Register Today for Specialty Papers 2012, November 7-8, 2012, in Chicago, Ill., USA. Join more than 100 senior-level industry insiders from all aspects of the supply chain, including papermakers, machinery suppliers and manufactuerers, raw material suppliers, consultants, and more for two days full of learning and networking. With more than 25 presentations from a divserse speaker panel, there is something for everyone in the Specialty Papers industry.

Michael Huth, CEO, Potsdam Specialty paper, will present "Paper Maker's Perspective: When Bigger Isn't Always Better." This retrospective will provide insight into how a small specialty paper business unit within a Fortune 200 paper company turned into a privately owned, independent specialty paper mill.

The conference will also feature "Market-based performance requirements for barrier-treated specialty paper and board" by Daikin America's Dr. Joe Ishley, Technical Services, and Dr. Frank Adamsky, Unidyne Marketing Manager. They will provide an overview for a variety of grades and basis weights within different barrier packaging.

View the conference agenda for other not-to-miss presentations.

 

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The Empire State TAPPI/PIMA Local Section will conduct its Continuous Improvement Conference November 1 at the Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls, N.Y., USA. Speakers include Peter Morel from Poyry, Ken Chartier from Finch Paper, Mark Decker from NYSERDA, Rich Rappa from CHA Consultants, and Laura Sherman from Nalco. The program is as follows:

• 8:30-9:00 a.m., Registration, Coffee, Continental Breakfast, Exhibitors
• 9:00-9:15 a.m., Welcome by Sean Reilly, TAPPI/PIMA Chair
• 9:15-10:00 a.m., "Dealing with Older Paper Machines," Peter Morel, president, Poyry
• 10:00-10:30 a.m., Break/Exhibitors
• 10:30-11:45 a.m. "NYSERDA Industrial and Process Efficiency (IPE) Incentive Program" and a couple of case studies from the paper industry, Mark Decker, project manager, Energy Efficiency Services, NYSERDA, and Rich Rappa, CHA
• 11:45-12:45 p.m., Lunch and Exhibitors
• 2:45- 2:00 p.m., "Six Sigma and Other Quality Initiatives at Finch Paper," Ken Chartier, Finch Paper
• 2:00-2:40 p.m., Break and Exhibitors
• 2:40-3:20 p.m., "RDF Chemistry Relative to Older Paper Machines," Laura Sherman, product manager for Graphics RDF Chemistry.

Learn more about this event

The 2013 William E. Clarke Memorial Scholarship and Grant and Heidi Cole Scholarship award application is available online. Application must be postmarked by December 31.

For Hotel reservations, contact the Queensbury Hotel at 518-792-1121.

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TAPPI Member Garnet Bremner describes TAPPI as a "mosaic" of individuals whose depth of experience and knowledge creates a wonderful atmosphere for finding outstanding mentors.

Bremner now works as an industry consultant for an air, water, & energy solutions and services provider. He began his pulp and paper industry career in a mill engineering role in Canada. Eventually, he successfully worked into deinking supervisory positions, also working to rebuild recycling mills, and then finally serving as a mill manager himself. Bremner has been an active TAPPI member, participating in officer roles on various committees and as a program chairman. Currently, he is serving as the PMD program chair for the PEERS 2012 conference being held this week at the Marriott Riverfront in Savannah, Ga., USA.

Bremner says that having a short list of contacts from mill operations, academics, R&D fields, equipment vendors, chemical vendors, automation vendors, and consultants of all types of expertise provided him with a support group to help with challenges.

Find out more by reading this month's Member Spotlight.

Spotlight participants are recommended by fellow members and staff. If you would like to nominate a member, just send name (or names) to MemberSpotlight@tappi.org. We will forward a Spotlight Questionnaire (click here) for you to fill out and return.

We look forward to seeing you "In the Spotlight!"

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Yankee drying experts from around the world are planning their fall meeting for November 5-6 in the heart of North American tissue making, Neenah, Wis., USA. The committee meets twice per year to share knowledge and best practices to increase safety and reduce delay that negatively impacts dryer operations and overall productivity. The fall meeting will include the development of standard practices and presentations on doctor setup/profiling and metalizing yankee dryers.

More information and registration details are available online.

The meeting will be held in conjunction with the Lake States TAPPI/North Central PIMA Energy Forum and is open to all TAPPI members and visitors (one time only). To attend as a visitor, please contact Scott Springmier. 

Immediately following the biannual Yankee Dryer Safety and Reliability Meeting, TAPPI will hold the popular Tissue Runnability Course November 7-9 at Miron Construction in Neenah. The course will provide an excellent knowledge base for process engineers, machine supervisors, reliability professionals, and suppliers responsible for maximizing uptime and saleable tissue production. Attendees will learn to:

• Improve tissue quality and consistency
• Understand contributors to waste and downtime
• Learn reliability and maintenance best practices
• Diagnose and troubleshoot problems quickly.

