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When it comes to handwriting on the proverbial wall, the message might not be pleasant, but ignoring it and burying your head in the sand is a mistake.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Fifth Assessment Report in November. Despite being an engineer who has worked with numbers and computer simulations even more than the average engineer has, I find the IPCC reports very heavy reading, with masses of data, often qualified as being imprecise. I cannot imagine any of the politicians that I have met personally having either the time, inclination or capacity to read and understand these reports.

It was nearly 23 years ago I started this company with a premise. That premise was that the pulp and paper industry was being clobbered by bad public relations related to its environmental performance and that it made more sense to work on the public relations than deal with lawsuits. That premise proved wrong, for industry management at the time and for some years thereafter thought the lawsuit route was more "fun" (that is my interpretation, they sure spent a lot of money on nothing if they weren't having fun). I moved on to other ways to spin my invoice printer. Time for a bold prediction again...

The PM40 closed Friday, 28 November 2014 at 3340

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The PM40 closed 28 November 2014 up 12% from the 29 November 2013 level.

In this issue, we evaluate Louisiana-Pacific Corporation and Potlatch Corporation.

Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

Recovery and reuse in the US

The new plant will be the biggest single pulp plant in the world

Start-up to create 70 new jobs

New plant continuously strives to work with customers to meet their needs

Investment and construction works have a positive effect on the employment and businesses

State of the art production arrives in Nanjing, China

The highest level of production quality and capacity are expected

Fall from a hydraulic bucket

Maintaining the mill's cost competitiveness and efficiencies

Universal expands its industrial business, manufacturing and design capabilities

EPA recognizes the benefits of sustainably managed biomass fuel

Will considerably improve capacity utilisation for newsprint in 2015

Fit for the future with two technology upgrades

Discolouration of the uMvoti River

Boiler plant delivery to Nokia, Finland

Chinese containerboard makers experience new technology

ICT Poland receives state-of-the-art tissue machine