Special Report: The Three Ps - Smart Specifying, The Paper Principle

These mergers and acquisitions have yielded benefits and challenges for paper producers and clients alike. Many of these deals have promised to streamline mill operations and provide more efficient means for distribution.

But an industry ripe with buy-ups and newly forming partnerships often leaves print buyers and their suppliers anxious—uneasy about pricing shifts and customer service. All the more reason for catalogers to become more active in specifying substrates for their print titles, said Mike Evans, market development manager, DuPont White Pigment and Mineral Products, at the April 2002 Print Oasis conference.