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Three years ago, Appleton Paper Co. decided to make money. An excellent pursuit for a company, you would think. But as with all businesses, not so easy as it sounds. The money in question is U.S. currency, more specifically the very high-tech paper used to print it. The Appleton, Wis., papermaker planned an expensive makeover to compete for the $400 million contract to supply the government with currency paper when the contract went up for bid this spring. Appleton, an employee-owned company, figured to spend more than $70 million upgrading one of its three paper mills, enabling...
...proper equipment, that the equipment is equal and that the course is fair," says Campbell. "You can't have one lane catching a current. After that, it's a matter of how technical the organizers want to get. I can bring computers and digital cameras and give a high-tech flavor to the event, or you can have four people with stopwatches at the finish line...
...Foster City, Calif., company's sales got a boost in 2003 when the entire Australian national team ordered Burnwater paddles. Chang sells about 100 paddles a month, six times as many as he sold two years ago, and has competition from a handful of other companies making their own high-tech paddles. "The way I look at it, the more competition we have in the market, the better it is for growing the sport." Now there's a team player...
Reconciling Pixar's postmodern culture with the Disney tradition seems tough. But if high-tech Lightning McQueen could find his destiny in retro Radiator Springs, why can't Lasseter find a way to turn yesterday into tomorrow at Disney? He's surely shown opposites can attract in his wonderful new film. Existing both in turbo-charged today and the gentler '50s, straddling the realms of Pixar styling and old Disney heart, this new-model Cars is an instant classic...
...waste in concrete before taking it all to a landfill. The price, along with Nisbet's unease about burdening the landfill, bothered him enough to seek another solution. He found one in St. Charles, Mo., paying EPC the same price to recycle an even larger load of high-tech trash...