Roll Damage a Problem?

Attend the Shipping, Receiving and Warehousing Workshop, in Nashville, April 2-4, 2012, and learn new ways to avoid expensive roll damage and improve your bottom line.

Discounted Registration Ends March 23

Be a part of this dedicated group of mills, carriers, warehouses and printers as they collaborate to reduce in-transit damage to rolls of paper at this premier forum for industry leading paper shippers.

Keynote addresses will be presented by Michele Donahue, Executive Director of Paper Supply Chain with Conde Nast publishers, and Colin Barrett, Consultant, Author and Educator.

This is truly a practical, interactive and collaborative shipping and receiving workshop put on by industry professionals, for industry professionals - all parties of the supply chain - to address common issues and concerns relating to damage and damage prevention in the paper industry. It's an excellent networking opportunity - paper buyers, paper companies, carriers, securing / damage prevention specialists, block and bracing manufacturers, safety experts all under one roof. Learn more about TAPPI's Shipping, Receiving and Warehousing Workshop.

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Make the most out of your time at PaperCon by attending one or more of these workshops or seminars. Additional registration is required for each.

Essentials of Market Pulp Course

Wednesday, April 25

Instructor: Alan F. Button, PhD, World of Market Pulp

Gain a broad understanding of current pulp trends in the global marketplace, understand the unique nature of pulps through the study of a large cross-section of samples from all over the world, and initiate a simple, efficient evaluation process for smart pulp selection. Learn more.

Coating 101 Course

Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22

Taught by TAPPI coating experts from both the supplier and manufacturing backgrounds, this course is designed for commercial professionals needing a technical knowledge base, professionals new to the paper industry, young professionals that are recent graduates or new to coating, or professionals new to coating who've spent their career in other parts of the paper industry. Learn more.

Eliminating Cost while Enhancing Customer Value

Sunday, April 21

Instructor: Christopher W. Miller, PhD, NPDP, President, Innovation Focus, Inc.

A customer-centered and creative approach to value analysis (the Unilever approach), this one-day workshop will help you unleash the power of your organization. Learn to design a customer-centered cost reduction project; facilitate an effective cost reduction effort; and how to select tools and techniques that will help you and your team be more customer-centered. Learn more.

Stickies Workshop Sunday

April 21

Instructor: Dr. Mahendra Doshi, Editor, TAPPI Journal and Progress in Paper Recycling Designed for engineers, scientists and technicians who want to a better understanding of stickies and related issues, anyone working in recycling mills, using recycled pulp or supplying equipment, chemicals or recovered paper to recycled mills will greatly benefit from attending. Learn more.

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Join the World's Process Control Experts in New Orleans

The 15th Control Systems Conference will bring together the world's preeminent experts in pulp and paper process measurement, control and systems engineering. The exceptional program emphasizes both practical implementation and leading research.

Control Systems 2012 will be held April 22-25 in conjunction with TAPPI's PaperCon 2012, the largest pulp and paper technical program in the world and Control Systems 2012 attendees have access to the PaperCon Sessions and Trade Fair. Discounted registration is available through March 30.

Keynote Address: "What's Hidden in your Data? Sensor-Fusion and Signal Processing for Process and Performance Monitoring" - Sirish L. Shah, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

Topics include: 

• Web Imaging and Inspections ·
• Millwide Applications 
• Paper Machine Optimization and Grade Change 
• Paper Machine CD Applications 
• Sheet Quality Measurement 
• Pulp Mill Sensors 
• Pulp Mill Controls 
• Diagnostics and Analysis 
• Process Control New Technology Showcase

Learn more about the Control Systems 2012 program.

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Eliminating Cost while Enhancing Customer Value Workshop

Taking place at PaperCon, this one-day workshop on Sunday, April 21 will help you learn and identify effective tools and techniques needed to build a customer-centered, fact-based cost reduction strategy

Lead by Christopher W. Miller, PhD, NPDP, President Innovation Focus, Inc., this workshop features a customer-centered and creative approach to value analysis (the Unilever approach). Attend and learn how to unleash the power of your organization; design a customer-centered cost reduction project; facilitate an effective cost reduction effort; and how to select tools and techniques that will help you and your team be more customer-centered.

