PapiNet.org
Title
papiNet
Description
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the US trade association for manufacturers of forest, paper and wood products, currently representing over 80% of the paper, wood, and forest products produced in the United States. AF&PA is the voice for the US industry, a leading force in policy advocacy, and the industry clearinghouse of information, statistics, and market analysis. More information about AF&PA can be found at http://www.afandpa.org.
IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit membership organization. Its mission is to advance user-driven, cross-industry solutions for all publishing and content-related processes by developing standards, fostering business alliances, and identifying best practices. IDEAlliance has been a leader in information technologies since 1966 (founded as Graphic Communications Association) having fostered the development and adoption of standards such as ADIS, GRACoL, ICE, JIFFI, Mail.dat, papiNet, PRISM, PROSE XML, SPACE XML, SGML, and XML. Learn more about IDEAlliance at http://www.idealliance.org.
papiNet Europe (previously known as the European Paper Consortium) was set up in 2000 in order to manage the European interests in papiNet. PapiNet Europe has been funding the European, and partly the North American, costs to develop the new standards. It has also invested in buildiing software for sending and receiving papiNet messages using the Internet in order to simplify the implementation of the messages. Currently, papiNet Europe has 25 members, who are all large suppliers of paper and forest products in one or several of the paper industry segments.
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