Three Sappi Fine Paper North America mills have each achieved triple chain-of-custody (CoC) certifications to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Forest Stewardship Council, and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification programs: Somerset Mill in Skowhegan, Maine; Muskegon Mill in Muskegon, Mich.; and Cloquet Mill in Cloquet, Minn. In addition, the Cloquet and Somerset Mills are also certified to the Sustainable Forestry Initiatives’ Fiber Sourcing program. All certifications were achieved through independent third-party audits managed by Bureau Veritas Certification.
Muskegon, Mich.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 170 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
IN A WAY, Pete Hoekema’s career has been book-ended by In-Plant Graphics magazine. In a 1975 article, we caught him at the beginning of his career, when he was a printing manager at the Foremost Insurance in-plant, overseeing 14 employees and dreaming of expanding into color printing. Today, after 30+ years as graphics manager at Muskegon Community College, Hoekema is looking forward to his retirement in December. “It’s been great,” he says of his career, almost all of which has been spent in the former logging community of Muskegon, Mich., along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. Hoekema was born not far
Insourcing can bring in revenue to fund new equipment, while keeping your underutilized machines busy. But controversy surrounds the topic. In June of 1997, Larry Sutherland was a little anxious. With outsourcing on the minds of so many business executives, the former manager of Eastman Chemical Creative Services worried that his Kingsport, Tenn.-based shop might be the next to fall in the name of cutting corporate costs. So he decided to take the offensive. "We went to management and said, 'We think we can reduce our costs by bringing in income and offsetting our costs,' " Sutherland recalls. What he had in mind was
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