RISI Announces Registration Now Open For Its Seventh Annual Latin American Pulp & Paper Conference

SAO PAULO, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products industry, today announced that registration is now open for its Seventh Annual Latin American Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference. 

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The Seventh Annual RISI Latin American Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference will take place on August 27-29, 2012 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The conference will feature an impressive lineup of guest speakers representing leading companies from every corner of the pulp and paper supply chain talking about the issues and opportunities they are facing. In addition, RISI economists will present their two-year outlooks for the pulp and paper industry. 

Attendees will include executives from paper companies, merchants, pulp producers, suppliers, financial analysts, consumer products companies, and other end-users.  The seventh Annual RISI Latin American Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference is the place for these industry executives to come together to discuss questions and concerns for the future of the pulp and paper industry. 

RISI is pleased to announce that registered attendees of RISI's Latin American Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference will find it easier than ever to connect with fellow conference attendees, before, during and after the event using RISI's Conference Connections group on LinkedIn. 

Conference programs and registration details for the Latin American Conference are currently available at www.risi.com/laconf.

Sponsors of the Latin American Pulp & Paper Outlook Conference include HP, ColorLok Technology and CENIBRA. For information on sponsoring this event, please email advertising@risi.com or visit www.risiinfo.com/events/la_conf/sponsoropps.html for more details.

Media sponsors include: Pulp & Paper International (PPI) magazine, PPI Latin America and PPI America Latina.

About RISI (www.risi.com)

Owned by UBM plc, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, RISI is the leading information provider for the global forest products industry. The company works with clients in the pulp and paper, wood products, timber, biomass, tissue, nonwovens, printing and publishing industries to help them make better decisions.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, RISI operates additional offices throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia.

About UBM plc (www.ubm.com)

UBM plc is a leading global company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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