During this workshop, you'll learn how to design a customer-centered cost reduction project, facilitate an effective cost reduction effort, select tools and techniques that will help their team be more customer centered and build a customer centered, fact based cost reduction strategy

Process engineers and mid-to-upper level manufacturing managers within the paper manufacturing industry with an interest in cost management and reduction will find this course beneficial. Experience in cost reduction and related activities would be helpful.

Learn more about Eliminating Cost while Enhancing Customer Value Workshop and PaperCon.

The cost for this course is only 500 USD, which includes lunch and course materials. This special rate is being offered to TAPPI for this one-time workshop. Register now.

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Winning at New Products: Proven Roadmap to Success

Contrary to popular belief new product ideas often are not the biggest problem companies face. It's figuring out which ones are most likely to succeed – and then taking them through to development and launch. Join Stage-Gate International April 17-18 in Alexandria, VA, to learn how the top global competitors get it done!

The two-day seminar will help attendees improve their ability to conceive and develop winning new products and launch products faster than ever before. Why attend? Because research shows that a high-quality product development process increases new product success by almost 40%.

The seminar is led by the creator of the Stage-Gate process, Dr. Robert Cooper, an internationally recognized forest products innovation thought-leader who has helped companies develop new products for more than 25 years. The seminar will teach attendees how to:

• Tap customer knowledge and needs to identify the right products to develop
• Pinpoint the factors that will help, or hinder, product success
• Structure a cross-functional approach to speed development
• Engage company leadership to champion the right development projects

After two days packed with lectures, self assessments, problem solving sessions and case studies, you'll leave ready to take your team and company to the next level of new product success.

Learn more

Plan to attend "Winning at New Products: Proven Roadmap for Success" and the May 15-16 seminar "Successfully Implementing and Sustaining Your Idea-to-Launch Innovation Process" – AND SAVE! Contact Valerie Sather for promotion information – valerie.sather@stage-gate.com

 Remember to use the code TAP11 to receive the TAPPI member discount!

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Nominations for the major TAPPI 2013 awards are due by August 1, 2012.

The awards that may be presented in the upcoming year are:

Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award - The Association's highest technical honor may be presented annually to recognize an individual or individuals for preeminent scientific and engineering achievements of proven commercial benefit to the world's pulp, paper, board, and forest products industries and the other industries that TAPPI serves.

Herman L. Joachim Distinguished Service Award - The Association's highest award for service, may be presented annually to recognize leadership and service which have significantly and demonstrably contributed to the advancement of the Association.

Paul W. Magnabosco Outstanding Local Section Member Award – The highest honor for Local Sections may be presented annually to recognize an individual for outstanding leadership and exceptional service to one or more Local Sections, which have resulted in significant and demonstrable benefits to the Local Section members.

TAPPI Fellow - TAPPI Fellows are Individuals who have been members of TAPPI for not less than 10 years prior to the nomination, and who have contributed meritorious service to the Association and/or the paper and related industries. Retiring members of the TAPPI Board of Directors become Fellows automatically at the end of their term.

The TAPPI Awards and Honors page has links to these awards which will show the qualifications required and links to the nomination forms that must be completed. You may submit all nomination forms by email to standards@tappi.org, or you may fax them to the attention of the awards department at +1-770-446-6947, or send by mail to TAPPI, Awards Department, 15 Technology Parkway South, Norcross, GA 30092, USA.

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The Coating Process
Edited by: Jan C. Walter

View the Table of Contents

Product code: 0102B057

Member Price: $103.00

Non-Member Price: $155.00

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PaperCon 2012 will feature two Keynote Speakers as the industry gathers April 22-25 in New Orleans. Jeffrey Hayzlett , Bestselling Author, Global Business Celebrity and Sometime Cowboy will address the crowd on Monday, April 23 in the Opening Session and Lisa Bauer Lotto, M.S., Director, Environmental and Sustainability Programs, Green Bay Packaging Inc., will kick-off the Coating program during a special session on Sunday, April 22. Learn more about PaperCon and these speakers.