The course includes two and one-half days of focused instruction from a dozen globally recognized tissue making experts.

More information is available online. A registration discount is offered to TAPPI members. 

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TAPPI Nanotechnology Division Free Webinar

Date: November 8, 2012
Time: 11:00 a.m. EST

Join us for the Division's first free webinar on the Processing of Nanocellulose based Polymer Nanocomposites. The presentation, by Alain Dufresne, Head of Converting-Biomaterials-Packaging Group at the International School of Paper, Print Media, Biomaterials, Grenoble Institute of Technology, will cover the different strategies reported to process polymer nanocomposites reinforced when nanocellulose is presented.

Register now!

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One of the most popular and essential educational programs, the 2012 Tissue Runnability Course, will be held November 7-9, 2012 in Neenah, Wis., USA. The Tissue Runnability Course offers skills training for paper industry professionals involved in tissue and towel production. The expert instructors will provide course participants with a thorough understanding of the entire tissue making process and current best practices from wet end operations through creping and process control.

This three-day course was developed for engineers, machine and technical teams, or lead operators involved in the efficiency and quality of their plant's operations. The course material will be of great interest to new as well as experienced personnel.

All attendees will learn how to improve the quality of their product, diminish waste, and increase output.

You will learn from the industry experts! The TAPPI Tissue Runnability Course is taught by John Neun, John Tyburski, and technical experts from leading companies including Nalco, Metso, Albany International, BTG Americas, Jacobs Engineering, and Steve Waring of Process Applications.

Participants will learn how to run tissue and towel production with optimum settings for peak performance on various systems.

Learn more and register at the 2012 Tissue Runnability Course website.

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TAPPI's 2012 Nominating Committee presents a slate of candidates for two officer and three director positions on the TAPPI Board. The candidates are: chair, Thomas J. Garland; vice chair, Chris Luettgen, Kimberly-Clark; and directors, Daniel D. Cappell (AstenJohnson), Kirt J. Cuevas (International Paper), and Robert A. Feeser (MeadWestvaco Corp.).

Voting begins December 1.

Per the TAPPI Bylaws, members of the organization have until November 1 to review the slate.

More information about the slate and election process is available online.

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This November, if you want to learn how to improve mill efficiency, effectiveness, and reduce overall maintenance costs over time, these two courses are for you!

Attendees will learn:

• How to improve reliability and maintenance practices at your mill
• Implementation of the best practices for successful scheduling and process planning
• How to tie cause and effect together and apply logical thought processes to arrive at the core of your problem
• How to bring root cause analysis into your day-to-day reliability management process.

Maintenance Planning, Scheduling, and Reliability Training

Date: November 12-14

Covers:

• Results-oriented reliability and maintenance
• Successful planning and scheduling
• Best-practice business process
• Work identification/request initiation
• Setting work priorities, handling backlog
• Planning: What and How
• Scheduling: Who and When
• Work execution and improvement
• The impact of maintenance inventory management on performance
• Organizing for efficient management
• Aligning objectives for purchasing, storeroom, and maintenance managers
• Record materials data
• Integration of materials management with plant reliability
• Inventory management basics
• Determining what to stock
• Managing obsolete stock
• Knowing what parts should be inventoried.

Root Cause Problem Elimination Training

Date: November 15-16

Covers:

• RCPE in an industrial setting
• Well-known root cause investigations
• RCPE examples for IDCON's experience
• Basic beliefs for RCPE
• Drawing the "How-Can Diagram"
• Hands-on experience
• Finding and prioritizing problems
• Creative and critical thinking
• Root cause and logical thinking
• The RCPE process
• Triggers to perform RCPE
• Problem definition
• Possible causes
• Selecting most likely cause
• Verifying selected cause
• Identifying solutions
• Final exercises.

With your registration, you also get:

• IDCON's 215-page Practical Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Manual ($145 value)
• IDCON's Reliability Based Spare Parts and Materials Management Book ($49 value)
• Class notes and exercises
• Full examples on USB stick.

Begin solving problems at your facility by participating in one or both of these important, time and money-saving courses.

One flight takes you to both training sessions in beautiful Raleigh, N.C., USA.

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Papers are still being accepted for the Appita 2013 Technical and Industry Innovations programs. This year, as an added bonus, a special speakers rate will apply. Papers can be on any subject of relevance to forestry, pulp, paper, print, or packaging.

The Call for Papers deadline is November 9.

