The region's manufacturers, with the exception of a weak paper industry, are holding up.
The paper industry consumes a tremendous amount of energy and raw materials: thin cardboard could cut both.
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When he made enough money in the paper industry, he did it, then turned them into a dynasty.
It can then be turned into plantations growing palm oil, rubber and fast-growing trees for the booming pulp-and-paper industry.
Speculation that more industry consolidation may be at hand resulted in investors bidding up other players in the paper industry.
It is either harvested and refined for the paper industry (mostly) or it is recycled again for the paper industry (again mostly).
More useful wood, in this context, mainly means wood that is more useful to the paper industry, an enormous consumer of trees.
Stora, which is one of the world's largest forestry groups, has long been plagued by the boom-bust cycle in the paper industry.
Next in line is the petrochemicals industry, which has already filed a complaint, and the paper industry, which will probably do so soon.
Remember that many investors had pronounced as dead the paper industry in general and IP in particular, in the dawning of the new digital world.
In fact, investment rates for the electricity sector are the lowest of any major industrial sector, with the exception of the pulp and paper industry.
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The oil multinational hopes its improved trees, now growing in test sites in Uruguay and Chile, will prove a boon to the pulp and paper industry.
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The paper industry argues that recycling paper and managed tree growth make using paper cheaper and easier on the environment than the cost of recycling computer components.
The food industry starts at only about 5 billion kWh today, but grows to more than 50 billion kWh in 2035, nearly matching the pulp and paper industry.
The business, which produces pulp for the paper industry, had to pay close attention to the currency markets as its costs were in euros and its prices in dollars.
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This punishment explains why, for the first time ever, the American paper industry recorded a decline in overall capacity last year: big firms shut down plants after completing takeovers.
The first is that the paper industry is in many ways a commodity business, and in a commodity business any more than one serious competitor is enough to produce a price war.
Consolidation periodically sweeps through the paper industry.
The company, which now employs 17, 700 people around the world, supplies plant, equipment, and services for hydropower stations and the pulp and paper industry, and is also involved in the production of animal feed and biomass pellets, among other ventures.
But between 2001 and 2011, U.S. annual consumption of daily-newspaper newsprint plunged an estimated 61% to 3.6 million tons and annual consumption of paper used for printing, note pads and more fell roughly 38%, according to Vertical Research Partners, which tracks the paper industry.
It, like eBay, has turned an archaic paper-based industry into an efficient digital marketplace.
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"It is a work of great fantasy and charm that will delight children ages 3 to 100, " writes Deborah Young in the industry paper.
Industry paper The Hollywood Reporter suggested that Wrath of the Titans director Liebesman was implicit in persuading Fox - who once labelled Bay a "tyrant" - to take the role.
That will take time: even after gobbling up Champion, in the industry's biggest deal ever, International Paper, the giant of the industry, has only a meagre 6% share of the world market.
Most of Africa "is a bit of a blank piece of paper for the hospitality industry, " says Alex Kyriakidis, chief of Marriott's Middle East and Africa division.
Ever since Johannes Gutenberg developed movable type around 1439, making machines for putting ink on paper has been a growth industry.
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After years of winning awards for coverage of the space industry, the paper decided to try its hand at the World Wide Web.
As the industry moves from paper records to electronic health records (EHR), protected health information (PHI) is now more susceptible to exposure than ever.
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While the real test for the secondary markets will come later this year, many in the industry say even paper gains will add fuel to the already frothy valuations in the secondary marketplace.
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