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Dust Mitigation Committee (DMC) - Co-Chair & Co-Secretary The purpose of the DMC is to assemble expertise from the industry (40 members now) to discuss and make recommendations about mitigating dust and the associated fires that may result. Each position is a 2-year opening but that can change if passion is high to remain engaged longer or if job demands dictate that a person needs to step away early. The main thing is for the member to get some value out of the experience as well as the committee benefiting from their support. If you are interested in either role, please contact hpeterson@tappi.org . Tissue Division Planning Committee ...

TAPPI is seeking nominations for its most prestigious awards that will be presented in 2022. Nominees should be individuals who distinguish themselves with significant industry contributions. Please take a few minutes today and recommend a deserving peer or colleague. Nominations are due August 1, 2021. Nominations are currently being accepted for: Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award - the highest honor that TAPPI can bestow upon an individual. It is granted to those who have made preeminent scientific and engineering achievements of proven applied benefit to the pulp, paper, board, and forest product industries. In addition to an engraved plaque ...

Way to go, Alex Boyd , winner of a 2021 TAPPI Process Control Division scholarship ! Alex is a sophomore at Western Michigan University (WMU) majoring in chemical engineering and paper engineering. A member of the TAPPI Ts’ai Lun chapter, Alex is currently working as a teaching assistant. This summer he will be interning as a process engineer for WestRock at their Battle Creek, MI facility. #WMU @WesternMichU @WMUEngineers #TAPPI # TAPPIProcessControlDivision #TAPPIScholarships @TsaiLunWMU https://www.tappi.org/education/college-and-university-programs/scholarship-overview/2021-tappi-scholarship-winners/alex-boyd/ ​

Spring is in the air, and so are the savings in the TAPPI Press Bookstore! For the month of April, take advantage of the TAPPI Press Spring Savings Event and save 25% on all TAPPI Press publications. Simply enter promo code APRIL25 at check out. This is a great opportunity to restock your corporate or personal library with new releases like: Lime Kilns and Recausticizing: The Forgotten Part of the Kraft Mill —just released! Make Paper Products Stand Out Film Extrusion Manual, Third Edition Black Liquor Evaporation Kraft Recovery Boilers, Third Edition Guidelines for the Safe Assessment and Operation of Yankee Dryers. ...

Nikolai DeMartini is an Assistant Professor and an NSERC Industrial Research Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. He helps run the industrial consortium, Effective Energy and Chemical Recovery in Pulp and Paper Mills. His research is focused on process chemistry in chemical recovery and renewable energy. Prior to joining U of T, he worked as a senior researcher at Åbo Akademi University at the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry focusing on black liquor and biomass combustion and at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) at Georgia Tech, where his research focused on scaling in ...

Congratulations to NCSU junior @Matthew Klassa for being named as the 2020 recipient of the William L. Cullison Scholarship, TAPPI’s top scholarship. He is a dual degree student, majoring in Paper Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering with a minor in Cross-Disciplinary Leadership Studies. Matthew gained work experience in the industry with Domtar Paper at their Plymouth, NC facility and interned with International Paper in Newport, Ind. He is also a proud member of the NC State TAPPI student chapter , and serves as the chapter’s Programs Chair, handling company dinners and panels. In addition to the Cullison Scholarship, Matthew was also ...

Scott Rosencrance is a Senior Manager at Kemira. He currently leads the Marketing and Technical applications organization for Pulping and Defoaming in the America’s. Scott used his broad business and technical skills as part of a senior management team to create a new state of the art R&D center for Kemira in Atlanta. The center has successfully combined fundamental research and commercial applications expertise into a best in class innovative product development facility. He has served as an adjunct assistant professor for the University of Minnesota’s Department of Bioscience Engineering, the Chemistry Advisory Board for Fairmont State University and ...

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT Barry Morris has 30 years of experience in the packaging industry, holding a variety of application development, R&D and new business development roles in DuPont's Ethylene Copolymer business. On April 1st he will become part of the new DOW company as DOW spins off from DOWDUPONT. He first became a member of TAPPI almost 30 years ago. He is the recipient of the International Flexible Packaging and Extrusion Division’s Technical Award and serves on the Division’s Products and Resources Team. Barry is a contributing author of several chapters in the new fifth edition of the “Extrusion Coating Manual” as well as the upcoming third edition ...

Robert J. Moon has been with USDA Forest Services for 14 years as a Materials Research Engineer concentrating in Cellulose Nanomaterials and engaging the international community of Universities, Research Institutions, and the industry in advancing research, development and deployment of Cellulose Nanomaterials. He has been a TAPPI member for more than 13 years and has served on several of the Nanotechnology Division’s committees. Robert is the current Chair of the Nanotechnology Division Council and a member on the Division’s Steering Committee, Technical Program Committee, Awards Committee, Research Committee, End-users/Products/ Applications Committee, Composite ...

One of the coolest things about this community is seeing you make connections with one another--it's incredible to watch relationships begin, grow, and change. Our community gets bigger every day. Many of you already know one another, while others are brand-new faces. I feel like it's time that we (both new members and established ones) take a little time to introduce ourselves. Share your name: Where you're from: How long you've been a TAPPI Member: How you take your coffee: Your favorite song to dance to: I'll kick us off: I'm Kristin, the community manager of TAPPI Connect, stationed mostly in humid Valdosta, GA and partly at TAPPI HQ in sunny ...

We’ve all had a moment of staring at a blank Word doc feeling overwhelmed and quite honestly, hopeless. It’s writers’ block stealing your confidence. Peter A. Snyder , National Accounts Manager at HarperLove and contributing author to numerous Corrugated publications advises us to simply “get started”. Peter is a well-established writer and professional in the Corrugated industry. He has been with HarperLove for 39 years and a member of TAPPI for more than 30 years and recipient of 2016 Corrugated Lifetime Achievement Award. Pete has submitted work in HarperLove Quarterly Bulletin, “ Corrugated Adhesives Preparation ” (TAPPI Press), Board Converting ...