Registration rates for the 2012 TAPPI International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials are due to increase on May 7.

Register this week to take advantage of the discounted rates.

The conference, June 4-7, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Montreal in beautiful Montreal, Que., Canada, will feature 28 sessions under the theme of Brining New Dimension to Sustainable Business Solutions.

Registration for this not-to-miss event includes a tour of CelluForce, the world's first NanoCrystalline Cellulose (NCC) plant located in Windsor, Que., on Monday, June 4, 2012. In addition, if you are one of the first 100 people to register, you will enjoy dinner at Vieux-Port Steak House followed by Cirque Du Soleil's Amaluna on Wednesday, June 6.

View the Conference Brochure or learn more about the conference including registration information online.

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If you haven't yet registered for the TAPPI Introduction to Wet End Chemistry Course, you can still take advantage of the early registration savings through May 7. But, don't wait too long. Seating is limited.

This course is the only one of its kind in the world -- and is taught by three highly respected experts in paper chemistry who will help you understand how wet end additives can differentiate your products. Bring your team up to speed on the latest technology and terminology in this important process in papermaking.

2012 TAPPI Introduction to Wet-End Chemistry- June 4-6, 2012
Norcross, Ga. USA

This unique training program offers an in-depth focus on chemical additives and what you can and can't do to help you save costs, increase machine efficiency and product better paper products. Participants will learn how to:

• Implement new wet end technology to reach higher efficiency and consistent, quality products
• Use additives to improve or create new products
• Reduce downtime and off-spec production
• Make better judgments on selection and use of chemicals
• Troubleshoot problems and optimize performance
• Respond quickly to changing fiber qualities, regulations, and competitive pressures.

View the entire curriculum planned in the Course Schedule.

TAPPI will award 1.7 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for completion of the curriculum.

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Reintroduced in 2010, TAPPI is pleased to bring back this essential--and popular--program for paper professionals. Plan to attend this course being held in Appleton, Wis., May 15 - 17.

This course, designed for new as well as experienced personnel, helps attendees learn how to improve the quality of their product, diminish waste, and increase output. Machine supervisors, technical resources, lead operators and technical personnel, project engineers, and suppliers can all benefit from this course, which is being led by industry-recognized instructors.

To learn more about this course and register, go to the event website.

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Unfortunately the learning curve is not sympathetic when it comes to implementing a new idea-to-launch process and, with a failed implementation, key support necessary to ensure operational success is lost forever!.

Ensure that you and your team will be successful launching a new, or sustaining an existing idea-to-launch process, by attending this companion program to our world-renowned "Winning at New Products" seminar."

Join us and leave ready to implement and sustain, with full confidence, your new product innovation process.

May 15-16 in Philadelphia, Pa., USA, Stage-Gate International is hosting Implementing and Sustaining Your Idea-to-Launch Innovation Process, an action packed, hands-on, two day seminar that will help you and your team:

•  Accelerate implementation and adoption of your process
•  Avoid the most common and easy-to- make, but hard-to-correct, implementation mistakes.

Why attend? Because research shows that a high-quality product development process increases new product success by almost 40%.

The Stage-Gate process provides an operational roadmap that takes a new product from concept to launch, using a decision-based approach to maximize effectiveness and efficiency. When properly designed and implemented, it has been shown to be a key factor for ensuring innovation success.

Created to ensure successful implementation of the Stage-Gate® process, Implementing and Sustaining Your Idea-to-Launch Process introduces you and your team to a structured implementation process that has been used by hundreds of the world's leading companies.

This seminar will teach you and your team how to:

• Accelerate adoption of your process
• Select the right approach for your organization
• Assess your organization's innovation change readiness
• Sustain a new and existing innovation process.

Learn More: Download Brochure

Lever Your TAPPI Membership to Receive 10% OFF the Registration Fee – Use Code TAP11

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The Extrusion Coating Manual, Fourth Edition is now available through TAPPI Press.

Edited by: Thomas Bezigian

This comprehensive volume details all aspects of extrusion coating. The book will be a valuable training tool for new employees and a useful reference for everyone involved in extrusion coating. It includes information on classic materials and troubleshooting techniques as well as the latest materials and machine designs available anywhere in the world today.

Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition contains the work of more than 30 well-known industry experts.

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Product code: 0102B065

Member Price: $93.00

Non-Member Price: $140.00

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2012 Pulp and Paper Manufacturers Association Annual Meeting in May The Pulp and Paper Manufacturers Association (PPMA) Annual Meeting and Conference will be held May 9-11, 2012 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. PPMA provides human resource information to the pulp, paper, converting and allied industries. The meeting includes a program of expert speakers covering topics such as labor law, training and health care, extensive networking opportunities and updates on key industry research including an annual salary survey.

