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When you build something, you make sure that you have your materials and your toolbox handy. The same is true when you create a print project.

Neenah Paper obviously provides the materials, an unsurpassed selection of premium uncoated papers. They now also provide the toolbox to help you choose and efficiently specify their papers for any type of project.

Maybe you’ve used swatchbooks and print promotions for reference when choosing papers in the past. And while nothing can replace the tactile nature of paper, Neenah’s online tools are a close second to the real deal.

For more information about what Neenah Paper has to offer, visit www.neenahpaper.com.

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 “Long before recycling and the expression “sustainable development” became popular, Antonio Lemaire and his three sons were already incorporating recycling into the family business.

“One person’s trash is another person’s treasure,” recounts a recent edition of the Cascades newsletter.

“It was in his family’s kitchen that Antonio Lemaire conducted chemistry rather than cooking experiments while trying to make a pulp from old cardboard boxes. The founding of Drummond Pulp & Fiber in 1957 stems directly from one such experiment that involved combining waste paper with water and conducted with his wife’s electric mixer.

In 1964, Antonio Lemaire and his sons officially started the manufacture of paper from recycled fibers when purchasing a mill in Kinsey Falls (Quebec) that was formerly owned and decommissioned by Dominion Paper Co. With this acquisition, Cascades Paper Inc. was established.”

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) announced the 2011 recovery rate of paper consumed in the U.S., which has reached a record-high 66.8 percent.

The level of paper recovery for recycling achieved in 2011 is nearly double the industry benchmark of 33.5 percent set in 1990, the year the industry established its first recovery goal.

Arjobex was at drupa this month showing off its synthetic paper offering – Polyart – with more options than you may remember.

A Polyart Digital can now be used for short, customized and just-in-time runs. Polyart Digital is HP Indigo certified on all series including the new 5600 and includes weights of 72, 124, 154, 224 and 274 gsm.

Polyart synthetic papers have also enhanced the creative appeal with a range of iridescent coatings that comes in a set of opalescent shades (gold, blue and green). This adds an interesting sheen. Polyart Iridescent comes in special grades for IML, Wet Glue and Self-adhesive as well.

When that meeting or conversation gets off to a rocky start – whether tense words are exchanged or you just don’t seem to be connecting – it’s time to push the reset button. There’s one phrase that can turn it all around.

Has this ever happened to you? You’re talking to a client, or perhaps your boss, and you realize the conversation has gotten off on absolutely the wrong foot. You may have learned new and unexpected information from the other person that renders everything you’ve said irrelevant.

You may have walked in with an assumption that was just not true. Or, you find you’re not connecting, and tension and anger start to creep into the exchange. It really doesn’t matter. What does matter is that a potentially productive business conversation has become awkward and stilted – or even worse, superheated and combative.

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