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Your weekly installment of new knowledge, sponsored by Valmet. Each week’s e-newsletter brings you one featured article, selected by TAPPI’s editors, on new research, business/technology trends, industry markets, or upcoming events – a range of topics geared toward industry professionals. You’ll also get a pulp and paper industry-specific article from the tech experts at Valmet. With more than 27,000 subscribers, Ahead of the Curve delivers engaging info that readers can use today to prepare for tomorrow.

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China’s Rush to Flush: The Rise of Toilet Paper
According to an article in Forbes Asia magazine, Chinese consumers are well known for their interest in luxury goods, but enterprising manufacturers are now rushing to take advantage of their more private interest in other comforts of modern life.
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RBI Merges imagination with ingenuity in lignocellulosics development
Cellulose, nature's most abundant polymer, is sustainable, renewable, and recyclable. Lignin is a valuable chemical feedstock. Both are found in grasses, trees and agricultural biomass and are building blocks of food, clothing, packaging, coatings and composites, medicine and biomedical products, cosmetics, soaps, paint, aerogels, impact-resistant plastics, and biofuels.
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Province offers pulp mills $100 million for energy conservation
B.C.’s Energy Minister is throwing a lifeline to the province’s pulp mills, with up to $100 million for energy conservation projects to help offset rising industrial electricity rates.
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Nanocellulose moves from lab to market
The main message from the 2014 TAPPI International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials, held in Vancouver June 23-26, was that after years of development, nanocellulose is now making the leap from the lab to the market but will take time and require more investment in chemistry, physics, and engineering.
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National Geographic adds recycled fiber to magazines
In a major step forward for the use of recycled paper in the magazine industry, the National Geographic Society (NGS) has begun incorporating recycled fiber in all the pages of National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Kids, and National Geographic Little Kids.
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Greg King wins PPSA's Executive Eagle Award
Greg King, Senior Vice President and General Manager – Recycling, RockTenn, received the Executive Eagle Award during the Pulp and Paper Safety Association (PPSA) conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, in June.
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Young Professionals get their own TAPPI division
Are you a young professional new to the pulp and paper industry? If so, here's a way to get a head start on the competition and become highly-involved in the industry by building valuable networks and gaining first-class knowledge directly relevant to your job?
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Young Professionals get their own TAPPI division
Are you a young professional new to the pulp and paper industry? If so, here's a way to get a head start on the competition and become highly-involved in the industry by building valuable networks and gaining first-class knowledge directly relevant to your job?
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Finland to lead the way in developing storage of solar and wind energy
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has joined forces with Lappeenranta University of Technology and the Finland Futures Research Centre at the University of Turku, in the launch of an extensive development project for a brand new energy system and its associated business sector in Finland.
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FPInnovations and Kruger dedicate cellulose filament demonstration plant
FPInnovations and Kruger Inc. [on June 17, 2014] dedicated the world’s first cellulose filament (CF) demonstration plant at Kruger’s Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, mill.

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