This paper examines North American pulp and paper company bankruptcies that occurred between 1990 and 2009. We demonstrate that shareholders suffer substantial losses (37%) during the month a bankruptcy occurs. Encouragingly, we show that financial ratios are useful in predicting firm failure and that failed firms are less profitable, more liquidity constrained and higher in debt leverage. Usin...

The pulp and paper industry depends on a long and integrated supply chain. It starts in forest harvest areas as trees and ends as multiple products used in all persons daily usage. The lead time from the first step to the last is long and it involves many steps operated by several companies and organizations. In this overview paper we describe the overall supply chain, its participants and the ...

Our objective in this study was to evaluate the mortality of workers exposed to sulfur dioxide in the pulp and paper industry. The cohort included 57,613 workers employed for at least 1 year in the pulp and paper industry in 12 countries. We assessed exposure to SO(2) at the level of mill and department, using industrial hygiene measurement data and information from company questionnaires; 40,7...

Lime ball quality inspection is an important task in the pulp and paper industry. In this paper a new method, build-up on a neural network and a path search method, is introduced for lime ball automatic visual inspection. Several correction steps to Landau's method are also introduced.

This study aims to describe and analyze Model of improving employee through organizational commitment Pulp Industry in Sumatera. The research method used descriptive quantitative. sample this probability sampling technique. selection criteria was employees the pulp industry Jambi, Pekanbaru Palembang. Beverage Development with a total 240 samples obtained from Sumatera (Jambi, Palembang). Data ...

In this paper we consider the complete supply chain for a large pulp producer in Sweden. The supply chain is divided up in two parts, the pulp production planning problem and the distribution to customers problem. We focus on the overall problem and the interaction between the partial problems and discuss how to solve these simultaneously in a supply chain logistic support system. We have model...

Over the last decade, the use of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) has increased by a factor of three within the Swedish pulp industry. The effects of pulp mill wastewater in combination with EDTA on metal mobility and the consequences for ecologically relevant organisms have been studied. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid was added to pulp mill effluent water in the laboratory and compared ...

The forest industry is of great importance to the Nordic countries in terms of exports and employment. Today the industry faces tough challenges related to future higher energy prices, increased competition for wood raw material, and a declining demand for traditional paper products. However, there are also possibilities related to the transition to a bio-based economy. This paper focuses on on...