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AF&PA President and CEO Donna Harman Announces Retirement
WASHINGTON – Donna Harman, the longest-serving President and CEO in the 25-year history of the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), announced her retirement today. She has represented the interests of the forest products industry for the past 29 years and AF&PA member companies for 18 years, including the last 12 years as President and […]
RecyclePaperZA on eNews Channel Africa – paper recycling and the festive season
Ursula Henneberry, former operations director of RecyclePaperZA, South Africa’s paper recycling association, shares some helpful hints and tips on paper recycling, especially when it comes to gifts.
Unique steel belt press for high strength wood-containing paper inaugurated
A new steel belt has been inaugurated at MoRe in which strong packaging material from high yield pulp can be developed. The idea is to create prerequisites for today’s newsprint and magazine paper mills to modify their paper machines and pulp processes into production of packaging material which in several aspects are better than the […]
Calling all teachers (and parents): Show our forests some love and win a trip to Rome!
Trees are very important as they provide our planet with essential environmental services while also giving us jobs, products and fun. To celebrate the many fantastic things about forests, both natural and planted, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is running a competition ahead of International Day of Forests on 21 March 2019. The prize: […]
Change your recycling habits and change someone’s life
Nearly 1,3 million tonnes of paper was collected for recycling in 2017. This amount of paper would fill 1,539 Olympic-sized swimming pools and saves 3.9 million cubic metres of landfill space. However, only 13% of South African households recycle regularly, according to Statistics SA.Drive around your neighbourhood on rubbish collection day, not only will you […]
Sappi Typek launches new brand campaign
Sappi Typek launches new brand campaign – live a life of note Typek, the A4 paper that is used by many businesses, launched a new consumer campaign. One that will make you sit up and take note. The ‘Live a Life of Note’ campaign, a fresh media campaign aimed at everyone who has come to […]
International forest certification body PEFC endorses locally developed South African standard
Johannesburg (22 November 2018) – On 14 November, at its general assembly in Geneva, the Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) announced its endorsement of the South African Forestry Accreditation Scheme (SAFAS), a local initiative that seeks to make forest certification more accessible to small-scale timber growers. As the demand for sustainably produced and […]
Sappi Typek launches new brand campaign – live a life of note
Typek, the A4 paper that is used by many businesses, launched a new consumer campaign. One that will make you sit up and take note. The ‘Live a Life of Note’ campaign, a fresh media campaign aimed at everyone who has come to trust the paper in the red box, launched on 29 October and […]
Neuromarketing leads to better packaging design
How can neuromarketing – using combinations of biometric measuring techniques to analyse consumer reactions – be a tool that makes packaging development more efficient? The answers will be supplied by Iggesund Paperboard and Tobii Pro, a global leader in the field of eye tracking, in exclusive seminars targeted at both companies’ customers. “With eye tracking […]
Tetra Pak Celebrates 60 Years In South Africa
Tetra Pak, the leading food processing and packaging company, is celebrating 60 years in South Africa. With a world class manufacturing plant, established in 1979 in Pinetown, Tetra Pak South Africa has grown since its establishment to almost 2 billion packages to meet the needs of the growing population in the region. “Tetra Pak was […]
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AF&PA President and CEO Donna Harman Announces Retirement
WASHINGTON – Donna Harman, the longest-serving President and CEO in the 25-year history of the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), announced her retirement today. She has represented the interests of the forest products industry for the past 29 years and AF&PA member companies for 18 years, including the last 12 years as President and […]
RecyclePaperZA on eNews Channel Africa – paper recycling and the festive season
Ursula Henneberry, former operations director of RecyclePaperZA, South Africa’s paper recycling association, shares some helpful hints and tips on paper recycling, especially when it comes to gifts.
Unique steel belt press for high strength wood-containing paper inaugurated
A new steel belt has been inaugurated at MoRe in which strong packaging material from high yield pulp can be developed. The idea is to create prerequisites for today’s newsprint and magazine paper mills to modify their paper machines and pulp processes into production of packaging material which in several aspects are better than the […]
Calling all teachers (and parents): Show our forests some love and win a trip to Rome!
Trees are very important as they provide our planet with essential environmental services while also giving us jobs, products and fun. To celebrate the many fantastic things about forests, both natural and planted, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is running a competition ahead of International Day of Forests on 21 March 2019. The prize: […]
Change your recycling habits and change someone’s life
Nearly 1,3 million tonnes of paper was collected for recycling in 2017. This amount of paper would fill 1,539 Olympic-sized swimming pools and saves 3.9 million cubic metres of landfill space. However, only 13% of South African households recycle regularly, according to Statistics SA.Drive around your neighbourhood on rubbish collection day, not only will you […]
Sappi Typek launches new brand campaign
Sappi Typek launches new brand campaign – live a life of note Typek, the A4 paper that is used by many businesses, launched a new consumer campaign. One that will make you sit up and take note. The ‘Live a Life of Note’ campaign, a fresh media campaign aimed at everyone who has come to […]
International forest certification body PEFC endorses locally developed South African standard
Johannesburg (22 November 2018) – On 14 November, at its general assembly in Geneva, the Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) announced its endorsement of the South African Forestry Accreditation Scheme (SAFAS), a local initiative that seeks to make forest certification more accessible to small-scale timber growers. As the demand for sustainably produced and […]
Sappi Typek launches new brand campaign – live a life of note
Typek, the A4 paper that is used by many businesses, launched a new consumer campaign. One that will make you sit up and take note. The ‘Live a Life of Note’ campaign, a fresh media campaign aimed at everyone who has come to trust the paper in the red box, launched on 29 October and […]
Neuromarketing leads to better packaging design
How can neuromarketing – using combinations of biometric measuring techniques to analyse consumer reactions – be a tool that makes packaging development more efficient? The answers will be supplied by Iggesund Paperboard and Tobii Pro, a global leader in the field of eye tracking, in exclusive seminars targeted at both companies’ customers. “With eye tracking […]
Tetra Pak Celebrates 60 Years In South Africa
Tetra Pak, the leading food processing and packaging company, is celebrating 60 years in South Africa. With a world class manufacturing plant, established in 1979 in Pinetown, Tetra Pak South Africa has grown since its establishment to almost 2 billion packages to meet the needs of the growing population in the region. “Tetra Pak was […]