Company purchases pulp mill in Halsey.
Byline: Ilene Aleshire The Register-Guard Pope & Talbot's Halsey pulp mill has been sold to one of its creditors, Ableco Finance of New York, and union officials are hoping that it may re-open next week. The mill, which employed about 180 people, abruptly closed last month after...

Pope & Talbot's bitter end.
Byline: The Register-Guard Pope & Talbot has been a part of Oregon since before Oregon was a state. Now it is gone, having received permission from a bankruptcy judge last week to close its remaining mills and turn its assets over to a trustee for liquidation. ...

Halsey mill to reopen Monday.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard HALSEY - The former Pope & Talbot pulp mill in Halsey is set to reopen on Monday under new ownership, and the new owners hope to have pulp to sell by the end of the week, the mill's manager said Friday....

New abaca pulp mill put up in Eastern Leyte.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA A new abaca pulp milling facility has been put up by Specialty Pulp Mills Inc. (SPMI) in Eastern Leyte as one of a string of expansion activities in the abaca sector that is trying to meet brisk demand for specialty abaca uses in...

Bold plan for dirty river.
Byline: The Register-Guard There's an old saying in guru circles: Don't push the river; it flows by itself. But when it comes to cleaning up a major waterway like the Willamette River, it often takes a lot of pushing before results start flowing. Back in...

Toxic materials taint the lifeblood of our society.
Byline: Joe Thornton For The Register-Guard EUGENE IS FULL of healthy people who eat organic food, and the pulp mills are all downstream from here. So you might think that our bodies ought to be more or less free of toxic chemicals. Three scientific studies...

ARCADIS takes part in Brazil's Emergency Energy Program.
ARCADIS (Nasdaq:ARCAF; Euronext: ARCAD), Arnhem, The Netherlands, has announced that ARCADIS Logos in Brazil, in which the company has a 51% stake, has signed three agreements to deliver electrical energy to the Brazilian government. ARCADIS has signed the agreements as a partner in different consortia in which...

Saving the Willamette.
Byline: The Register-Guard It wasn't all that many years ago that the clean-up of the Willamette River was regarded as a national environmental success story. Times have changed, and so has the river. Now, the Willamette is in a sorry state of environmental...

Negros Or starts drive to increase abaca yield.
DUMAGUETE CITY (PNA) a" Negros Oriental, in cooperation with the Fiber Industry Development Authority (FIDA), has embarked on a project that will boost reforestation efforts and increase abaca production in the province. The "Abakahoyan" Development Project, which received an initial funding of R500,000 from the provincial government,...

Paper: what ever happened to the paperless office? This utopian dream seems to have been buried beneath a mountain of email print outs. Andrew Brackenbury asks what went wrong.
Wherever you're reading this, pause for a moment and consider what's in your hands. These words have been printed on glossy sheets of one of the building blocks of modern society--paper. Now look around you--from the magazine you're holding to your morning cup of coffee, the bag holding your...