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Neenah Paper announces the relaunch of its Environment Papers premium recycled papers line with fresh, new natural colors and a tactile Raw finish. Created for sustainable communication programs, luxury packaging and all digital print applications, the offering contains 30 to 100 percent postconsumer fibers and is manufactured under sustainable practices.

Sappi Fine Paper North America is seeking entries for the 2014 North American Printer of the Year awards, a competition that recognizes print excellence and innovation across 10 categories for work produced on Sappi papers. In addition to esteemed recognition, judges will select one Printer of the Year among 10 of this year's Gold Award winning finalists to receive up to $20,000 in design support and 5,000 lbs of paper towards marketing and brand initiatives.

The proposed merger of NewPage and Verso Paper may be on the ropes, but it has brought much attention to the oddities of the U.S. market for coated paper.

Though coated-paper companies have the means and the motive to cooperate on pricing, the same is not true for publication printers, even though they have a similar customer base.

The anonymous prosecutor’s comments, The Capitol Forum’s analysis, and my own experience inspired this list of 10 reasons the U.S. market for coated paper is prone to collusion, both legal and illegal:

This week PaperSpecsGallery.com spotlights a corporate identity piece created for Water for People that features a pocket folder, letterhead and business card, that creatively highlights the mission of this organization.

This week PaperSpecsGallery.com calls attention to a promotional piece from Corinne Grassini, a California-born fashion designer and the founder of Society for Rational Dress.

CTI Paper USA's new Glama KRAFT papers for brand packaging and commercial/specialty printing, features a proprietary treatment that enables six-color-plus sheetfed and heat-set web offset printing, as well as production-rated laser/toner printing.

This week, PaperSpecsGallery.com features Wayward Arts magazine's seventh issue, Napkinisms. The printed, embossed and folded squares pay witty homage to the many romantic overtures, great inventions, clever marketing campaigns, and inspiring doodles birthed on cocktail napkins.

Every three years, Clampitt Paper sponsors a special competition for designers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. PaperSpecsGallery.com shows the winning Paper Trail Wine Label.

In an unlikely ménage of capitalism, environmentalism, and rock 'n' roll, on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Steve Liesman of CNBC were jamming with Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for the Rolling Stones, environmentalist, tree farmer.

The paper industry, it seems, has taken a Twainesque position that reports of paper’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Indeed, paper is doing quite well.

Paper comprises one of the most stratified and clearly defined markets in the world. In addition to paper used for printed matter, pulp—the major ingredient—is a primary component in everything from tissue, to paperboard, to newsprint, to containerboard, to various commodities such as coated and non-coated free sheets.

In relative terms, most paper segments enjoyed a strong year in 2013.