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It’s not going to happen overnight but the aim is to increase the 150,000 tonne capacity by 80,000 tonne in the future, according to Industry Edge the paper and pulp industry’s bible.

While everyone at the mill is keen to move to total chlorine free (TCF) production Industry Edge reckons it’s not going to happen in the medium term. Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) is the best that can be hoped for. However, Robert Eastment, the publisher, congratulates PaperlinX management for “grasping the nettle” of investment and not letting the mill die slowly from neglect.

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We can be heroes department. … Nelson Ferrari, the wide format graphic arts marketing manager of HP in Australia, is not the type of bloke to strike Clancy as a great humanitarian; a nice guy certainly but too much like the rest of us to warrant that type of reputation.

Which goes to show how wrong one can be. The bold Nelson has grasped his personal nettle and is winging home to Bolivia for a year to establish an orphanage there for … well, Bolivian orphans. According to HP publicist Alison Stieven-Taylor, Nelson’s made all the right contacts and the venture has government backing.

It’s just so unexpected.

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A few obsessions mar Clancy’s otherwise calm and sagacious existence. One is not wearing clothes with brands or slogans on them. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a shirt that does not sport an identifying logo, such as a crocodile or a bloke playing polo, not to mention the illiterate font massacres of your average t-shirt.

But he will confess to a fondness for his Heidelberg watch, a press freebie from many years ago. He is also happy to throw his unmarked togs into a Heidelberg kitbag when catching a plane. It’s got so much cred it lends cachet.

But now Glenn Plummer, HAN’s general manager product management and marketing, is promoting the global Heidelberg Selection Shop website – Heidelberg where enthusiasts can buy Heidelberg-branded gear from golf balls to scarves. He reckons they make great corporate Christmas gifts.

But if everyone starts wearing them…

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The fickle finger of fame and fate has fallen on one Brian Mandelbaum, 24, director of business development of New York City-based True Type Printing. The graphic arts executive is picked as one of Donald Trump’s foils in the latest season of the television show, ‘The Apprentice.’ He is the first of our bunch ever to make it onto the high-rating show, so we’re hoping he’ll meet whatever deadlines are set him.

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There’s a new air blowing through the corridors of Quark following its near-death experience at the hands of Adobe. In true born-again style the once hard-nosed corporation is now “more open and customer-focused, and we have a focused vision to go with our new attitude,” according to acting president Linda Chase. And there is a new logo.

To give you the full PR spin … “Our new logo is one of the most articulate symbols of the new Quark, and I feel proud to have led the team that worked on it,” said Susan Friedman, senior vice president of strategic relations at Quark.

“It’s a positive sign of change that has re-energized our staff and caught the attention of our customers and partners, who understand that Quark is dedicated to relationships built on trust and mutual goals.”

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And finally … here’s one that's funny enough to transcend the usual carping of the politicals.