NewPage paper company will temporarily lay off about 120 hourly maintenance workers (at its Rumford, ME mill) next week, mill spokesman Anthony Lyons said Tuesday. A couple of years ago, the company idled some of its paper machines at Rumford Paper, temporarily laying off between 50 and 300 workers.
Stepping into The World Bank’s bright, spacious Printing & Multimedia Services operation on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., one is immediately struck by how much this in-plant has advanced from its days in the basement of the Bank’s downtown D.C. headquarters.
NewPage Corp. has successfully completed its financial restructuring and has officially emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection pursuant to its Modified Fourth Amended Chapter 11 Plan confirmed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington.
The Unisource Chicago Paper Show—an exclusive, invitation-only event—attracts approximately 1,000 of the leading designers and commercial printers from around the Chicago area. It will be held on Nov. 5, 2012, at the historic Hilton Chicago Hotel, in downtown Chicago.
Our 2012 Paper Buyers’ Guide will show you, at a glance, which vendors offer which types of paper. The chart here lists paper suppliers alphabetically
To help spread the word about its new Sterling Premium papers—reengineered to provide enhanced optics, a smooth surface and premium shade—NewPage is hosting a weekly giveaway at www.ItShiftsEverything.com. There, printers and designers can sign up for the contest and watch a video to learn more about this new paper.
Stora Enso North America Corp., a former unit of the Finnish commercial printing products company, must face an antitrust lawsuit brought by its customers, a federal appeals court ruled, reversing a trial judge’s dismissal of the case. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan said today that a jury could potentially find that the company, which was sold to Newpage Corp. in 2007, conspired to fix prices.
NewPage Corp. has introduced Sterling Premium, Sterling Premium Digital and Sterling Premium Digital for HP Indigo. The company's Sterling brand has been reengineered to provide enhanced optics, an extremely smooth surface and premium shade.
Xanté Symphony Workflow is a comprehensive, turnkey PDF workflow featuring support for both the Adobe PDF Print Engine and Adobe PostScript 3. It drives all output devices (platesetters, imagesetters, laser printers, digital color presses, copiers, inkjet printers and plotters) from one RIP. Symphony Workflow’s scanning, trapping, screening, advanced imposition and ganging, Pantone Color Libraries support, and color proofing features are available for all output devices. Symphony Workflow automates tedious, error-prone prepress tasks and offers enhanced imposition that allows mixing of page sizes and orientations on a press sheet.
NewPage Corp. announced that, to facilitate an orderly debt restructuring and position the overall business for long-term success, its corporate parent, NewPage Group and certain parts of its U.S. subsidiaries have commenced voluntary cases under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (“Chapter 11”).
