Advance your career with two-day courses offered at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

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Point (UWSP) are working in partnership to deliver these upcoming, hands-on short courses that you'll want to consider in expanding your industry knowledge.

Advanced Paper Making: Formation
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
April 24-25, 2025
Register before March 27th to save more than $100.

This two-day class features morning classroom sessions followed by afternoon workshops of guided hands-on exercises using the UW-Stevens Point Fourdrinier pilot paper machine and testing the resulting paper. This combination has proven to be a highly effective and enjoyable way to gain fundamental knowledge of the industrial papermaking process. Class size is limited to 16 for this course to provide ample opportunities for questions and discussion during classroom sessions and hands-on experiences on the paper machine.
Participants will learn how to:

• Safely participate in the operation of a pilot-scale paper machine.
• Identify the relationships among sheet structure, formation, and paper properties.
• Explain why paper making fibers floc. Apply manufacturing techniques that minimize fiber flocking.
• Perform both visual and instrumental measurement of formation.
• Describe the difficulties associated with the correlation of visual formation assessment and instrument measurement.

Learn about the instructor and his accomplished background.

Additional training events are planned in the coming months. Check out this upcoming schedule at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point:

Hands On Paper Making Course
March 20-21

Advanced Paper Making: Additives
April 10-11
Register by March 13th to save.

Coating & Lamination in Packaging Applications
June 5-6
Register before May 8th to save.

Learn more about the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources Department of Paper Science and Chemical Engineering and its partnership with TAPPI to offer more options in training for papermakers at all levels of expertise in the industry.