PaperCon is where CEOs, mill managers, superintendents, scientists, process engineers and suppliers gather to learn and network. Program tracks include Papermakers, Coating and Graphic Arts and PIMA Management. The PaperCon program also features: Inside and outside the box: Optimizing paperboard grades , the Sustainability Forum , an Executive Panel Discussion , a Young Professional Program , Coating 101 Course and other practical workshops and seminars and features the largest PaperCon exhibit ever. Bonus Sessions (open to all PaperCon registrants) Control Systems 2012: The first USA appearance for this highly-rated biannual conference. RPTA Production-Technical Seminar , the OpEx Reliability Seminar .

Take a moment to register and reserve your hotel room for this year's "must attend" event.

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Each year, TAPPI is generously supported by companies who join, or renew, as Sustaining Members. Through their dues, these companies support TAPPI's extensive educational efforts as well as facilitate the work of the TAPPI Foundation, a significant source of funding for the vital scholarship programs we offer to next-generation superstars. We are proud to list these visionary leaders as dedicated participants in sustaining, and growing the future of the paper, pulp and converting industries.

If you, or your company, are not currently members of this select group, we invite you to join today. To see if your company is a Sustaining Member, click here. To learn more about the many benefits inherent in becoming a Sustaining Member, please click here, or call Sustaining Member Concierge Piper James at 770-209-7225.

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GOLF!

The 2012 EMPIRE STATE TAPPI - New York/ Canadian Pima Spring Golf Outing will be held Thursday, May 17, 2012 at the Queensbury Country Club, Lake George, New York. This event has an 11:00AM Start and is a 4- man scramble. This event is limited to 72 players, so register early! There will be hot dogs and beverages at the turn, an open bar 4:00 to 5:30 pm, a steak dinner, golf awards and prizes after dinner. Dinner tickets may be purchased in advance or at door. Cash or check made out to Empire State TAPPI/PIMA, or use credit card @ registration. No refunds after May 11th.

Help support this year's event by sponsoring a hole. A $100 Sponsorship will give you a prominently displayed sign on a tee letting everyone know you are a TAPPI/PIMA "booster." All proceeds will go towards scholarships. All sponsorship information and the exact company name is needed by May 6th.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! "Transformational Technologies Conference" on June 21, 2012 at the Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls, New York. Presentations are currently being established and more details will follow.

For ALL of the latest Empire State TAPPI - New York/Canadian PIMA information, please visit the March 2012 Empire State TAPPI - New York/Canadian PIMA Newsletter.

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You are invited to attend the 62nd annual Maine PAPER DAYS Event at the University of Maine, Wells Conference Center, April 4-5, 2012 in Orono, Maine. This year we have a terrific line up of speakers and panels who will focus on The Paper Industry from a Global Perspective.

Speakers include Mark Cross, Senior Vice President of MeadWestvaco; Deece Hannigan, Vice President Sappi Fine Paper; and Terrance Gallagher, Senior Division Vice President, Nalco Company. On Wednesday afternoon we will have a talk by Brendan Lowney, President of Forest Economic Advisors, with a student panel moderated by R. James Alexy, Senior Partner Brimstone Consulting.

At breakfast on Thursday morning we will have a student panel moderated by Mike Luciano, HR Manager of Verso Paper with a topic of Expanding Students Global Perspective. The morning session on Thursday will address the "Challenges of the Global Economy" with a panel consisting of Al Blanchard of, Sappi Fine Paper, Robin McCann of OMNOVA Solutions, Keith Meyer of Andritz, Zeynep Turk of The Maine International Trade Center, and Mark Mosher of Irving Paper Ltd.

In addition we expect the Honorable Governor Paul LePage to address the group at 10:00 am on Thursday.

Please see the attached brochure, which includes a schedule of events and registration information. There is also a separate registration form, for your convenience.

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