Only two weeks are left to book your spot and join more than 100 of your colleagues at the only North American event exclusively dedicated to Specialty Papers. TAPPI and Smithers Pira jointly created Speciality Papers 2012, bringing you the most up-to-date information you need to know about trends, markets, financial outlook, and direction of the specialty paper industry. You'll learn about recent developments, applications, new technologies, and case studies for packaging, coating, process and equipment development, and more.

Specialty Paper's return to North America will bring the entire supply chain together, completeing the circle from raw materials to the paper mill end user. On November 7-8, 2012, at the Hyatt Rosemont in Rosemont, Ill., USA., you will have two days packed with all you need to know, plus:

• Nine networking opportunities where you will interact with leaders in the industry including organizations like Akzo Nobel, Eastman Chemical, Neenah Paper, RISI, Wausau Paper and many others from all aspects of the supply chain, including papermakers, machinery suppliers and manufacturers, raw material suppliers, consultants, and more.
• Access to more than 25 presentations from top-experts representing a diverse cross-section of the Specialty Papers industry
• The latest technologies and advancements from the leading companies in the paper sector on display in the exhibit h all.

Register today to join over 100 of your industry colleagues for this not to miss event!

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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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One of TAPPI's highest rated and best-attended courses, the Kraft Recovery Course, is scheduled for January 7-10, 2013 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. The intermediate-level course covers every phase of the complex kraft pulp mill recovery process and is designed for those new to the recovery area and the industry, as well as technical staff looking to better understand the process in order to take back new ideas to improve mill operations.

"The kraft recovery process is a fundamental reason that kraft pulping is the most widely used chemical pulping processes in the world and used to produce a large number of bleached and unbleached products," notes Course Chairman Honghi Tran, "The recovery process is highly complex and composed of many different unit operations and technologies. This course, taught by world-renowned experts in their field, provides attendees an excellent review of each part of the process, as well as the opportunity to interact with experts in each area to have their specific questions addressed."

The Kraft Recovery Course is taught by an internationally recognized faculty composed of 15 experts who delve into each key area.  Course Chairman Honghi Tran is Professor, the Frank Dottori Chair in Pulp and Paper Engineering, and the Director of the Pulp & Paper Centre, University of Toronto. Honghi was named a TAPPI Fellow in 2000.

The TAPPI Kraft Recovery Course provides practical day-to-day information in both traditional workshops and in team-based training sessions that will provide attendees with information on how to improve production efficiency, minimize operating costs and reduce environmental impact. Among the many topics covered are recausticizing, lime kiln operations, black liquor evaporation, recovery boiler operations, corrosion, energy optimization and energy and cost reduction. The course is  one of TAPPI's most popular and highly rated technical courses.

The TAPPI Introduction to Pulp and Paper Technology Course is co-located with the Kraft Recovery Course. This introductory course is designed for anyone new to the industry or those needing a better understanding of mill-wide operations.  The course covers the entire papermaking process from raw materials and the wood yard through pulping, papermaking and finishing operations. Attendees will learn about the pulp and paper industry's products from industry experts, and will gain knowledge that will help them increase their contribution to improving mill operations. 

Register before December 6th and you can save more than $900!

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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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Registration is now open for the TAPPI Introduction to Pulp and Paper Technology Course scheduled for January 7-10, 2013 in St.Petersburg, Fla., USA.

This is one of TAPPI's longest running courses. Why is this course one of our most popular?

Intro to Pulp and Paper Technology is unique in that it provides information on how each individual part of a paper mill influences another. This course allows you to understand how materials, pulping, and paper-making processes affect paper and board properties. You will also be delivered a broad overview of pulping and paper-making technology, including the entire pulping and paper-making process from raw materials and wood prep. to pulping and mill operations.

Four Reasons to attend Intro to Pulp and Paper Technology:

• Course pre-surveys will ensure this course meets attendees individual needs
• You will have networking opportunities during hourly breaks
• This course measures up the MOST training content in the SHORTEST amount of time
• You get the instruction of Dr. Michael Kocurek and can learn from his 45 years of experience on this topic. 

Who benefits?

• Pulp and paper company employees - new technical/operating staff, operators, non-technical personnel, chemical and direct equipment suppliers, technical service professionals, and sales people.

This course is taught by Dr. Michael J. Kocurek, Professor Emeritus, Paper Science & Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Kocurek is one of the world's most recognized educators in the field of pulp and paper industry science.

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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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By: Jeffrey Hayzlett

Running The Gauntlet is a rough-and-tumble guide for running and driving change through the business gauntlet. The book divides into three parts that parallel the three parts of change that every business leader must face: Getting Ready, Getting Going, and Creating and Sustaining Momentum.

In each section, Hayzlett shows business leaders and owners how to develop the necessary mental, emotional, and (yes) physical toughness they must have for smart, strategic, and lasting change. Through this book, Hayzlett will force leaders to really get up in their own businesses – to take them over from the inside and drive change – gaining customers and profits in the process.

Readers will be able to efficiently assess what kind of change their business needs and then summon the vision, courage, and passion to enact it. 

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Hard cover. 256 pages.

Member Price: $26.00

Item #: 11RUNN

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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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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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People who desire to lead from the middle of organizations face unique challenges. They are often held back by myths that prevent them from developing their influence. Dr. Maxwell, one of the globe's most trusted leadership mentors, debunks the myths, shows you how to overcome the challenges, and teaches you the skills you need to become a "360° leader."

If you have found yourself trying to lead from the middle of the organization, as the vast majority of professionals do, then you need Maxwell's insights. You have a unique opportunity to exercise influence in all directions-up (to the boss), across (among your peers), and down (to those you lead).

The good news is that your influence is greater than you know. Practice the disciplines of 360° leadership and the opportunities will be endless... for your organization, for your career, and for your life.

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Member Price: $25.00

Press Item #: 12LEAD

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Joel Weldon, one of the most sought after corporate speakers in North America, will provide the keynote address on Monday, April 29 at PaperCon 2013. Weldon is an award winning speaker renowned for his well-researched, informative, and engaging presentations. At PaperCon, Weldon will be addressing "Innovation Generation," how industries like paper can adapt to changing consumer habits and cost containment pressures.   

Weldon has been an idea consultant, sales trainer, and executive speech coach for many of the world's leading organizations and businesses for well over three decades. He's widely known as one of North America's most highly respected and sought-after corporate speakers. His presentations are known for effectively and specifically addressing each audience and their unique business and industry challenges, fears, risks, and opportunities.

Weldon is one of an elite group of speakers to have earned all four of the highest honors in the speaking profession. They include induction into the Speakers Hall of Fame, the coveted Communication & Leadership Award, The Golden Gavel, "for his profound impact on corporate America," and in 2006 being named "Legend of the Speaking Profession." He turned down a four-year college scholarship because he thought he wasn't "smart enough" to go to college. A former construction worker, he's living proof that human potential can be tapped, and your entire life transformed, when even one good idea is presented, accepted and acted upon.

PaperCon 2013 will feature the world's largest paper industry technical program. It has been expanded to include both tissue and nonwovens programs in 2013. PaperCon takes place April 27 through May 1, 2013, in Atlanta, Ga., USA.

Learn more about PaperCon.

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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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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

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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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