The opening session of this year’s Tissue360o Forum at TAPPI’s PaperCon in Nashville, Tenn., USA, provides a broad-reaching overview of the global tissue and allied converting industries. Esko Uutela, RISI, opens the session (April 28, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.) with a detailed statistical analysis of the North American tissue market, He also examines the impact of new and emerging technologies and tracks latest trends and developments worldwide.
Continuing the focus on trends and developments, Gary Rudemiller, VP of operations at Wausau Paper, Mosinee Wis., USA, a producer of environmentally preferable towel, tissue, soap, and dispensing products in the away-from-home market, looks at driving forces behind process innovations and recent and future growth in the tissue market, especially in North America. He examines the strong and still-growing away-from-home tissue and towel sector and also explores evolving dynamics of the rapidly expanding private label sector.
Rounding out the Tissue Forum opening session, Bill Sleeper, retired, Georgia-Pacific, discusses "Creating a Cross-Functional Culture of Innovation." In his presentation, Sleeper explores the critical role of innovation within a tissue production, converting, and marking environment, and how to nurture and grow it within an organization.
Following the opening session, this year’s second annual Tissue360° Forum program will focus on technical advances in base sheet structure, fiber and wet end chemistry technologies, yankee dryer operations, and finished product testing. All material is non-commercial and is selected and peer-reviewed by industry leaders with extensive tissue expertise. The program is co-located with TAPPI’s PaperCon 2014 Conference and NETInc Nonwovens Conference—attendees may attend all three events for one charge. Specific Tissue topics include:
The full Tissue Forum program is available online. There will also be a trade fair, spouse program, and numerous networking opportunities.
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