Nothing says holiday special quite like high-tech gourd hurling. Brad Sherwood ("Whose Line Is It Anyway?") hosts the hour-long "23rd Annual World Championship Punkin' Chunkin" (9 p.m., Science), a festival of backyard engineering and a contest to see...
The folks around Bastrop were wearing long faces Friday as the news spread that International Paper's Louisiana Mill is closing indefinitely. Some people, who didn't want to be quoted, expressed anger at the company while others lamented the fate of the...
The company also said it was continuing to proceed with the pulp mill project as planned. Gunns said the risk agreement was intended to provide security in the event of Forestry Tasmania being unable to supply its volume commitments under the wood supply
Bell Bay pulp mill in Tasmania is in doubt, saying construction will begin once financing is secured. Despite the wood chipper's reassurances, Gunns shares fell nearly 18% yesterday. The fall was connected to reports that fervent mill project supporter
Ltd's controversial pulp mill project in Tasmania appears dead, says former premier Paul Lennon, one of its biggest supporters. Criticised for his support of the mill, Mr Lennon told a parliamentary inquiry today that Tasmania would rue the mill's demise
A newly-built modern paper mill in Thabaung, Myanmar's southwestern Ayeyawaddy division, has gone into production, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Monday. The 50-ton-capacity Thabaung paper mill, operated by the Myanmar Paper...
Ashland completes Hercules deal Ashland Inc. announced Thursday that it has completed its acquisition of Hercules Inc., one of the world's leading suppliers of specialty chemicals to the pulp and paper industry. When the deal was announced, Ashland
Researchers at Emory University in the U.S. have discovered dental pulp stem cells can stimulate growth and generation of several types of neural cells. Findings from this study, released by the university on Tuesday, suggest dental pulp stem cells
Plant management is expected to discuss with the union the possibility of shutting down production for four to six weeks in order to clear inventory that has built up because of a glut in global textile stockpiles. The workers were briefed less than a...
Staged by British film director Ken Russell, the thriller is described as such: "When a writer of pulp crime novels gets an interview with a notorious serial killer he believes he has snared the coup of his career. But when he arrives at the asylum, he