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Events
- Amplify the finishing package event
- UW Platteville Stem Expo
- Registration open for New North summit to be held June 5th.
- Wisconsin Paper Council Annual Meeting on June 24, 2025 at the iconic Lambeau Field.
- Women in Forestry Leadership
- Amundsen Davis zoom webinar navigating IP rights in AI boom
- International Dairy Deli Bakery Association on June 1-3 in New Orleans
- UW Stevens Point Forestry Management for Wildlife Certificate for Migratory Birds
Featured Stories
- Microsoft work pause on data center in Mount Pleasant
- Sofidel $200 million dollar expansion in Duluth, MN
- McDonald Companies has option to purchase former Georgia Pacific mill site in Green Bay
- European pulp and paper industries weighing impact of US tariffs
- More than 800 jobs impacted by Pixelle paper mill closure
- UW Madison breaks ground on long anticipated Engineering Center
- Pixelle Specialty Solutions pauses closure to Chillicothe Paper Mill
- Fox Cities Chamber recognized as most impactful Chamber in Wisconsin
- FyterTech De Pere, WI launches a line of more biodegradable Absorbents made with 90% recycled materials.
- Redline Plastics named 2024 processor of the year!
- Fytertech Wisconsin expands spilfyter range
- Colbert Packaging Wisconsin an Executive Outlook from a industry leader.
- Printing Inks market expanding rapidly to reach $40.44 billion
- Suzano and Asian Pulp and Paper vie foe Kimberly-Clark’s International Business
- Lambeau Field and Tork celebrate twelve year partnership to reduce waste and drive efficiency
- LL Bean drops lawsuit against 4imprint over boat that name
- Molecular nanocages remove 80-90% of pfas or forever chemicals
Plastic
- Horizon Manufacturing Group in Lake Mills expands to 87,000 square feet.
- Recycled plastics market Forecast major growth
- Disturbing small amount of plastic recycling done around the world
- Plastics biodegradable cellulose based packaging replacing plastic
- A plastic that fully decomposed in soil and seawater
- Five Trends for Plastic Recycling in 2025
- Plastic Recycling market is expected to reach $95.5 billion
- Global plastic recycling stagnant and production grows.
- The plastic recycling myth and our real crisis in our brain
Packaging
- The plastic recycling myth and our real crisis in our brain
- The Rise in Flexible Packaging to capture a growth market!
- Nutraceutical packaging market to reach $6.95 billion by 2023
- Glassine paper market is growing at 4% CAGR driven by eco friendly packaging.
- Amcor and Fedrigoni partner on recycle ready flexible packaging
- Luxury Packaging meets sustainability enduring embellishments
- Pet food packaging to grow from $10.1 billion to $17.1 billion by 2031 with a 5.2 cagr
China
- Who’s behind Canada’s new pulp and paper industry Powerhouse? All fingers point to China!
- CCP China funneled $17 million into little red classrooms in US schools
- 290,086 Chinese students enrolled in US Universities and 12,000 US students are reported studying in China
- Walmart has approximately 10,500 stories worldwide and 365 in China. 80% of Walmart products are manufactured in China!
- How China exports secrecy
- Chinese malware could cut power to US military bases, businesses and home
- China: The plundering of the South China Sea
- The China Trade Relations Act has been re-introduced in support of revoking China’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations
- Scientists of Chinese descent leaving US at an accelerating pace
- Who benefited most from a long standing research pact between China and the US
Paper
- Paper still Foundation of Substrates
- Embracing circularity International Paper sustainability resource strategy
- PG focused on hiring veterans as former army officer heads up recruitment
- ESSITY: Paper mill secures 2.2 million from the government to try using hydrogen production for toilet and kitchen towels
- Paperless billing is costing the paper industry but storeless shopping and consumer packaging is growing.
- Paper packaging combats climate change but requires capacity investments
- Paper is touting as a replacement to plastics?
Sponsors
- Keller, Inc. to build for Eagle Graphics
- Heidelberg technology powers Seaway Printing success
- Ox Industries announces development of high strength paper grades for plastic and paper core applications
- ark data centers Private Cloud
- hmi Receives Prestigious Wisconsin Workplace Safety Awards
- Erhardt-Leimer stand alone machines for corrugated industry laminating system.
- WSI Inc. Eco friendly packaging in eCommerce and Why it Matters
- Precision Roll Solutions unlocking precision and safety
- Chase Bank reacts urgent statement to millions of Americans on fraud.
- Hurckman Mechanical awarded for safety in the workplace
- Midlands inkjet expertise on display at inkjet summit 2025
- Wintrust with 200 locations
- Robinson earns fourth straight year award from Rolls Royce
- Hoffman projects achieve net zero energy milestone
- McClone Insurance employee benefits trends for 2025
