EURO-GRAPH Releases May Coated Ships

EURO-GRAPH reported May European shipments of coated mechanical paper fell -8.4% and demand was down -11.1% as compared to the same month last year. Exports rose +1.2%. Coated woodfree shipments declined -3.5%, demand decreased -1.1% and exports were down -12.4%. Supercalendered paper shipments fell -2.9%, demand declined -2.7% and exports decreased -3.6%

Most Sartell Workers Layed Off, Legislature Could Consider Special Aid

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Officials from Verso on Monday acknowledged layoff notices had been given to most of the work force at their Sartell plant in the wake of the Memorial Day explosion and fire that rendered the plant inoperable. Meanwhile, state Senate Majority Leader David Senjem said another recent disaster may open the door for legislators to discuss state aid for Verso. Senjem said recovery aid for the Verso incident, which killed one person and injured four others, should be considered during a potential special legislative session to mull flood relief for the Duluth area. Gov. Mark Dayton has authority to call a special session, and has said one is possible to provide state aid to the Duluth region after the severe floods that occurred there last week.

Resolute Idles Catawba's PM 1

Resolute Forest Products plans to shut its 150,000 tons/yr lightweight coated paper machine PM 1 at Catawba mill in South Carolina indefinitely on Saturday. The company said layoffs will start July 2.

Shandong Huatai Starts Paper Machine

China's Shandong Huatai Paper has started up a 150,000 tonne/yr uncoated fine paper (UFP) unit and a 150,000 tonne/yr bleached kraft pulp line at a new mill in Anqing city, Anhui province.

Cataloguers Fight House Postal Bill

Cataloguers push back against postal legislation: The American Catalog Mailers Association is criticizing a postal reform bill that, if passed, would legislate rate increases, bypassing the typical process of rate approval via the Postal Regulatory Commission.

Hearst Plans Private Ad-Buying Marketplace

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Another big magazine company is looking to ad tech to make its online ad inventory more valuable.

Six months after Conde Nast launched a private ad marketplace to increase the sell-through of its online ad space without opening it up ot public ad exchanges, Hearst Magazines' digital unit -- Hearst Digital Media -- is starting to work with an ad-tech vendor on its own exchange.

InfoTrends: Top Trends in Print

InfoTrends Forecasts Shift in On Demand Printing and Publishing Market: InfoTrends has identified the top trends in the U.S. print on demand market in its recently published U.S. Production Printing & Copying Market Forecast: 2011-2016. In this forecast, InfoTrends sees that the success of high-speed continuous-feed color inkjet devices foreshadows a clear shift in the on demand printing and publishing market.

Marketers Scale Back for June

Warc: Marketers see confidence, spending fall marginally: Marketing budgets and hiring worldwide were scaled back in June, according to a report from marketing services information company Warc, as confidence fell in response to the Eurozone debt crisis and an economic slowdown in China.

World Media Closes Newspaper Buys

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Media General, Inc. today completed the previously announced sale of 63 daily and weekly newspapers to World Media Enterprises, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., for $142 million in cash, subject to adjustment for working capital and other items.

New York Times on Flipboard

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The New York Times’ subscribers will soon be able read the entire paper on the aggregation/recommendation app. The news is important for Flipboard because it marks the first time the start-up has convinced a big publisher to give it full access to its “premium” content. Previously it has let users sample bits of stuff from magazines, newspapers and the like.

First Full-Scale Green Liquor Plant

First full-scale plant for green liquor filtration in the world
Munksjö Aspa Bruk AB will install the first full-scale plant for green liquor filtration in the world based on the unique method developed by the Clean Flow AB. The process has been successful in operation and evaluated for two years at Aspa mill.

RRD Introduces ProteusJet Multiweb Platform Apps

RR Donnelley Introduces Series of ProteusJet Multiweb Platform Apps: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company today introduced a series of applications for its new ProteusJet Multiweb platform. ProteusJet enables sophisticated credit, telecom and cable, retail and insurance marketers to manage one-to-one communications to maximize revenues.