AGTX - TAPPI Kicks Off New Web Initiative for the Pulp and Paper Industry TAPPI
partners with AGT to develop the premier pulp and paper portal
ATLANTA, Dec 1, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- TAPPI announced today that it has
awarded a development contract to Applied Graphics Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:
AGTX), the country's largest provider of outsourced digital media asset
management services.
With this award, TAPPI, the world's leading provider of technical information
for the pulp and paper industry, initiates its effort to provide cutting-edge
online services to the pulp and paper community. AGT will provide technical and
design services through their subsidiary companies Black Dot Group and Seven
Interactive.
TAPPI's new web initiative will combine portal concepts, industry and
association partnerships, and advanced Web applications to further enhance its
position as the most complete information resource for the pulp and paper
industry. The new Web site is projected to launch in early 2001.
Applied Graphics Technologies, headquartered in New York, is the largest
provider of outsourced digital image management and distribution in the United
States.
Black Dot Group, whose head office is in Crystal Lake, Illinois has 29
facilities and 1450 employees across the US.
Seven Interactive is a world leading imaging business with operations in the
United States, Europe and Australia with affiliate companies in the Far East.
TAPPI, founded in 1915 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is the world's
largest association serving the pulp, paper and related industries.
CONTACT: TAPPI, Atlanta
Mary Gunstone, 770/209-7274
mgunstone@tappi.org |
