Sorry

apologies!

I am presently traveling in China and since last Wednesday it was impossible to access to Google and also this blogspot which belongs to Google .This is something to do with recent crackdown on pornography by the Communist Party. Google has been banned for allowing searches to offensive links to pornography.

Today is my lucky day . I got through.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=atGvSC8TsyGs

Paper and sex

Who says there is no sex in paper business!. Not only tittilating and juicy gossips come from Hollywood you get "dirty" stuff from the wood business too.

Corrugated boxes manufactured by International Paper has a tollfree phone number printed on it. When you call in you will be greeted by "Hey there sexy guy" and will be tempted with a "one on one hot, horny girls ready to talk to you".

Ha ha.. that is hell of a way to boost paper sales. Fortunately or unfortunately[??] it was a mistake. That tollfree number owned by International Paper was phased out in 2007 and subsequently bought by an adult services organisation, but these boxes are still around, apparently.

This a case where a strong, durable corrugated paperboard box that can be reused many times is not so good!.

Read more in http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2009/06/phone-sex-service-gets-boost-from-lands.html

Also http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/hey-big-boy-can-i-recycle-your-boxes.html

News!

It is official!!

R.R. Donelley has confirmed given up on its bid to add Quebecor World into its printing empire.

However its spokesman added Donelley will "pursue other strategic inintiatives". What does that mean?. Read all about in

http://news.paperindex.com/Blogs_Columns/Donnelley_Takes_Its_Ball_and_Goes_Home/

Truly Recycled

créme de la créme recycled paper

I really believe this paper Cyclus is top of the range in terms of pro-environment authenticity as well as value for money. Made from 100% post- consumer and yet aesthetically appealing is no small feat. And not to mention very printable. What about those tiny dots or speckles?. Well it shows how genuine the post -consumer content is. In fact that is where the difference between a post-consumer as opposed to a pre-consumer waste lies.

Let me digress. Post-consumer waste are papers used with ink imprinted and/or foil stamped and/or uv -varnished or has incurred any type of writing or printing process or combination thereof. Think of the difficulty of removing these "impurities".Then to dispose these effluence or waste in an environmentally responsible way,. We do not have to go far. Just go to a nearby printing company and watch the ink in the surrounding drains. [I am not saying all printing cos. are like that in Malaysia but sorry to say it is the majority]. Anyway Cyclus is made in Denmark where pollution of the environment is taken seriously incurring heavy fines.

In contrast pre-consumer waste is quite straight forward. All unused papers fom the printer or convertor or off-cuts from paper mill are collected and recycled . Unprinted off-cuts or off-trims are sold for good money. Relatively easy to manage. Pre-consumer waste since it is not thrown away does not aggravate the problem of lack of landfills.

In many countries it is a norm to expect a recycled paper to contain a certain percentage of post-consumer waste and not necessarily 100%. Many text and cover paper like in the US that boast of being recycled contains no more than 30% post-consumer which is to be fair, is a respectable portion.This is so also to ensure that the paper maintains most if not all the properties of a virgin fibered paper.

Well you can't have everything. Recycled stuff is not perfect. With 100% re-used pulp the result will be less stiff, less bulk and of course, little specks scattered on the paper surface. And old pulp just cannot be brighter and whiter. So why then do we use Cyclus?. Printing on Cyclus is really about making a definite, commited stand for the environment. Let the paper mill explains :

Dalum Papir is known as one of the world's most environmentally-friendly paper manufacturers, producing fine printing paper based on a 100% recycling concept. This means that only recycled fibres are used in the production of Cyclus, and that all residual products from processing the used fibres are also recycled, e.g. as a raw material for making leached filler and as raw material for the cement industry, and as biological sludge for fertiliser. Our environmental commitment is met through the composition of our products and the production process. Producing fine paper from recycled fibres generates major savings in resources, both in terms of energy and water.


Quote from

http://www.dalumpapir.dk/953

Will the world's largest printer become bigger?

R.R .Donelley is unlikely to succeed in its quest to take over Quebec World. R.R .Donelley has offered another 200 million on top of the USD 1.3 billion but the deal may not go through. The board of Quebec World has rejected the sweetened offer and it is unlikely the creditors will accept the offer.

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/06/08/donelley-quebecor.html
http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2009/06/after-3-swings-at-quebecor-has.html

As of 2007 R.R. Donelley is the world's largest commercial printer, according to Wikipedia.

Perfume and paper

Durian?????

Remember those days where Chinese New Year cards received came with a smell. Good or bad fragrance depends very much on your tastes. Thirty years ago they were a hit , selling briskly. Originally from Taiwan soon Indonesia followed suit. Today with Issei Miyake , CK One, Burberry and etc. these old fashion chemically made perfumed, greeting cards are largely unpalatable to our urban sophistiscated indulgence. Guess what ?. A Canadian company has started to make and market paper with a scent. It is a paper that via a patent-pending technology that has fragrance infused into the paper during the paper making process. You can even custom make your preferred fragrance. However I wonder if "durian" paper will be allowed....in the hotels , airplanes.... hmm. Interesting. Meanwhile this paper is environment-friendly being 100% post- consumer waste.

Read more http://news.paperindex.com/ProductLaunches_NewTechnology/ScentAir_Adds_Scented_Paper_by_Cascades_to_Product_Li

Vietnam and Indonesia paper go against the trend

When most countries are contracting in this recession Vietnam has paper guys looking with envy.

Its paper production will go up by 12% while consumption by 2%, according to Vietnam Pulp And Paper Association. Thanks in part ,to tax extensions and import tax cuts.

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02BUS250509

The paper demand shot up in the January to March period this year in Indonesia. Indonesia recorded a robust increase of 10.16% in 2009 first quarter as opposed to the same quarter the previous year. To some extent this rise is due to the recent general elections.

But there is more than meets the eye. In the same period the raw timber supplied to the printing and paper industry has actually declined by 16%. Greenomics a non -governmental organisation focussing on the mining and the forestry industry has asked the government to look into this anomaly.

Incidentally Indonesia is the eleventh largest paper producer and ninth largest pulp producer in the world.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/05/27/paper-industry-flourishes-first-quarter.html