In Memoriam: Dr. Helmut Stark

A native of Austria, Dr. Helmut Stark earned his doctorate degree in pulp and paper mechanical engineering from Graz Technical University. While attending school, he worked as a development engineer at the R & D Centre of J.M. Voith GmbH in Heidenheim, Germany. In 1968, he took a position as project leader and chief engineer for Borregaard Industries Ltd. in Hallein. Three years later, he transferred to J.M. Voith AG in St. Pölten as director of its Paper Machine Building Department. He remained with Voith until accepting his position at Graz Technical University in 1977. In 1976, Dr. Stark was named a full professor of paper and pulp technology. From 1985 to 1989, he served as dean of the Mechanical Engineering Department.

A TAPPI member since 1981, Stark presented at the 1988 TAPPI Coating Conference and at the 1995 TAPPI Emerging Technologies Workshop. He was elected a TAPPI Fellow in 1997.

Stark authored and co-authored some 50 articles and books and approximately 70 technical papers on fundamental and applied research aspects of process engineering and machinery design, alternative fibrous raw materials, environmentally benign pulp production, and physico-chemical testing methods. He is recognized as the scientific organizer of the annual Austrian Paper Technology Conference in Graz , and he served as program committee chairman for the 1993 EUCEPA Conference in Vienna.

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