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Our 6th annual Runnability Run/Walk on May 5 raised more than $8400 for student scholarships! These proceeds will be split evenly between the Paper & Board and Process Control Division scholarship funds. This wouldn't be possible without your support.
We would like to thank all of our sponsors and give special recognition to our 6-year sponsors. Buckman, Kadant Johnson, Nalco, PaperTech, and Voith have been with us since the beginning! We're also pleased to add Mallard Creek Polymers and Panther Systems to our sponsor family this year. Other sponsors include ABB, Ashland Hercules Water Technologies, BASF, Event Capture Systems, Lorentzen & Wettre, Omya, OpTest, Paperchine, Papertech, Technidyine, Thiele Kaolin, TMI and Wells Enterprises.
Please check at www.tappi.org/funrun for this year's results, photos, and results from previous years. Look for us to return at PaperCon '11 in Covington, KY next May 1 – 4.
Thanks for your support!
Sincerely,
The Runnability Planning Committee:
Lawrence Anker, Ashland Hercules Water Technologies
Shih-Chin Chen, ABB
Alfred Li, US Gypsum
Steve Ottone, Mallard Creek Polymers
Nancy Ross Sutherland, USFS Forest Products Lab
Frank Sutman, Ashland Hercules Water Technologies
Scott Yeakey, Omya
TAPPI is pleased to announce the Call For Papers for the 2010 NETInc. Technical Program. NETInc. stands for the Innovative Nonwovens Conference organized by the Nonwovens Engineers and Technologists (NET) Division of TAPPI in collaboration with the Nonwovens Institute at North Carolina State University.
The deadline for submissions has been extended until June 25, 2010.
The following key areas of application will be of interest:Health & Well Being, Safety & Security, Environment & Sustainability, Energy & Infrastructure, Emerging Technologies/Market Trends, Nanotechnology and Training Future Leaders.
Authors interested in presenting a paper on these or related topics should submit an abstract with full contact information to NET@tappi.org. The deadline for submissions has been extended to June 25, 2010; authors will be notified in early July regarding acceptance. Extended Abstracts will be due on August 30, 2010.
For more information please visit www.netincevent.orgor contact:Craig McKinney, TAPPI Program Manager at cmckinney@tappi.org or 770-209-7294.
On Tuesday, June 1, Jeffrey (Jeff) A. Smith appeared as the second TAPPI member to be featured on the new website addition, Member Spotlight. In May, Spotlight debuted with an article on longtime member Chuck Klass.
Jeff, an active member since 1988, is an Account Manager with BTG Americas Inc. A recent winner of the prestigious Paul W. Magnabosco Outstanding Local Section Member award, Jeff has been involved in numerous committees and projects, including serving as Membership Chair for the Gulf Coast section for nearly 20 years.
Would you like to be featured in the Spotlight? It's easy to do. Simply fill out the Spotlight Questionnaire and email it to MemberSpotlight@tappi.org. If you would like to nominate a member, simply send their name (or names) to the same email address.
For the first time, this annual meeting will be held outside of North America. Join industry experts, scientists, health and safety specialists, legal and government policy makers, and leading researchers from multiple disciplines to discover how nanotechnology can shape the next generation of value-added forest products.
Keynote presentations will be made by Andriy Kovalenko, Senior Research Officer, Group Leader – Theory and Modeling, NRC-NINT and Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta; and Hadi Mahabadi, Vice President and Center Manager, Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC).
Learn more about the conference and register today!
Harnessing the promise of technology, one of TAPPI's program partners, VoIPcare Technology,
has started a six-month trial period with members of the pulp and paper industry. The purpose is to evaluate the benefits and ROI associated with the use of VoIPcare's qMetrix™ software product for Transportation applications.
The trial program began out of efforts of the TAPPI's Shipping, Receiving and Warehousing (SRW) Committee following a yearlong study. Because of their design philosophy and background in data collection and information delivery, VoIPcare was chosen by the SRW team to design and implement the system.
Information that used to take days and even weeks to gather is now ready immediately at each step in the supply chain. As a result, participants throughout the supply chain transaction have access to the inspection data and photographs support the inspections. The VoIPcare system provides detailed information necessary to help the industry reduce the amount of in-transit damage currently experienced.
For only ONE price, your entire plant can attend the TAPPI sessions and see more than 100 exhibitors at the 2010 Corrugated WeekOctober 4-8 in Baltimore, Maryland. We're calling it the Box Plant Offer. And, it's a real deal, because when you consider the value, there is simply no better way to exponentially increase the knowledge of your plant employees with so little expenditure. $1295. That's it.
"What are they thinking!?!?!"
TAPPI exists to support the success of your business. It's what we do. Giving more people access to the largest, single-place gathering of corrugated professionals in the industry can only lead to one positive outcome – a stronger industry overall.
Our 6th annual Runnability Run/Walk on May 5 raised more than $8400 for student scholarships! 
