Procter & Gamble's Jack McAneny to Keynote TAPPI's PaperCon 2011

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Jack McAneny, Associate Director Global Sustainability for Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G), will give the keynote address at the welcome session for TAPPI's annual PaperCon Conference on Sunday, May 1, 2011, at 5 p.m. PaperCon will take place May 1-4 in Covington, KY at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, located across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio. The welcome session is hosted by the TAPPI Coating and Graphics Arts Division.

"P&G has developed many Sustainable Innovation Products that have a significantly reduced environmental footprint without tradeoffs in price or performance," according to McAneny. "We recently announced a new long-term sustainability vision that includes increasing our efforts to develop products that have an improved environmental profile. This vision also includes a goal of using 100% renewable or recycled materials for all products."

McAneny helps to coordinate the implementation of P&G's sustainability strategy and leads several cross-functional and cross-business unit teams that focus on key sustainability issues. Procter & Gamble is the largest consumer products company in the world and has had formal sustainability programs in place for over a decade. As P&G's efforts have evolved, they have come to recognize sustainability as both a responsibility and an opportunity, with their current programs closely linked to their Purpose-inspired Growth Strategy. This session will provide an overview of P&G's current sustainability efforts, their long term sustainability vision, and highlight issues that may be particularly relevant for the pulp and paper industry.

Prior to joining P&G, McAneny worked for the Federal Occupational Safety & Health Administration as an Industrial Hygiene Compliance Officer. He holds a B.S. in Biology from Duke University and a master's degree from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering.

"Sustainability is a very important issue for TAPPI, our industry and its customers," notes James P. (Jim) Niemiec, PaperCon 2011 Conference Co-Chairman and Senior Manager, Product Development for NewPage Corporation. "Sustainability continues to expand as more and more companies realize that being a profitable and efficient business goes hand-in-hand with being a good steward to the environment."

The annual PaperCon Conference is the largest conference of its kind in the world. It is the annual conference for three major groups in TAPPI (Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry): PIMA (Paper Industry Management Association), TAPPI Papermakers Division and TAPPI Coating and Graphic Arts Division. The theme for the 2011 event is "Rethink Paper: Lean and Green." The conference will also feature a Sustainability Forum and Tissue Forum. The Recycled Paperboard Technical Association has also joined the conference this year with their Production-Technical seminar running concurrently. More is available at the website.