Discusses how businesses in Massachusetts are coping with the price increase of paper. Supply and demand situation of the commodity; Tactics employed by MassMutual Insurance Co., BayBank and Big Y Foods; Effect of the shortage on paper intensive industries like banking and newspaper publishing.
PAPER, PRESERVATION of materials, NONPROFIT organizations
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Reports on the nonprofit Northeast Document Conservation Center's work on paper conservation in Andover, Massachusetts. Institutions served by the center; Recent restoration projects of the cener.
The article reports on the move of Micrex Corp. based in Walpole, Massachusetts to install a new 2.2 metre-wide Microcreper line based on its large main roll architecture, allowing the company to perform commercial trials and expand the uses of the technology further into the realm of recycled papers and cellulosic composites. Micrex is said to be exploring the substitution of petrochemical-based nonwoven substrates with microcreped papers for a variety of applications.
The article reports that researchers at the Whitesides Research Group at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, might have found a way to make micro fluidics technology much cheaper. According to a "Technology Review" report, the researchers do it by taking advantage of the natural movement of liquid through paper. It is inferred that the result of the study could be disposable diagnostic tests simple and abundant enough for use in the developing world. It states that George Whitesides and his team at Harvard have built a micro fluidic device on a square of paper the size of a pinky fingernail.