Boise Inc. to Restructure Pacific Northwest Pulp and Paper Assets.
* Will permanently eliminate pulp manufacturing and 200,000 TPY of uncoated freesheet paper production at St. Helens, Oregon, mill * Initiative expected to enhance EBITDA margins and generate positive cash flow BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boise Inc. , a leading manufacturer of packaging...

Amphoteric starch in simultaneous process preparation with Box-Behnken design for optimal conditions.
INTRODUCTION Cassava starch is an important food ingredient in tropical countries such as Brazil, Nigeria, Indonesia and Thailand. Cassava starch has often been modified, and Thailand is also a country where modified starch from cassava starch is produced in large scale (1). The traditional starch modifications are...

Cablevision Adds to iO TV HD Line-Up.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-30 July 2008-Cablevision Adds to iO TV HD Line-Up(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Cablevision Systems announced the addition of 15 new high-definition channels to its iO TV HD line-up, which now features 60 channels of diverse HD programming, all available to iO TV customers without the...

Cisco firms up VC plan for India.
Byline: Ritwik Donde MUMBAI: Global networking major Cisco is aggressively stepping up its next phase of investments in India, further to its $100 million investment in India so far. The company is scouting the region for equity investments in media, broadband and real estate, Cisco Ventures managing...

TRAI 'broadcasts' to I&B for increasing penetration.
Byline: Meenakshi Verma & Joji Thomas Philips NEW DELHI: Sector regulator TRAI is batting for tax cuts for the broadcast industry and has written to the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting seeking that the government dole out tax sops to the digital cable and DTH sectors. The...

In case of parallel litigation where parties' contract contained clause designating Australian court as proper forum, Federal Court of Australia rules that, where defending U.S. party's challenge to its jurisdiction is still pending, Australian party's request for notices for U.S. party to produce documents is premature.
Smurfit Stone Container Corporation (Plaintiff), headquartered in Chicago, IL, installed technology proprietary to Armacel Pty. Ltd. of Australia (Defendant) at its corrugated cardbord plant in Pennsylvania. It appears, however, that the technology did not perform as expected and caused regulatory compliance problems. In October 2007, Plaintiff brought...

Flower power; Show an early spring touch.
Byline: Nancy Sheehan Leave all the ice and snow behind and take a walk down Spring Street. The cherry trees are blooming, the daffodils growing, the tulips glowing, the roses vining and the nasturtiums twining at the Central Massachusetts Flower Show, which runs today through...

Smurfit-Stone to Announce Earnings Wednesday, January 24, 2007.
CHICAGO, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation will announce fourth quarter earnings before the market opens on Wednesday, January 24. Management of the company will discuss results via live webcast at 8:00 a.m. CT (9:00 a.m. ET) the same day. Interested parties may join the webcast, which includes...

Momentary Momentum.
'Momentary Momentum' has the feel of a major biennale show, drawing together 20 international artists with a single connecting thread--animated drawing. Animation, by the nature of its production, lends itself very well to introversion which, it seems, can lead to whimsy--and this can be a positive characteristic. The French...

Smurfit-Stone Reports Fourth Quarter 2006 Profit of $22 Million.
Solid performance driven by favorable pricing, excellent mill productivity, and benefits from the company's strategic initiatives program CHICAGO, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation today reported net income available to common stockholders of $22 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2006....