Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kimihiro Nozawa, the head of technology research at Oriental, was determined to reinvent the paper shredder. The project took him ...

At Purdue University, engineers have developed a new technology that can transform sheets of paper from a notebook into a human-machine interface. Purdue's process could also make food packaging ...

Researchers have developed an automatic drawing machine that uses pens and pencils to draw metamaterials -- artificially engineered composite materials that derive their properties from patterned ...

Robust and well-maintained control system optimization, advanced process control, and model-based predictive control can increase production, decrease costs, and autonomously operate the mill of the ...

South Africa-based forest products and paper company Sappi is undertaking a conversion process from graphic paper to packaging board on one of its paper machines at its mill in Somerset County, Maine.

Dedicated September 26, 2001, at the Savannah Pulp and Paper Laboratory (now the Herty Advanced Materials Development Center) in Savannah, Georgia. When Georgia chemist Charles Holmes Herty found a ...

VPK Paper, a division of Belgium-based VPK Packaging, has successfully started up its rebuilt paper machine at its paper mill in Oudegem Belgium. The comprehensive rebuild was supplied by the ...