Phil Jones Named Winner of Herman Joachim Distinguished Service Award

Phil Jones Named Winner of Herman Joachim Distinguished Service Award 

Phil Jones, Director, New Ventures & Disruptive Technologies for Imerys, has been named recipient of the 2012 Herman Joachim Distinguished Service Award. The Award is the highest honor the Association can bestow upon an individual for exemplary leadership that has significantly contributed to the advancement of the Association. It will be presented at the 2012 PaperCon Conference Awards Dinner, Tuesday, April 24, 2012.

Jones has been a member of TAPPI since 1980, where his initial work was in Coatings and Graphic Arts due to his background in engineered minerals in paper coating and filling. Since then, he's served many roles in a wide variety of areas, including two separate occasions on the TAPPI Board of Directors and the Executive Committee. He's been Chairman of the Technical Operating Council, Coating and Graphic Division and Research Management Committee among many positions he's held. Most recently he has been involved in formation of the new TAPPI Nanotechnology Division where he is currently vice-chair. Jones has also served as Vice-Chair of the Industry Advisory Board of CPBIS and as a member of the Board of Executives of the Institute of Paper Technology (IPST), both at Georgia Tech. He's been with English China Clays, now Imerys, for 36 years.

The Herman Joachim Distinguished Service Award was established in 1983, and in 1994, Herman L. Joachim's gift of $500,000 was used to establish a Distinguished Service Award Fund. Since that time the award has been accompanied by a cash honorarium worth 5% of the fund, which in recent years has ranged from $60,000 - $80,000. Joachim was a TAPPI member for more than 70 years since he joined while working as a chemist at the Bogalusa Paper Company in Louisiana. He later managed paper mills throughout the United States and also enjoyed a successful career as an engineering consultant.

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