
- Sustainability shake up when the world pulls back.
- Food Packaging Tester Market to reach USD $6.9 billion driven by Sustainability Trends
- Advancing Sustainability in the Pulp and paper industry
Sponsors
- Robinson earns Fab 40 ranking as leading contract manufacturer
- Zeta Group Engineering: Stainless steel hermes
- JP Morgan/Chase leads $100mm credit facility for innovation solutions
- EMT International expands visionaries event series with largest gathering to date.
- Paper Dimensions: Your leader in converting since 1972
- First Business Bank: How to balance retirement with philanthropic goals
- Bradyplus building a packaging epr task force
- Hybrid Software releases ic3d version update
- Zeta Group Engineering: Benefits of automating end of line palletizing
- JP Morgan Vision without borders
- Hurckman Mechanical; The Milwaukee Brewers unveils new mural in Green Bay
- ark data center in Green Bay
- Ingredion $50 million dollar expansion in Cedar Rapids