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A View From Canada. Tembec Sawmill and Pneu-Logic Stabilize Pressure
By Rod Smith, Compressed Air Best Practices®
Pneumatic air cylinders play a major role in allowing a modern sawmill to produce at the high-speed production rates required. Stable air pressure is critical to allow the air cylinders to respond in a timely manner and avoid any production delays.
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Tolko’s Paper Mill and Saw Mill Save $215,000 per year
By Ron Marshall, Manitoba Hydro
Power Smart® efficiency measures for compressed air systems at Tolko’s paper mill and sawmill at The Pas are saving the company more than $125,000 a year.  
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Three Energy Efficiency Measures for a Pulp & Paper Mill
By Tim Dugan, P.E., Compression Engineering Corporation
Recently, this major pulp & paper mill made compressed air optimization a mill-wide priority. At the request of the utility company providing energy to the mill, Compression Energy Services performed a comprehensive energy analysis that outlined the following four energy efficiency measures (EEM’s) for the mill to consider.
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Upgraded Cooling System at Paper Mill
By Graham Whitmore
This article reviews two major processes in paper mills: compressed air quality and air compressor cooling.  The central air compressor room was expanded and relocated at the largest privately owned paper mill in Canada.  The compressor space was required by a plant expansion, which would occupy the original compressor space for increased production.
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Saving Water in a Paper Mill
By Rod Smith, Compressed Air Best Practices®
A paper mill in Wisconsin reduced its’ yearly water consumption by 547.5 million gallons and reduced its’ yearly air compressor maintenance costs by $470,000.  
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The Caraustar® Commitment to Sustainability
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Caraustar has 70 years of commitment to recycling and the manufacture of 100% recycled paperboard products. Caraustar recovers 2.4 million tons of paper fiber each year. In the past 5 years Caraustar Mills have:
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Georgia-Pacific Embraces Energy Efficiency, Uses Green Power
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Energy efficiency has always been a priority at Georgia-Pacific, and today Georgia-Pacific facilities self-generate enough energy to meet more than half the company's annual energy needs. As an added benefit, much of that energy is generated from burning renewable biomass fuels, such as bark, wood residue and by-products from the wood pulping process.
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Inappropriate-Use Assessment Saves 1,881 scfm
By Hank Van Ormer, Air Power USA
This factory currently spends $735,757 annually on the electricity required to operate the compressed air system at its plant. The group of projects recommended in the system assessment will reduce these energy costs by an estimated $364,211 (49% of current use). Estimated costs for completing the recommended projects total $435,800. This figure represents a simple payback period of 14.4 months.
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3M Climate Change & Energy Management
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 In 2009, 3M received the ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award for Energy Management from the EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy in recognition of continuous improvement in energy management. 2009 marked the sixth year in a row that 3M has been recognized by ENERGY STAR — a record for an industrial company.
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