Northbrook, IL, USA – July 12, 2018—ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, today announced that the ISSA Show Mexico 2019 will deliver significantly greater value to participants by way of co-located events and an additional curriculum geared specifically to cleaning and maintenance professionals.

CINCINNATI, OH – Distributor Partners of America (DPA), a member-driven buying & marketing group, recently announced the recipient of its prestigious Founder’s Award at its annual Buying & Networking Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. This year’s Founder’s Award was the eleventh given in the group’s history and the honor went to Colker Company (Pittsburgh, PA).

CINCINNATI, OH – The DPA Buying Group recognized its 10 & 15-year members at the 2017 DPA buying and networking conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Four distributor companies were honored with special membership milestone pins at the group’s award banquet.

CINCINNATI, OH – The DPA Buying Group is pleased to announce its 2017 JanSan Distributor and Supplier of the Year recipients. Congratulations to DPA JanSan Distributor of the Year, State Janitorial Supply (Dover, DE) and DPA JanSan Supplier of the Year, Deb USA (Charlotte, NC). The awards were presented at DPA’s annual Buying and Networking Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

GRAZ, JULY 6, 2018 -- The ANDRITZ pulp drying plant installed at UPM’s Kymi mill in Kouvola, Finland, achieved a new record production capacity of 2,452 tons per day on May 31, 2018. In terms of specific drying capacity, this equals 389.2 tons per day and meter of working width on the 6.3 meter wide sheet drying machine, which is a new world record for drying of bleached birch and pine kraft. The mill was started up successfully in 2015 and has achieved several production records since then.

Seattle, USA - Strong pulp markets and record high prices for both softwood and hardwood market pulp resulted in upward price pressures on wood fiber throughout the world in the 1Q/18, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). The Global Softwood Fiber Price Index (SFPI) was up by 3.4% from the 4Q/17 to the 1Q/18, the second highest quarter-toquarter increase in seven years. Softwood prices rose in all 20 regions covered by the WRQ with the exception of Eastern Canada, where chip prices fell 16% q-o-q (in US dollars).

City of Industry, CA – June 28, 2018 – Gordon Brush Mfg. Co., Inc. announced today that the Company is the 2018 winner of the MADE: In America Award. The award will be presented on Monday, July 3 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, to company President and CEO Ken Rakusin. The award will be presented by Congressman and Democratic House Whip, Steny Hoyer (MD-5), in the inaugural All American Room, making its national debut in the Rayburn House Office Building Foyer.

Ludwigshafen, Germany – June 28, 2018 – Driven by continued increases in cost of raw materials, transportation, and energy, as well as restricted availability of selected raw materials, BASF will increase prices for paper wet-end and water chemicals in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) by up to 10 percent, effective July 1, 2018 or as existing contracts allow.

Production at the expanded Östrand pulp mill began according to plan during the midsummer holiday (i.e. this weekend). SCA is investing SEK 7.8bn in the operation and the project is on budget and schedule.

Northbrook, IL, USA—June 25, 2018—Cleaning and Maintenance Management (CMM), an ISSA brand, is pleased to announce the release of the first episode of CMM Frontline—a series of podcasts covering supervisors and employees who work on the front lines of the cleaning industry.