Paper Technology The official journal of the Paper Industry Technical Association Paper Technology The official journal of the Paper Industry Technical Association Volume 47 number 6 September 2006 DON’T MISS THE PITA ENERGY EVENT! SEPTEMBER 21ST – WARRINGTON SEE INSIDE FOR DETAILS [...]... level of the Association from the current 3 to 2 The Board recognised the importance of the role of the Operations Executive in handling all the day to day routine affairs of the Association and therefore decided that position should remain unchanged To achieve the necessary reduction the Board decided that the current role of Commercial Manager would be declared redundant at the end of 2006 and the commercial... part of the production costs in the papermaking process Figure 1 gives an example of the cost structure of paper production These figures show that the bulk of costs are incurred by the capital intensity of the process itself, while energy costs form a large part of the variable costs Profitability may depend on the volatile nature of energy costs because increases in energy prices cut down the margins,... ANNOUNCEMENT The Future Structure of PITA The finances of the Association have been under pressure for some time and as previously reported the financial year 2005 resulted in a very large deficit in excess of £57,000 At the May 2006 meeting of the PITA Board of Directors the Chief Executive included within his report a statement to the effect that he did not believe the income stream of the Association in the. .. result of these comments the Board agreed to hold a special meeting solely to discuss this situation and asked the Chief Executive to prepare a paper outlining the possible options to make the required savings This paper was discussed by the Board of Directors, in the absence of the Chief Executive, at their special meeting on 5th July 2006 The decision of the Board of Directors was to reduce the full... the Grundon management joined the Group for lunch at the Golf Club and provided an insight into the Grundon family history in Waste Management and their current operation The members were then given a tour of the MRF in the afternoon and saw how all the recyclable material from about eight local authorities is sorted by a combination of mechanical screening and hand picking The major product from the. .. and enjoy the friendship that the NESDG was well known for however still in place and an exception was made to allow this visit following the approach to the company by Group Chairman Barry Read who explained the Group’s current interest in the energy situation in the UK Accompanied by a couple of members of the Engineering Group the visitors were given an introduction to the nuclear scene in the UK and... company, the latter being shipped from Chatham as return loads in ships that have brought paper into the UK from Sweden The overriding impression from this visit was the simplicity of the operation and the speed at which it was all happening But why was all that paper in a comingled collection anyway??? At the beginning of August the programme sub committee of The Coating Working Group met at the PITA. .. Working Group met at the PITA office for their first planning meeting for the 2007 Coating Conference In addition to making good progress on ideas for the conference programme under the theme of The 3 Ps of Coating - Printing, Packaging and Point of Sale the members of this committee who are largely the Session Chairmen for the event also took the decision to stage the event at Robinson College, Cambridge... ‘there may be double counting of packaging waste’ These abuses have two baneful effects: i) the revenue raised by the sale of illegitimate PRNs is being diverted from its purpose - the development of the recovery and recycling infrastructure of the UK; ii) the creation of extra PRNs, which should not be on the market, debases the currency, ie the value of the PRNs issued by recycling mills and exporters... foreseeable future could support the current cost base of the Association and the Directors should therefore consider the future structure of the Association with a view to removing £40-50,000 from the cost base He went on to advise the Board that it was his intention to retire from his position as Chief Executive of PITA within the next twelve months and it would therefore be logical for any changes . 40p a therm, the UK gas price is in line with the Henry Hub gas index of the USA rather than the oil index. This shift reflects the rapid growth of the international. in the UK. The essential requirement for competition is the unbundling of the market, ie, the split up of the various func- tions - generation, transmission