"The 2012 Annual Meeting will provide attendees with helpful information that can be used to improve business performance, including results from our annual salary surveys and other human resource information," notes PPMA Executive Director, Dick Kendall. "In addition, we have a strong speaker line-up including David Scheible, CEO of Graphic Packaging, who will share his views and insights on how to sustain results in a tough economic and business climate."

The theme of this year's conference is "On the Anvil." Key topics that will be covered include: how to discuss and implement a labor/management committee to help efficiency; update on current health care discussions across the U.S.; current labor law developments; OSHA rules and their impact on union and non-union operations. In addition, a review of how to use the National Network for Pulp and Paper Technology Training (NPT2) training resource will be provided.

A wide range of key trends in the industry will be addressed by an outstanding program of speakers including: David Scheible, CEO, Graphic Packaging International; Dan Murphy, Labor Law Expert; Dennis Smith, Secretary of the Department of Health Services; Daniel Van Wychen, Commissioner, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS); T.J. Murphy, Executive Director, NPT2, Mike Lies, Partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Professor Emeritus C.Y. Allen and Eric Hobbs, partner at Michael Best & Friedrich Law Firm.

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Dr. John Mitchell McEwen, 94, was a long-time member of TAPPI and one of the association's longest serving members. He became active in TAPPI beginning in 1941, and served as its president in 1965 and 1966. He was honored as a TAPPI Fellow in 1968. Dr. McEwen played a role in the pulp and paper industry's major transformation that began prior to World War II and continues today with the technologically advanced processes, equipment, and systems used in modern mills and plants around the world.

Following graduation from Ohio State University with a degree in chemical engineering in 1939, Dr. McEwen served as an army reserve officer. He was called to duty before Pearl Harbor and served almost five years as lieutenant, captain, and major in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. After the war, he completed his Ph.D. in pulp and paper science at the Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton, Wis.

In 1947, Dr. McEwen joined Weyerhaeuser Co. and did technical work in the company's Pulp Division in Longview, Wash., and Everett, Wash. He later managed pulp and paper mills and served as area manager in both Everett and Springfield, Ore. He subsequently served as Weyerhaeuser International VP for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, while living in Brussels, Belgium. After returning to the U.S., he was named regional VP for Southwest Washington. After 30 years with Weyerhaeuser, he retired in 1977.

Dr. McEwen served on the boards of a number of non-profit organizations in Everett, Springfield, and Longview. After retirement, he helped start Community Home Health and Hospice in Longview and served as its president until he moved to Redmond, Wash., in 1992. He married his wife Isabel in 1942.

He is survived by daughters Irene McEwen and Marie McEwen of Redmond, and Judy Richardson of Scottsdale, Ariz. He is also survived by a granddaughter Marcy J. Harrington and her husband Ed of Seattle, Wash., and their daughters Madeline and Heidi.

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Members who would like to nominate a candidate for TAPPI's 2013 Board of Directors election should submit a nomination datasheet available online. The candidates must be TAPPI members.

Nominations should be submitted no later than May 15, 2012, by email to mcornell@tappi.org or by mail to Mary Beth Cornell, TAPPI, 15 Technology Parkway South, Norcross, GA 30092 USA +1 770 209-7210.

Thank you,

Jeffrey Siegel, TAPPI Nominating Committee Chair

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If there is one time in your professional career when TAPPI mem­bership should be of maximum value to you, it is when you're just getting started in the industry. You need to know how other companies are tack­ling the problems which have been assigned to you. Your performance de­pends so much on your staying up to date on the latest advances reported in the technical literature. You need to sharpen your skills in dealing with people since you're new in the role of a supervisor. You need TAPPI courses and the specialized seminars a professional society like TAPPI can offer to keep you current. You need a broader perspective.

Then why, excluding student mem­bers, is the median age of new TAPPI members in the mid-30s? Why do many college graduates entering the indus­try wait roughly 10 years before they join the Association? Several reasons are given. They can't afford the dues. Their employers should pay those dues. They can always read someone else's copy of TAPPI Journal or Paper360°. They aren't allowed to travel to TAPPI meetings. They're too busy. The bene­fits of TAPPI membership and of con­tinuing education aren't self-evident.

After several years in industry, they'll seek such opportunities to promote their own professional and leadership skills. They'll recognize the opportuni­ties TAPPI provides to work coopera­tively on industry-wide technical prob­lems. But the opportunities of those early years will have been lost for­ever. This is the reason why TAPPI has a less expensive membership option for industry professionals less than 29 years of age. This is also why TAPPI has started a young professionals committee to focus in on specific needs of recent graduates. So pass this along to the younger members of your team and get them involved in TAPPI now!

More information about the TAPPI Young Professionals Committee is available online.

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Engineers involved in papermaking wet end chemistry will want to mark June 4 - 6 on their calendars. The 2012 TAPPI Introduction to Wet-End Chemistry course takes place during these three days at TAPPI headquarters in Norcross, Ga., USA.

