Past Program:
TW Americas 2008
Conference Theme – Meeting the Challenges in Today's Tissue Business
| Tuesday March 11, 2008 – Morning |
09:00 |
Opening of the Conference
Hugh O’Brian, Industry Consultant and Conference Chairman CMP Asia Trade Fairs Pte Ltd., Sweden
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OPENING PRESENTATION |
09:15 |
North American Tissue Market Developments and a Look at the Supply/Demand Balance
Esko Uutela, Consultant to RISI |
| 10:00 |
Carbon Footprint Labelling: Coming to Tissue Products?
Roland McKinney, Director, Fibre Research Consultants Ltd., UK |
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| SESSION 1: PAPERMAKING DEVELOPMENTS |
| 10:30 |
ATMOS - Technology Features and Performance of the 1st Commercial Machine
Thomas T. Sherb, General Manager, R&D Technology, Voith Paper, Brazil & Carlos J. Hirigoyen, Director, Industrial Development, CMPC Tissue, Chile
Co-Author: Rogério Berardi, Technology Marketing – Tissue/R&D Engineer, Voith Paper, Brazil |
11:00 – 11:20 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:20 |
Yankee Drying for Optimum Energy Usage
Ingvar Klerelid, Vice President, Product Management, Metso Paper, Sweden |
| 11:40 |
Application of Steel Yankees in Tissue Machines
Joerg Bauboeck, R&D and Product Manager, Tissue Machines, Andritz AG, Austria |
| 12:00 |
Chatter and Soft Tissue Production – Process Driven Mechanisms
Sam Archer, Principal Consultant, Nalco, USA
Co-Authors: Vladimir Grigoriev, Gary Furman, Larry Bonday, Winston Su, Nalco, USA |
| 12:20 |
Questions & Answers (10 mins) |
| 12:30- 14:00 |
Lunch (conference lunch served on the Second Level) |
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| Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - Afternoon |
| 14:00 |
Improved Drying Efficiency via Yankee Hood Management
Dominique Thifault, Manager Technical Services, Enerquin Air Inc., Canada
Co-Author: Michael J. Dillon, Manager, Environmental & Risk Management, SCA Tissue North America LLC, USA |
| 14:20 |
Effective Tissue Web Cleaning and Dust Removal: Dream or Reality?
Bob Bates (replacing Heikki Luoma), General Manager, Metso Paper
Ltd. – Air Systems, USA |
| 14:40 |
Effects of Release/Modifying Agents on Adhesion
Doeung D. Choi, Sr. Research Scientist, Hercules Inc., USA |
| 15:00 |
ADT - A New Concept in Tissue Manufacturing
Ed X. Graf, Member, APM, LLC, USA
Co-Author: Rene Naranjo, Product Manager TAD and Tissue, AstenJohnson, USA |
| 15:20 |
Questions & Answers (20 mins) |
| 15:40 |
Coffee Break (20 mins) |
| 16:00 |
End of First Day |
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (Morning Sessions only) |
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| SESSION 2: SOFTNESS, STRENGTH AND SURFACE TREATMENT |
| 09:00 |
Softness – Do Customers Really Know What They Want?
Wes McConnell, Tissue R&D Director, Asia Pulp and Paper, Indonesia |
| 09:20 |
Enhanced Fiber Additives for Strength and Machine Performance Improvement
Jagannadh Satyavolu, Business & Technology Development Manager, Enhanced Fiber Additives, Cargill, Inc., USA & Dan J. Platkowski, Sr. VP Tissue Business, ST Paper, LLC, USA |
| 09:40 |
Enhancing Tissue Paper by Use of Electrostatic Spraying
Peter Volf, President, ChemPro Inc., Canada |
| 10:00 |
A New Measuring Principle for Softness Evaluation
Giselher Gruener, General Manager, Emtec Electronic GmbH, Germany |
| 10:20 |
Assessment of Tissue Softness Using Ultrasonic Technology
Kerin Lester, General Manager, SoniSys Inc., USA
Co-Author: Kenny Corscadden, Technology Transfer Specialist, Sonisys Inc., USA |
| 10:40 |
Questions & Answers (10 mins) |
| 10:50 |
Coffee Break (20 mins) |
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| SESSION 3: CONVERTING, PACKAGING, WRAPPING AND LOGISTICS |
| 11:10 |
Quantity or Quality? Granting Value to Tissue Products
Guido Finocckì, Managing Director, Fabio Perini SpA, Italy |
| 11:30 |
Moving Into the 21st Century with Improved Maintenance Planning
Lorenzo Trimigno, President,
Tissue Excellence Center, Inc., USA |
| 11:50 |
Material Handling Automation: Successful Automation of Existing Plants
William Nelson, Sales Director, Elettric80, Inc., USA |
| 12:10 |
The Future of Tissue Packaging
Massimo Grandi, Sales Manager, KPL Packaging SpA, Italy |
| 12:30 |
The Benefits of Integrated Systems in Optimizing Mill Performance
Jim Pigott, Director of Sales, Americas and Australasia, TietoEnator Forest, Canada |
| 12:50 |
Questions & Answers (10 mins) |
| 13:00 |
End of the second day (no afternoon sessions) |
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2008 from 5:30pm to 7pm. |
Meet all your friends and make new ones at the Tissue World Americas 2008 Cocktail Reception in the Exhibit Hall B of the Miami Beach Convention Center.
