Sappi's Somerset paper manufacturing facility in Skowhegan is rebuilding its paper machine two (PM2), which will increase its capacity from 240,000 to 470,000 tons per year. PM2 will be rebuilt by ...

Entire forests and enormous factories running 24/7 can barely keep up with demand. This is how the cardboard economy works. Credit...Photo illustration by Todd St. John Supported by By Matthew Shaer ...

BIRON – There are two large piles outside the Biron paper mill. One includes stacks of logs, cut from a forest and transported to the central Wisconsin village. The other is made up of bales of ...

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Cardboard is generally used as packaging, to house new instruments during transit for example. But we've seen a number of gear innovations that are actually built using cardboard over the years, ...

Inside an Amazon warehouse, when an order gets ready to ship, a worker doesn’t just make a decision about what package seems best. Instead, a suite of machine-learning tools analyze the combination of ...