Letters to the editor.Dear Alan: Thank you for the interesting article, "Machine politics: The changing supplier arena," by Hannu Oinonen, published in your June edition, and also for Alan's ongoing "Viewpoint" columns on the changes our industry is currently going through, I agree with Hannu that "machinery suppliers play a critical role in technology development." Indeed, this is true more than ever, as consolidation and rationalizations among paper companies lead to the closing of some long established research centers. I would like to let your readers know, however, that there are still more than three "vendors operating research centers with pilot paper machine development capabilities." GL&V operates a lane pilot paper machine, capable of running full production speeds on a wide variety of grades, at its Research Center in Watertown, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . This machine is equipped with a 70-ft. long fourdrinier, two top wire formers, dilution control headboxes, and has just been rebuilt with a modular press section that includes bi-nip, jumbo and shoe presses. GL&V is currently investing to integrate its pulp and paper research facilities, putting pilot stock preparation and paper machine equipment together at one location. We will start up pulping
In fact, you may not realize that GL&V has grown rapidly in recent years to include such familiar names as Beloit-Jones, Beloit-Lenox, Black Clawson-Kennedy, Sandy Hill Sandy Hill (French: Côte-de-Sable) is a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario located just east of downtown. The neighbourhood is bordered on the west by the Rideau Canal and on the east by the Rideau River. , Celleco, Dorr-Oliver, Impco, LaValley, Canron, National Refiner re·fine v. re·fined, re·fin·ing, re·fines v.tr. 1. To reduce to a pure state; purify. 2. To remove by purifying. 3. Plate, Albia, Hedemora and others. We are a North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. based company, with major manufacturing facilities in Canada and the United States The United States and Canada share a unique legal relationship. U.S. law looks northward with a mixture of optimism and cooperation, viewing Canada as an integral part of U.S. economic and environmental policy. , but we have a presence in some 40 countries worldwide. I would like to extend art open invitation to all Solutions/ readers, along with your editorial board members and authors, to visit our expanding research center and see for themselves that there is still new investment in research facilities and in new technology development in the North American paper industry. Yours sincerely, Marc Foulger Director of Research GL&V Dear Alan: I wanted to share with you the very good response I have gotten from my article ("Making the best of change," Solutions!, May 2002, p. 46). I have received messages from colleagues both current and former, but the real joy has been the e-mails from strangers who have read the article and have written to let me know they were helped by the content. There are so many people who have gone through downsizing (1) Converting mainframe and mini-based systems to client/server LANs. (2) To reduce equipment and associated costs by switching to a less-expensive system. (jargon) downsizing and others who have watched it happen and they are struggling. I'm glad to have the opportunity to communicate with them. There have also been messages from managers who are dealing with this from the other side (that is, having to do the downsizing) and I am now in discussions with some of them. It was wonderful to have the opportunity to publish in Solutions! Ginny Ginny is most often used as a short form of the name Virginia, but often also refers to Ginevra, Geneva, Genevieve and other Juniper-related names. In addition, when a food or beverage has a juniper taste, it is said to be ginny (the word gin is derived from the Dutch word for Silver International Paper Solutions! is interested in hearing from you. Please forward your comments to: Alan Rooks Alan Rook edited the 1936 issue of New Oxford Poetry and he was a Cairo poet.[1][2] After the war, he became a wine-trader. References 1. ^ [1] 2. Editorial Director * Mail: PO. Box 930, Glenview, IL 60025-0930 * Fax: 847/998-6174 * E-mail: arooks@tappi.org Regarding: Letters |
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