You are invited to submit an extended abstract on topics relevant to the industry, including but not limited to:

• Forestry and wood products
• Sustainability
• Bioresources, bioenergy, and cogeneration
• Resource assessment and management
• Paper and board manufacturing
• Efficiency and process improvement
• Safety
• Lean manufacturing
• Pulping and bleaching.

For additional details and registration information contact Appita 2013 Conference organizers.

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This text, edited by Carlton W. Dence and Douglas W. Reeve, covers fundamentals and processes from the chemical composition of pulp to the technology, production, and the environmental impact of bleaching. Designed as both a textbook and a reference book, Pulp Bleaching: Principles and Practice explains what bleaching is, why pulp is bleached, and how bleaching is done.

The book also features discussions on several "hot topics" in pulp bleaching, including elemental chlorine free bleaching, totally chlorine free bleaching, enzyme assisted bleaching, and bleaching of recycled fiber. In addition, the book is key-word indexed and each chapter contains extensive references.

Pulp Bleaching: Principles and Practice

Product code: 0102B061

Member Price: $124.00

Non-Member Price: $186.00

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Why Whitewater Filtration Systems Fail

Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

This free webinar from TAPPI addresses why whitewater filtration systems are often problematic and in some instances fail completely. The presentation will explain why filtration systems fail under certain conditions and offers the best solutions to improve the overall reliability of the process.

Attendees will learn:

• Significance of process variation on equipment performance
• The negative cost impact associated with poor system performance
• New sensor technology that is making the system "visible"
• Cutting-edge strategies to manage the process variation
• How to develop a "roadmap' for system optimization.

Learn more and register

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The Secret, Second Edition
What Great Leaders Know and Do

By: Ken Blanchard & Mark Miller

• Uses the popular "business fable" format that Ken pioneered
• Explains the five essential practices exhibited by the best leaders and provides practical ideas on how to make these a reality in your life.
  

At one time or another, everyone in a position of authority-whether in a multinational corporation or a local volunteer group-wonders what the key to great leadership is. And who better to answer that question than the team of Ken Blanchard, whose books on leadership have sold over 20 million copies, and Mark Miller, who worked his way up from line worker to vice president of one of the largest fast-food chains in the country. In The Secret, Blanchard and Miller use the uniquely accessible "business fable" format that Blanchard pioneered to get at the heart of what makes a leader truly able to inspire and motivate people. Debbie Brewster, recently promoted and struggling, finds herself about to lose her job due to poor performance. In an attempt to save her career, she enrolls in a new mentoring program offered by her company. Much to her surprise, Debbie finds her mentor is none other than Jeff Brown, the president of the company. Debbie decides that she is going to ask her new mentor the one question she feels she desperately needs answered: "What is the secret of great leaders?" Jeff's immediate answer-that great leaders serve their followers-completely flummoxes Debbie. Over the next 18 months, Jeff helps Debbie discover and explore five fundamental ways that leaders lead through service.

The Secret puts what Blanchard and Miller have learned about leadership in a form that anyone can easily understand, embrace, and pursue. It is a book that will benefit not only those who read it, but also the organizations they work in an the people who look to them for guidance.

The second edition includes revised and updated content including:

• A new foreword by John Maxwell
• A new resource section in the back matter summarizing key learning points
• A greater focus on the book's primary focus: servant leadership
• A more humanized protagonist
  
• Numerous other minor renovations throughout. 

Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager, the bestselling business book of all time!

Item #: 12SECRET

Member Price: $23.00

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The Tissue360 Forum, organized by TAPPI tissue experts in conjunction with Tissue360 magazine, will be held April 29 - May 1, 2013 at PaperCon 2013 in Atlanta, Ga., USA. The forum will cover a wide range of tissue manufacturing and converting technologies and market trends. PaperCon 2013 will be the pulp and paper industry's largest technical conference and trade show.

"The inclusion of the Tissue360 Forum at PaperCon 2013 will add comprehensive coverage of this dynamic segment to the industry's best technical program," notes TAPPI President and CEO Larry Montague.  "The forum will provide business insights and peer-reviewed technical papers covering developments in one of the industry's most rapidly growing and technically innovative grade sectors."

Tissue360 Forum topics will include an overview of hygienic product market drivers, raw material usage and supply, wet and dry end additives, latest hybrid tissue making technology and runnability/operational tips. All material will be selected and peer reviewed by TAPPI members with tissue expertise. The program is open to all full PaperCon registrants. An invitation to Present at the Tissue360 Forum has been issued. Industry professionals interested in presenting a paper, panel, roundtable, or poster on any of these topics should submit an abstract no later than November 20, 2012.

