Mineral Oil

Recycled paperboard is an important component of an environmentally responsible and sustainable future that can and should be used in a wide number of applications. Here you will be able to keep up with the most pressing issues related to the RPTA and recycled paperboard.
Currently food packaging and mineral oil is of an utmost priority. The safety of recycled paperboard food packaging is of the utmost priority to the paperboard industry.
Read more here about RPTA and Mineral Oil:
- RPTA Mineral Oil Issue Paper
- Statement on U.K. Food Standards Agency Testing, December 15, 2011
- Critical Analysis of Recent European Publications on Mineral Oil
- UK Food Standards Agency
- FDA's comments on mineral oil in Food Chemical News, March 18, 2011
- North American Response to Draft German Regulation of Mineral Oil in Recycled Paperboard, submitted on behalf of the industry by Graphic Packaging International, submitted June 25, 2013

LATEST NEWS
2023 Industry Profile Study
The 2023 Industry Profile Study includes 209 grade samples off 65 paper machines at 47 RPTA-member mills, with a targeted report release in September. Members can access reports from prior years at this member-only page.
2023 P-T Seminar
Presentations and recordings from the April Production-Technical Seminar are available to RPTA members only at this web page. Topics are Safer Operations, Fiber Recovery Optimization, Process Data Best Practices, and Wet End Operations
UPCOMING EVENTS
Summer 2023 Webinar
On Thursday, July 20th at 2:00 PM Eastern time. Treatment Technologies for Wastewater Reuse
Presented by Everett Gill and Kristen Jenkins of Brown and Caldwell Engineering, and moderated by Bill Doerr, Grief’s Corporate Environmental Manager. Intended for general managers and environmental professionals interested in how they might reduce the concentration of one or more chemicals in white water and/or effluent.
Use this link to register for this free member-only webinar.
2023 RPTA Fall Roundtable
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The annual member-only event will be held October 18 and 19 in Kalamazoo, Michigan
This year’s Roundtable will include a tour of the new Graphic Packaging International mill in Kalamazoo.