• Fearing the environmental damage the paper plants might cause, Argentines on the river have been demanding a halt to their construction.

    ECONOMIST: Argentina and Uruguay

  • These boxes can coordinate the more complex arrays of tasks required in food, beverage and paper plants--new territory for Rockwell--and zip production data to back-office computers so customers can react sooner to blips in supply and demand.

    FORBES: Choreographer of the Assembly Line

  • Reduced flow rates on China's greatest rivers have made hydro plants reduce badly needed power output: many smelters, paper mills and petrochemical plants are no longer sure of getting the huge amounts of water they require.

    ECONOMIST: China and water

  • During the first half of the 20th century, the steel plants, paper mills and auto factories that employed millions along the lakes also left behind blight.

    WSJ: Great Lakes region pins economic hopes on water

  • By 2000 American Tissue's empire stretched from Oregon to New York and included eight mills capable of producing 919, 000 tons of pulp and paper annually, 8 product-producing plants and 12 distribution centers.

    FORBES: Paper Trail

  • He first worked his way up the executive ranks of International Paper by boosting the quality of its products, shutting down marginal plants and investing heavily in others.

    CNN: Turnaround Guy

  • Effective July 1, 2011, this would essentially put EPA in the corporate boardrooms and boiler houses of electrical power plants, refineries, iron and steel mills, pulp and paper mills and cement production facilities.

    FORBES: Memo To The EPA: Don't Mess With Texas!

  • Participants also ward off evil during the festival by bathing in flower-scented water, wearing five-colour silk, hanging plants such as moxa and calamus over their doors, and pasting paper cut-outs in their windows.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • This punishment explains why, for the first time ever, the American paper industry recorded a decline in overall capacity last year: big firms shut down plants after completing takeovers.

    ECONOMIST: Paper

  • Now Paramount's retooled plants churn out wrappers that can keep chocolate bars fresh for months longer than paper wrappers ever did--on store shelves from balmy Thailand to chilly Alaska.

    FORBES: BEMIS Bag Man

  • According to Virginia Walbot, a botanist at Stanford University who is one of the Nature paper's authors, the Arabidopsis sequence will be a boon to researchers working on economically important plants, such as maize, that have large genomes which are harder to alter experimentally.

    ECONOMIST: The Arabidopsis genome

  • "New leaf" refers not to the world of plants, but to the formal, even archaic, term for a two-sided piece of paper.

    CNN: In the new year, be a first responder

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