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Logging to stop immediately

. . . following an historic agreement

20 major timber companies and 9 environmental groups agreed to protect 170 million acres of boreal forest in Canada.

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Competition amongst the Branded Papers

As many of you may have noticed there has been a marked increase in the price of paper coupled with shortages of the cheaper copier paper that we all use on a daily basis.  For a rundown of the reasons as to why paper price is increasing please click here. In a business sense, this has opened up the market for the slightly more expensive, but generally better quality branded papers such as HP, Navigator, Canon and Datacopy to name but a few. Their everyday quality paper can be viewed as the next step up the ladder from the usual C-grade cheap paper that we tend to buy in bulk, and as such we’ll probably be seeing a lot more advertising and promotions from them as they fight for attention in the marketplace.

We’ll bring you news of any new promotions in the market . . . following last month’s HP promotion we now have Navigator who have just released details of their upcoming promotion, please click here for the details (in a nutshell, you can win a netbook!).

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Canada’s Forest Industry Makes Global Warming Pledge

The world’s largest wood product exporter has pledged to go carbon neutral by 2015 by reforming forestry, paper making and other processes that now contribute dramatically to the greenhouse gas pollution warming of the planet. It won't purchase carbon offsets, either, so it aims to reform its practices in a way that prevents the release of carbon or re-captures as much as was released, according to the Toronto Star. It will address even the amount of paper that ends up in landfills (it's been estimated that 25% of U.S. landfills is paper waste), since paper decomposing releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

This move has a potentially huge significance with Canada being the world’s second largest producer of paper and pulp products and the world’s largest exporter of paper and pulp products.