The recycling paper industry has a good potential market. used recycled such as Old Corrugated Containers (OCC), Newspaper (ONP), mixed waste paper, and Sorted White Ledger (SWL) raw material. In Indonesia, commonly, the got material of about 50% by importing. government provides regulation to ensure sustainability industrial activity, that is process importing internal increase local materials...

High amounts of waste paper are disposed of every year in Iran posing the health hazard and environmental damages instead of being recovered. Collection, recovery and proper disposal of waste paper without damaging the environment need to design an efficient closed-loop supply chain network. The main objective of this paper is introducing a bi-objective, multi-echelon, multi-product and single-...

Membrane separation technologies have recently received much attention, from lab-scale studies to full-scale operations, in the forest industry. However, membrane fouling comprises a signifcant obstacle to their broad application. Thus, to ensure cost-effective operation of membrane separation processes, the improved elucidation of membrane fouling and establishment of e...

Governments and customers are forcing the paper manufacturers to become more sustainable. Accordingly, there still exists a gap in the quantitative modeling of these issues. In this paper, this gap is covered through simultaneously considering economical, environmental and social impacts in the paper closed-loop supply chain network design. The proposed multi-objective, multi-echelon, multi-pro...

To enter new markets and remain competitive in the existing markets, companies need to shift their focus from traditional means and ways to some innovative approaches. Though the paper industry in India has improved remarkably on its technological and environmental issues, yet it shows a low rate of innovation. The present paper attempts to review the industry in the perspecti...

In this paper we present the EU Optique project that aims at developing an end-to-end OBDA system for managing Big Data in industries. We discuss limitations of state of the art OBDA systems and present the general architecture of the Optique’s OBDA system that aims at overcoming these limitations.