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...cargo of these outbound ships tends to be on the less-than-glamorous side. The Savannah port's top export by volume is wood pulp. Other biggies include paper and paperboard, "drilling mud," kaolin clay, fabric and frozen chicken parts--in particular, chicken feet, beloved by Chinese gourmets. "We're sending raw materials to foreign countries, and in return, generally speaking, we're receiving finished goods," says John Trent, director of operations for the Georgia Ports Authority, which runs the Savannah port and a smaller operation in Brunswick that specializes in cars and bulk materials. What goes out weighs more...
...Welch has what some might call a full plate. She oversees hiring, training and performance management for the Norcross, Ga.-based packaging and recycled paperboard manufacturer's 10,000 employees. Add responsibility for employee and union relations, corporate communications and corporate citizenship and diversity for the $2.2 billion company...
These stylish shelters were a big hit at the Burning Man festival this summer, but they're not just for fun. Fashioned from a single piece of laminated paperboard (plus a floor and a door), they are sturdy, wind resistant, waterproof, well insulated and require no special skills or tools to assemble--perfect, according to their inventor, for use as temporary housing in a war or a natural disaster. The Shade Pod, an open-air version with legs, is just right for lawn parties. INVENTOR Sanford Ponder AVAILABILITY Next summer, starting at $745 TO LEARN MORE icosavillage.net...
About 39% of the paper and paperboard going into landfills and incinerators comes from packaging. The German example shows how that number can be dramatically reduced. Lever Bros., for instance, manufactures a superconcentrated powder laundry detergent in small boxes, saving the equivalent of 13 million plastic bottles a year. L & F Products sells its Lysol brand and other liquid cleaners in Smart Packs that take up 65% less landfill space than the jet-spray containers they are designed to refill. Imperial Chemical Industries of London has developed a plastic, soon to be distributed in the U.S., that biodegrades with...
...forest-products business. It entered the field almost by accident, purchasing half a million acres of prime East Texas timberland as part of a long-term drive to find secure paper supplies for its magazines. The forest-products unit grew into a major producer of pulp and paperboard, although it never manufactured paper for the publications. In 1973 Time Inc. acquired Temple Industries, a large Texas producer of building products, and in 1978 it added Inland Container Corp., an Indianapolis-based manufacturer of containers and containerboard...