PaperCon brings together CEOs, mill managers, superintendents, scientists, process engineers, and suppliers for the largest pulp and paper technical program in the world. No other event provides such a comprehensive program, networking opportunities and trade fair among such a distinguished group of industry leaders.

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The Pulp and Paper Manufacturers Association's (PPMA) new website (ppmausa.com) offers access to labor contracts, salary data, surveys, and other human resource related material.

"The look and feel of the PPMA website has remained unchanged for several years," said Dick Kendall, executive director for PPMA. "We have now revamped the site to be more user-friendly and to provide industry information to our members."

PPMA members have access to a treasure trove of valuable information such as a labor database of information regarding union contracts, a 'library' of current labor agreements (union contracts), and custom survey results on a variety of topics tabulated by PPMA at the request of members.

PPMA supplies human resource services to the pulp, paper, converting, and allied industries. Its membership includes union and non-union facilities involved in producing and converting products allied with the paper industry.

Media Contact: Dick Kendall, executive director, dkendall@ppmausa.com, 920-731-4994.

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The International Mechanical Pulping Conference, sponsored by PI, TAPPI, PAPTAC, SPCI and PTF, will be held on June 3-5, 2014, in Helsinki, Finland.  IMPC 2014 is a major part of PulPaper, one of the world's most premier pulp and paper exhibitions, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of PI, the Paper Engineers' Association.

The Conference Program Committee invites you to submit papers on the following topics:

1. Energy saving in Mechanical Pulping process
2. New applications and innovations
3. Raw materials in Mechanical Pulping
4. Advanced Mechanical Pulping technologies e.g.

• Process control and simulation
• Bleaching
• Water management and effluent treatment

        5.  Mill operations update e.g.

• Production cost saving technologies (energy and chemicals)
• Improving mechanical pulping business potential

        6. Mechanical pulps in paper and board.

Authors interested in presenting a paper or a poster on these topics should submit an extended abstract (˜500 words) to impc2014@vtt.fi. Abstracts are due by February 28, 2013. Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 31, 2013 and final manuscripts are due March 31, 2014.

If you have any questions, please contact Sari Liukkonen, Chair of the Program Committee at +358 40 586 0384, or by e-mail at impc2014@vtt.fi.

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The 20 volumes of Papermaking Science and Technology bookseries cover the entire paper manufacturing process from wood raw material to end product, providing a basis for university-level education, for updating training courses, and as handbooks for the industry. The bookseries has been updated and second editions are now available. TAPPI members can place an order by contacting The Finnish Paper Engineers' Association. Please contact Mary Anne Cauthen, Member Group Coordinator, at +1.770.209.7352 or by e-mail at MCauthen@TAPPI.org

These books can be purchased individually or as a set.

This 20 volume set includes:

• Volume 1 - Economics of the Pulp and Paper Industry
• Volume 2 - Forest Resources and Sustainable Management
• Volume 3 - Forest Products Chemistry
• Volume 4 - Papermaking Chemistry
• Volume 5 - Mechanical Pulping
• Volume 6, part 1 - Chemical Pulping Part 1, Fiber Chemistry and Technology
• Volume 6, part 2 - Chemical Pulping Part 2, Recovery of Chemicals and Energy
• Volume 7 - Recycled Fiber and Deinking
• Volume 8 - Papermaking Part 1, Stock Preparation and Wet End
• Volume 9 - Papermaking Part 2, Drying
• Volume 10 - Papermaking Part 3, Finishing
• Volume 11 - Pigment Coating and Surface Sizing of Paper
• Volume 12 - Paper and Paperboard Converting
• Volume 13 - Print Media - Principles, Processes, and Quality
• Volume 14 - Process and Maintenance Management
• Volume 15 - Materials, Corrosion Prevention and Maintenance
• Volume 16 - Paper Physics
• Volume 17 - Pulp and Paper Testing
• Volume 18 - Paper and Board Grades
• Volume 19 - Environmental Management and Control 
• Volume 20 - Biorefining of Forest Resources

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The 2013 TAPPI International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials will be held July 24-27, 2013, on the KTH Royal Institute of Technology campus in Stockholm, Sweden. Industry experts, scientists, health and safety specialists, legal and government policy makers, as well as the field's leading researchers will discuss the latest in nanotechnology research and development.

The 2013 Technical Program Committee has issued a Call for Papers inviting contributions from participants working in research, development, and deployment of renewable nanomaterials.

Abstracts are due by December 3, 2012.

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Make your plans now to join a host of professionals from industry, universities and research institutes at the 14th TAPPI European PLACE Conference, which will be held May 6-8, 2013, at the Swissotel in Dresden, Germany.

The Call for Papers is now officially open. Submit your abstract and take an active role in this not-to-miss event!

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