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Infinity Sign will Also be Used for ISO Standard

Since the international and the U.S. Standards for permanent paper are so similar, ISO has been permitted to use, as part of the ISO standard, NISO's symbol for papers that comply with the requirements. It will look like this:

ISO 9706

It is all right to start using the ISO standard right now, even before it is published, according to a press release from Ivar Hoel, Secretary of ISO/TC 46/SC 10, the committee that formulated the standard, because the specifications will be the same as in the draft circulated in September 1992. That draft was summarized in our last issue, and a copy may be had on request from the Abbey Publications office.

Industrial Paper Chemists will Address Paper Conservators

ARSAG, a French association for scientific research in graphic arts, will hold its second international symposium May 16-20, 1994, in Paris. Simultaneous translation English/French will be provided. The symposium, entitled "Environment and Conservation of Graphic, Photographic and Audiovisual Documents," will consider the effects of pollution and biodeterioration, as well as the conservation of modern materials: paper, optical and magnetic records, and photographic materials.

Seven papers will be presented by chemists more closely allied with the paper industry than with paper conservation:

T. Iversen (STFI, Sweden): Aging of bleached kraft pulp

D. Priest (UMIST, Dept. of Paper Science, Manchester, England): Present state of recycling technology in papermaking

R. Howard (Paprican, Canada): (Title to be confirmed)

F. Abadie-Maumert (FORINDECO, Oslo, Norway): Stabilité au vieillissement artificiel des papiers contenant des pâtes à haut rendement

D. Priest (UMIST, Dept. of Paper Science, Manchester, England): The aging of paper containing chemithermomechanical pulp

X. Zou (Paprican, Canada): The role of lignin in the mechanical permanence of paper

B. de Montgolfier (Papeteries Canson, Annonay, France): (title not yet defined)

The registration fee until February 15 is 1,200 FF. For information write ARSAG, 36, rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris, France.

Company News

• Cross Pointe bought the Badger Paper Mill in Dayton, Ohio, on October 5, making it a three-mill company. All three of the mills are alkaline, and the two Cross Pointe mills in West Carrollton, Ohio (the Miami mill), and Park Falls, Wisconsin, make recycled paper. The Dayton mill is only eight miles from the Miami mill, and it makes recycled paper too.

  The Dayton mill was part of Howard Paper Mills until Fox River bought it in 1991. Badger bought it in 1992. Cross Pointe is the mill's fourth owner in three years.

• In Canada, Ottawa-based E.B. Eddy Forest Products has bought Island Paper Mills Company of New Westminster, British Columbia. They will not be next door to each other, as Cross Pointe's Miami and Dayton mills are, but E.B. Eddy considers Island Paper to be a strategic fit for the company that will strengthen their competitive position in specialty niche paper markets. Eddy's two freesheet mills, across the river from each other in Hull and Ottawa, are both alkaline. Island Paper's lone mill also makes alkaline freesheet papers. (In the U.S., a mill in Port Huron is owned by the American company E.B. Eddy Paper Inc., but the American company is not involved in the acquisition of Island Paper.)
• Also in Canada, Canadian Pacific Forest Products Ltd. (not to be confused with Canadian Pacific Ltd., its parent company) has been put up for sale, after losing almost $650 million in Canadian dollars over the last three years. It has nine mills, of which one makes alkaline freesheet, 800 tons per day. It is in Dryden, Ontario.
• Fletcher Paper Co., whose mill in Alpena, Michigan, makes 85 tpd of alkaline freesheet, has almost quadrupled its productive capacity by its merger with Silver Leaf Paper Corp. on September 15. Silver Leaf had two paper mills, both acid (Watervliet, MI, and Columbus, OH), and one converting operation. The Watervliet mill has two paper machines and produces coated recycled papers. The new Fletcher Paper Co. will have its home office in Alpena, Michigan.