In our efforts to bring you timely and useful information, we have started “2nd Tuesday Surveys.” Once a month, on the second Tuesday of the month, we are surveying our worldwide audience on a contemporary topic of interest to the Pulp and Paper Industry. We did our first survey, on energy, in November, and you can find the summarized results in our PaperMoney® departments list in the left hand column, under, naturally, “2nd Tuesday Surveys.” This month, we are surveying mills to find out their capital plans for 2009.

Please take a look at the summary and, we hope, you will take a couple of minutes to answer the survey each month. We will not have more than 15–18 questions on each survey and they should just take a couple of minutes to answer. If, for some reason, you are not getting the survey questions and would like to be a respondent, please email me at jthompson@taii.com with “2nd Tuesday Survey” in the subject line.