This course will help you get up to speed on the latest technology and terminology you need for optimum papermaking performance. Instructors for this course know that cost savings is ultimately your mark for a strong finish, so they focus the three-day interactive training on innovative wet end chemistry principals and the use of additives to change or create new paper products.

Through case studies, break-out sessions, and networking with others in the course, you'll learn how to:

• Implement new technology into your mill's wet-end process to reach higher efficiency and yield consistent, quality products
• Use chemicals and other additives to change or create new products and maximize machine capacity
• Put the brakes on machine downtime and off-specification products
• Make better judgments on selection and use of papermaking chemicals
• Better troubleshoot problems on paper machines
• Get up to speed on the challenges papermakers face due to changing fiber qualities, regulations, and competitive pressures.

View the Workshop Schedule to see specific topics covered.

This introductory- to intermediate-level course is designed for those in pulp and paper manufacturing facilities with job responsibilities, such as chemical and process engineers, mill superintendents, research and development engineers, technology and chief chemists, R&D VPs, process and quality control technicians, and suppliers involved with the wet end processes.

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Get an overview of the entire pulping and papermaking process and run a pilot plant paper machine! It's all a first-hand experience at the TAPPI Hands-on Workshop for Pulp and Paper Basics. This course is coming up soon, June 4 - 8, 2012, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., USA.

Register to reserve your seat.

The number of students in the course will be limited in size to ensure the best interaction among attendees and instructors during the workshop.

If you're wondering whether this course is right for you, it probably is! It's an essential course that teaches the basic concepts in pulp and paper manufacturing and is designed for anyone wanting to improve their role in operations.

Learn more. 

Participants will receive a course notebook and CD with approximately 400 pg of reference materials.

Earn CEUs: You'll earn 3.7 continuing education credits at the completion of this June 4 - 8 course. It's a lovely time to be in North Carolina.

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Have you ordered your copy of the The Bleaching of Pulp (5th Edition) yet? There's still time to receive up to 50% off the list price if you order before April 30.

Order Online Now

Still undecided? Take a moment to preview the Table of Contents, Introduction, and chapter on Oxygen Delignification. We're confident you – and your company – will find this newest edition to be well worth the investment.

And we're not alone in that assessment. Here is what colleague and contributing editor Brian N. Brogdon, Ph.D., of FutureBridge Consulting and Training LLC, had to say:

"Readers of The Bleaching of Pulp (5th Edition) will be able to easily examine the holistic philosophical approaches to bleach sequence design in a single reference. The environmental aspects of bleaching section has been completely revamped to cover U.S. and Canadian regulations of bleach plant air and water emissions enacted in the late 1990s, as well as the literature assessing and interpreting the impact of emissions from modern bleach sequences on aquatic life. It also contains an encyclopedic chapter on the safe storage, handling, and standardized hazard labeling of most common chemicals employed in bleaching, and I highly recommend it to process engineers, R&D personnel, equipment and chemical supplier vendors, and consultants whom are actively involved in bleach plants."

What are you waiting for? Order your copy today at the incredible pre-order price of $110, a savings of more than 50% off the May release list price of $232 (TAPPI members: $155). Or, contact TAPPI's Member Connection at memberconnection@tappi.org  +1 800 332-8686 (U.S.), 1 800 446-9431(Canada), or +1 770 446-1400 (Worldwide).

But hurry, pre-order pricing ends April 30!

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Tension Control

Kee-Huyn Shinn, Ph.D.

This volume provides a thorough study of the longitudinal dynamics and tension control of web handling systems. Critical web handling problems that can be related to improper tension control include wrinkle, slack, breakage, lateral movement, and poor roll quality. This valuable text is the only reference currently available devoted entirely to tension control.

Tension Control

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 Product code: 0101R275

Member Price: $50.00

Non-Member Price: $75.00

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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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Martin A. Hubbe and Kasy King

This handbook provides cost-saving strategies associated with the use of chemical additives during the manufacture of paper. Topics include:

• Loss of materials (i.e. "yield" of the papermaking process)
• Production rate issues
• Downtime
• Inefficient use of functional additives
• Process-enhancing additives and their control
• Strategies to reduce the amount of fibers required to make a paper product
• Strategies to reduce the amount of energy to make paper.

A glossary of terms and a brief introduction to selected principles of capital budgeting are provided as appendices.

This book is ideal for paper machine process engineers/scientists, paper machine superintendents, paper mill management, chemical supplier technical staff, product development engineers, paper mill consultants, and technical staff from allied industries, e.g. process control equipment, papermaking machinery, and environmental services.

Cost Saving Strategies in Papermaking Chemistry

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Product code: 0101R325

Member Price: $150.00

Non-Member Price: $215.00

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