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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Paper Industry"”.
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China's Paper Industry: Growth and Environmental Policy during Economic Reform
… examines the performance of China's pulp and paper industry under environmental regulations, and reflects on the implementation of the regulations, and especially on market-based instruments. The dissertation includes two empirical chapters: one uses a frontier production function model to …
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TURBULENCE IN INDUSTRIAL POPULATIONS: THE CASE OF THE ITALIAN GRAPHIC PAPER INDUSTRY
… means of a new database for the Italian graphic papermaking industry between 1964 and 2004, this research inquires into the extent and character of entry and exit in an industry where innovation in products and processes has been incremental and largely predictable and, therefore, unlikely to be …
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Industrial Relations in the Pulp and Paper Industry in the Atlantic Region
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T17:52:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6901365.pdf: 12296033 bytes, checksum: 413616972f767b7759e993603cada7f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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Nuclear process heat and the paper industry- with special reference to New England
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Industrial Management, 1960
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Wood as an energy source in the Kraft pulp-paper industry of the southeastern United States
… from wood. Its objective is to provide guides to industry managers that will enable them to better assess wood's fuel potential. It is written with this business audience in mind. An introductory section describes the "energy crisis" as nothing more than a radical shift in relative prices, …
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Managerial Knowledge, Expansion Trajectories, and Competitive Advantage Among Large Firms in the United States Paper Industry, 1973--1992
Results of empirical tests provide support for theoretical predictions that link attributes of the firm's top management team with the firm's capacity expansion path. Specifically, top management teams hiring managers from large firms, from large plants, and from slow-growth plants are likely to …
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A system analysis of converting non-recyclable plastic waste into value-added products in a paper industry cluster
… of non-recyclable plastic waste get collected in paper recycling plants in Muzaffamagar and other regions in India. The plastic waste is typically in the form of protective covers, thin film, binding coils etc., which gets separated from paper during the pulping process. Because of its low value …
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Ex ante assessment of secondary impacts of environmental regulation: case study--organochlorines in the Canadian pulp and paper industry
… of organochlorines in the Canadian pulp and paper industry via federal regulation of dioxins and furans and British Columbia's regulation of Adsorbable Organic Halogen (AOX). The thesis is founded upon the premise that sustainability must be an integral consideration. A systems approach is …
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The use of the real options approach in valuing the impact of climate change on the pulp and paper industry in South Africa : a case study of Sappi
An emerging valuation technique, real options analysis, has been found to provide insight on value in situations of high uncertainty. Based on financial options theory, it values options relating to real assets. For example, if a company has the option to delay the manufacture of a patented product …
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An international trade analysis for selected paper products
The future of the American paper industry remains uncertain. A growing South and the nation's continued reliance on trade for a significant proportion of its domestic needs is of concern to the industry and the nation. The probable consequences of past and potential changes in the demand for and …
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Greening the invisible hand : how environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) succeed and fall in technology change
… cleaner production technologies in the pulp and paper industry from 1980-1998. The environmental organizations were: Greenpeace Sweden, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Environmental Defense, Greenpeace USA, and Natural Resources Defense Council. The technologies they tried to diffuse …
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Oil palm residue biodelignification by bacillus cereus ligninase from coptotermus curvignathus gut for handsheet production
… unfriendly. Meanwhile, the demand for paper substantially increased with declined wood fibres. In this study, Bacillus cereus isolated from termite species Coptotermes curvignathus gut’s bacteria was tested for biodelignification capability on palm oil biomasses: oil palm leaves (OPL), …
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Integer cutting stock procedures
… a general integer cutting stock model for paper industry applications. Of the several integer programming and discrete alternative approaches that existed, the combinatorial programming procedure of Pierce was chosen as the most reliable and practical for cutting stock applications. …
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Energy utilisation in selected industrial sectors in South Africa
… industries are: The Structural Clay Products Industry, The Portland Cement Industry, The Glass Making Industry, The Iron and Steel Industry, The Pulp and Paper Industry.
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The classification of acoustic emission signals via artificial neural network
… species is a long desired goal in the pulp and paper industry. Motivated by this, researchers have investigated Pattern Recognition (PR) for the classification of wood chip species based on acoustic emission signals. In this thesis, a new Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach is proposed to …
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Analysis of Policy Reforms in the New Zealand Forest Manufacturing Sector
… shocks to the forest sector. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impacts of these reforms on wood and paper industry cost, production, and cost efficiency. Unlike previous work, the effects of privatization and deregulation are compared to determine which shock had the most influence on …
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Modeling of the hydrodynamics within the header of a tubular membrane module.
… control and chemical recovery in the pulp and paper industry. However, the treatment of pulp suspensions with modules containing tubes having an inside diameter of less than 2.54 cm is typically problematic. Severe blockage occurs at the inlet of the tubes due to the accumulation of pulp fibers …
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Separation and purification of the resins in tallol
… the fatty acids of tallol a waste product of the paper industry. The furfural-water and furfural-petroleum ether methods were investigated. In the first method, a 5% solution of water in furfural by weight was used as a polar solvent with solvent to tallol ratios of 1-1, 2-1, and 3-1 by weight and …
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