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Featured Stories
- Nestle sets out five-pillar packaging plan ahead of 2025 goal
- Georgia-Pacific closes Illinois plant
- The world’s largest economies in 2026
- Clean harbors pfas incineration up to 99.99 destruction in epa test
- The Most Popular Brand Colours In Each Industry
- The World’s largest labor force by country with Asia leading the way
- Sustainability specialist of the year Theresa Lehman Miron Construction
- Sofidel further expands its production capacity in the USA.
- Wisconsin Paper Council raises concerns on bill to ban foreign adversary land ownership
- EDANA calls for clarity and consistency on the EU Deforestation Regulation
- Wisconsin and others in skyrocketing record growth in tourism
- Universities of Wisconsin enrollment up for third straight year
- Kimberly-Clark plans $160 million distribution center in Ohio
- Saica Group announces $110 million dollar investment in Indiana
- GenX the new map in the food industry and packaging spending
- Flexible packaging powers $151 billion to US economy
- Microsoft brings new agentic AI platform to Titletown Tech, UW Madison
- UW Madison Advanced materials, design, and manufacturing
- Tech companies tout research community gains and Wisconsin voters question data centers
- Packaging Manufacturing Companies layoffs and plant closures in October
- Paperboard trends folding cartons impacted by tariffs, and economic uncertainty hurting the industry
- Kimberly-Clark acquires Kenvue for $48.7 billion
- Tariffs on wood products might not help Wisconsin producers
- Nestles unveils significant change to packaging of Kit Cat
- Color Craft Graphic Arts in Manitowoc on its sale to paperworks.
Pulp
- China overcapacity impacts and strategic for the pulp and paper industry in the USA
- 10 Interesting Facts about the Current State of the Pulp and Paper Industry
- One of Maines largest pulp mill lays off $144 in production shut down. Pulp & Paper is a multi-billion dollar business.
- West Fraser closes down due to tariffs, high duties, and lack of lumber supply imposed on them by the USA.
AI
- China artificial intelligence deep seek US technology
- ai is changing Stem high school students artificial intelligence
- Are leaders leaving workers behind in ai boom
- Is ai really behind layoffs or a excuse
- ai is changing startup hiring for companies
- ai boom is driving US economy & jobs
- ai eats into leisure time and makes people work harder
- 87% of Executives adopting ai at higher rates than workers
- ai impact job losses layoffs productivity cost cutting
- Why some of us love ai while others hate it
- ai grows more powerful understanding consciousness now a urgent issue
- New data shows companies rehire former employees ai
- ai adoption without losing the human touch
- 10 Smart Ways To Use Nano Banana – The Incredible AI Tool for Designers
Forest
- Ranked countries with the largest forests in 2025
- Nation that is 90% rainforest announces protection for 90% of its rainforest with over 25 million acres
- China has added forests the size of Texas
- Brazil green Bahia farmers winning battle over eucalyptus plantations by big pulp companies
- William criticizes deforestation in Brazil
- Fast growing trees to avoid
- Trump’s plan to end forest protections targets a conservation success story
- Conservancy secures largest land acquisition in decades in the Greater lakes north region
- The Amazon nears the point of no return
- Interpol announces a new global fight against deforestation in the Amazon
- Brazil stumps up billions of dollars for its ambitious rainforest fund
- Why Swedens forest policy matters to the world
- WDNR Forestry Statistics in Wisconsin
- Which regions have the highest density of forests
- Human impact on the Amazon forests is transforming its ecological functions
Members
- Contract Manufacturing & Converting Review with Wisconsin companies leading the way
- Congratulations to Little Rapids that are finalists for sustainable business
- Meet Jeff Carew President ProCon
- First Business Bank earnings 26% in Q3
- Bardes Plastics innovator in custom plastic in the food industry
- Miraclon announces FLEXCEL NX Central Software 3.0 to SUPERCHARGE FLEXCEL plates
- Precision Roll Solutions the latest news and insights
- First Business Bank Asset based lending
- Hybrid Software Helix; the new name for Global Graphics Software
- Suburban Electric Industrial Automation