(Welcome to all conference delegates, speakers and exhibitors only – admission with badge only!)
Meet all your friends and make new ones at the Tissue World Americas 2008 Cocktail Reception in the Exhibit Hall B of the Miami Beach Convention Center.
(Welcome to all conference delegates, speakers and exhibitors only – admission with badge only!)
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| Thursday, March 13, 2008 (Morning Sessions only) |
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| SESSION 4: STOCK PREP AND PULPING |
| 09:00 |
The ShortFlow Compact Tissue Concept
Jon Kerr, Director, Sales & Technology, Andritz Inc., USA
Co-Author: Ari Pelkiö, Director Technology & Products, Andritz Oy, Finland |
| 09:20 |
Modular Deinking Technology: The Saudi Paper Experience
Marco Pescantin, Sales Director, Sr. Process Engineer, Comer SpA, Italy |
| 09:40 |
New Opportunities in Refining Pulp Fibres for Tissue Products
Hannu Paulapuro, Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Co-Author: Kari Koskenhely, Manager Applications, Refining, Advanced Fiber Technologies (AFT) Oy, Finland |
| 10:00 |
Questions & Answers (10 mins) |
| 10:10 |
Coffee Break (20 mins) |
| 10:30 |
Microfilters: Saving Fiber is Only the Tip of the Iceberg
Len Dewhurst, Director of Sales, Asia Region, Algas Fluid Technology Systems AS, Norway |
| 10:50 |
Advanced Microbiological Monitoring and Control with New Stabilized Halogen Programs
Charles Foss, Sr. Market Consultant, Nalco Company, USA |
| 11:10 |
Enzymatic Fiber Modification in Tissue Manufacturing: A Practical Review
Rosy Covarrubias, Manager, Product Development, Buckman Laboratories, USA |
| 11:30 |
Questions & Answers (15 mins) |
| 11:40 |
End of third day (no afternoon sessions) |
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| Friday, March 14, 2008 (Morning Sessions only) |
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| SESSION 5: PROCESS CONTROL AND TESTING |
| 09:00 |
Tissue & Towel Quality Measurement & Control Advances
Thomas H. Steele, Sr. Segment Marketing Manager – Paper Applications, Honeywell Process Solutions, Canada
Co-Authors: Ross MacHattie, Robert N. Vyse, Bradford C. Garnett, Honeywell Process Solutions, Canada |
| 09:20 |
High Speed Digital Video for Improvements in Quality, Efficiency and Capacity of Converting Operations
Jason Box, Process Leader, SCA Tissue North America, USA & Ray D. Trudeau, Vice President, Monitoring Technology Corp., USA |
| 09:40 |
Intelligent Decisions for Optimized Productivity
Elisa Jannasch, Marketing Manager, Parsytec AG, Germany
Co-Author: Andrea Friedrich, Key Account Manager, Parsytec AG, Germany |
| 10:00 |
Questions & Answers (10 mins) |
| 10:10 |
Coffee break (20 mins) |
| 10:30 |
Applying Control Systems to the New Air Dried Tissue (ADT) Machine Concept
Darren C. Honaker, Application Engineer, TMEIC-GE Automation Systems, USA |
| 10:50 |
A New Way of Diagnosing and Preventing Web Handling Problems
Avinash Persad, Sales & Service Engineer, PRUFTECHNIK Service, USA
Co-Author: Arun Sasikumar, Executive Vice President, PRUFTECHNIK Service, USA |
| 11:10 |
TAD Fabric Apparatus Speeds Product Development
Ian G. Lang, Product Development Leader, AstenJohnson, Canada
Co-Author: Rae Patel, New Product Development Engineer – Forming, AstenJohnson, Canada |
| 11:30 |
Question & Answers (10 mins) |
| 11:40 |
Closing of the Conference |
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