paperloop daily news for Monday, Nov. 26, 2001 p a p e r l o o p . c o m   d a i l y   n e w s   s e r v i c e  Welcome to paperloop.com, the premier  information and exchange service for the  pulp, paper, converting, and printing industries.  MONDAY, Nov. 26, 2001    ---------------------------------------------------------- IN THIS ISSUE: ---------------------------------------------------------- * Top Stories * Last Week's Top Stories * Paperloop.com Services * E-Storefront of the Week * Advertise in this Newsletter * Subscribe / Unsubscribe * Contact Us ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Track share prices for key companies in paperloop.com's Stock  Quotes center. Data include day's high and low, 52-week high  and low, EPS and P/E ratio.     ----------------------------------------------------  HEADLINES AT A GLANCE:  ----------------------------------------------------  * Japan's paper and board producers see half-year net profits slashed * Portucel privatization set for 1st quarter of next year * Strike ends at Finch, Pruyn mill, unions accept company's contract offer * Pactiv announces sale of single-faced corrugated business * U.S. trade panel sets March 26th hearing on Canada lumber --------------------------------------------------- See full stories at:    Or, scroll down to read story highlights.  ----------------------------------------------------  TODAY'S TOP STORIES:  Japan's paper and board producers see half-year net profits slashed SINGAPORE, Nov. 26, 2001 - Japan's pulp and paper  companies have been adversely affected by the global  economic slowdown. Producers faced decreased sales  and in most cases, net profits plunged by double-digit  figures. ****************************************** 	   ****Advertisement**** Ronningen-Petter filters are designed to increase  mill uptime, efficiency and profitability by  addressing filtration for raw water intake; nozzle  protection; additives and coatings; and, resource  recovery needs for water, thermal and resource  recovery materials. Ronningen-Petter filters are  available through RPA Process Technologies.   Visit our storefront:  Email your inquiries to  ****************************************** Portucel privatization set for 1st quarter of next year OVAR, Portugal, Nov. 23, 2001 - The Portuguese government  plans to sell 25% of Portucel in the first quarter of 2002. ....................................................  Strike ends at Finch, Pruyn mill, unions accept company's contract offer NEW YORK Nov. 23, 2001 - Union employees at Finch,  Pruyn & Co. in Glens Falls, N.Y., ended their  five-month-old strike today, after reluctantly accepting  a new five year contract offer from the company identical  to one they rejected only a week before. ****************************************** 		****Advertisement**** Successfully "powering" paper mill operations since 1990,  "The AIM Mill System" was redesigned from the ground up  in 1998-1999. AIM software engineers, working closely  with Paper Mill personnel in every department of  administration, sales, customer service and quality  control, rebuilt an already competent software system to  a high-level status including centralized or decentralized  operations, e-commerce, EDI, systems integration with  converting plants, electronic integration with client  systems and on-line access for your out-of-house sales reps.  "The AIM Mill System" is a proven software design that has  elicited compliments from users in all of our installations. Call us now and we will arrange a site visit to one of  our clients. Or, if you prefer, we will visit your plant  for an in-house demonstration.    Contact D.J. Martin 1-800-331-4466 Ext. 18.  Or email to: DJMartsoft@aol.com ****************************************** Pactiv announces sale of single-faced corrugated business LAKE FOREST, Ill. Nov. 26, 2001 - Pactiv Corporation  today announced the sale of its single-faced corrugated  business based in The Netherlands to Palm Industrie  Beteiligungs GmbH Co. KG. ....................................................  U.S. trade panel sets March 26th hearing on Canada lumber WASHINGTON, Nov 26, 2001 - The U.S. International Trade  Commission announced it would hold a hearing on March  26th as part of its investigation into whether Canada is  unfairly dumping softwood lumber in the U.S. market. ******************************************            ****Advertisement****  New from clickpaper.com...Price Limit Orders  enable Clickpaper Registered Users to  electronically present their own pricing to  Enron. Have five minutes to take a tour?  View the exciting new tools and screens  available at Clickpaper.com:    ----------------------------------------------------  LAST WEEK'S TOP STORIES ----------------------------------------------------  What stories hold the greatest interest for paperloop.com  readers? Check out this list of the top five news stories  from last week, based on your visits from paperloop.com's  daily email newsletter.  1. Dynegy takeover could impact Enron's forest products group 2. EC greenlights UPM-Kymmene's acquisition of Haindl 3. Asian pulp market firms up and trading increases 4. Burgo tests huge new LWC machine at its Verzuolo plant in Italy 5. 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