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Devoted Family Man with a Collaborative Spirit!

Project Manager
Ahlstrom-Munksjö – Stevens Point, Wisconsin

“It’s about the people you meet. I can’t tell you how many times I reached out to someone I met at a conference and ended up collaborating with them” – Don Guay, Ph.D.

Don has 21 years of experience in the paper industry, most notably at Verso, ND Paper and Ahlstrom-Munksjo in both Engineering, and Operations Management roles. Don also received tenure with the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point Paper Science and Engineering Department. He has a Bachelor of Science in Paper Science from University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Maine.

Don and his wife, Kelly, live in the Stevens Point area with their five children. He loves to camp with the kids and enjoys downhill skiing and curling in the winter. Don and Kelly also own a winery!

Is there any particular review that has impacted you? Please tell us about your experience.
What’s interesting is that I went to graduate school and did lots of work in pulping and bleaching. We did the Kappa number test at least a thousand times, then, I went on to review the TAPPI T 236 test method (dug into it) and for the first time I realized that I didn’t really understand how the test works. That review was really invigorating, I found certain things that I did not like. There were conversions that were a bit clunky, so I took the opportunity to understand how it really works to apply modifications and improve them.

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