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Featured Stories
- Singapore owns 5% of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula it’s wealth fund timber difficult to track the ownership
- Media got it wrong when it comes to Maine’s pulp and paper mills
- Why is it impossible to manufacturer in the USA? The infrastructure isn’t there anymore!
- Wisconsin becoming a powerhouse in US tourism new report surprises all with key investments.
- Madison Top Destination for Travel Destination
- Printers see opportunity in quick turnaround and web to print
- Wisconsin based energy programs honored for aptim administered marketing
- Peregrine falcons nest at Menasha Essity
- Royle Printing expands customer service team and expansion.
- Harvard University is the Top Research University in 2025 with funding being cut by the Federal Government
- Ohio secures $621,250 in infrastructure grants to support Kimberly-Clark expansion
- The article highlights UW Madison recycling of plastic and AI.
- Sonoco plans to invest in 4 US Manufacturing facilities including in Wisconsin
- Record number of Wisconsinites enrolling in apprenticeships trades
- Wisconsin air quality GOP leaders blame Canada forestry efforts
- UW Madison Biochemists engineered a popular tree produces a high demand industrial chemical
- Biodegradable paper and plastics market to surpass$35.2 billion as demand soars
- Wisconsin-based Inland drives growth in label markets
- Green Bay Packaging fully operational in Germantown, Wisconsin
- Gov. Evers and WEDC announce incentives to support Eli Lilly $4 billion expansion in Wisconsin
- VPI Tossing for Inclusion bag toss fundraiser sign up to participate
Specialty Paper
- Forest biomaterials researchers developing sustainable alternative to plastic foam packaging
- Tekni-plex Healthcare providing coating solutions to the Medical Industry
- Handywacks specialty papers
- Total U.S. Packaging Papers & Specialty Packaging Shipments Increased 5% in June 2035
- Sappi to spotlight barrier papers
- Co-op replaces plastics with cardboard in food packaging
- Amcor launches shrink bag for butter all turkey breast
- BiOrgin bioguard paper for the foodservice industry
Education
- China is outpacing the USA in Tech amid cutbacks in education by the current administration.
- UW Whitewater kicks off $50 million campaign
- UW Chancellor puzzled by GOP lawmakers stance on higher education
- UW System need more State dollars to avoid closure layoffs across Wisconsin.
- American Science to soon face its largest brain drain in history.
- Proposed cuts research funding could devastate Ohio Universities research
- How mass layoffs in education department affects college and our future
- HK China prepares for Brain Drain for US Students keeping Chinese students in China
- Federal grant funds cuts pull almost $68 million annually from University Arizona
- Northernwester to eliminate more than 400 staff positions due financial press due to federal cuts
- US higher education faces $7 billion hit as international students drops 40%.
- Cuts Science funding the apocalypse to America
- Wisconsin Republicans trying to cap tuition increases AT UW Campuses
Packaging
- Evolution demands reshape the pouching converting landscape
- Cosmetic packaging market is booming and expected to hit $57.9 billion
- Sustainable Packaging Market grows through 2034
- Produce packaging is becoming more sustainable
- The challenges ahead for digital printing for packaging
- Smithers forecasts extra growth in folding cartons due to sustainability
- Consumer Packaged Goods Market worth $4.235.01 billion by 2030.
- Green Packaging Market Unveiling Promising Growth
- The rise of flexible packaging replacing rigid paper packaging
- Amcor, American Packaging, and Sonoco plan to expand manufacturing
Paper
- Toilet Paper market overview forecast through 2033
- Ahlstrom contributes to the availability of clean water with expanded offering filters
- Canton, Ohio continues to redefine itself after paper mill closure with loss of jobs in a small city.
- Navigating the shift from paper to digital of financial documentation
- Billerud: Get to know us
Sponsors
- Eagle Performance Plastics: Achille tolerances in plastic materials
- BW Converting innovation center the only packaging center focused on flexible packaging
- Stroke RGA 3 barriers blocking scable growth for manufacturing
- EDL inline shrink-wrap packaging equipment.
- Zeta Group: Optimizing equipment through mobility.