Bring visibility to your new technology, technical success, or case study by presenting at PaperCon 2018. Abstracts are now being accepted for this global event to be held on April 15-18, 2017, in Charlotte, N.C., USA. PaperCon is considered the world’s largest technical conference for the paper and packaging industry and now you have the opportunity to be part of this premier event.  Submit your abstract by Oct. 13, 2017, to be considered.

The PaperCon Program Committee invites all paper and packaging professionals interested in participating in the PaperCon 2018 technical program to submit an abstract to the TAPPI Speaker Management System by the October 13 deadline. Topics of interest include: 

 

  

• Barrier coatings and multi-layer coatings technologies
• Coatings for packaging, ink jet papers and digital printing
• Success stories in coating and finishing
• Flexible packaging
• Coated liner

• Barrier coatings and multi-layer coatings technologies
• Novel coating materials
• Print applied barrier and specialty coatings

• Innovations in the papermaking process – anywhere from the HD through the winder
• Innovative paper products
• Innovations in paper machine research
• Innovative data analysis
• Innovations in papermaking training
• Innovative papermaking success stories

• Fourdrinier, twin-wire, hybrid, foam and stratified forming technologies
• Analysis for wet-end variability, sheet forming and structure
• Stock and additives mixing
• Wet end measurements
• CFD for practical applications.

PaperCon 2018 will be co-located with three additional events: Control Systems 2018, IDCON, NETInc, and RPTA.  Abstracts for these events are also requested on the following topics:

 

 

• IOT, cloud, and collaborative applications
• Paper machine control applications
• Sheet measurement technologies
• Process control diagnostics and analysis
• Imaging and machine vision applications 
• Pulp mill measurements and controls

 

• Best outage execution templates
• Best practice in operator equipment care routes and documentation systems
• Work management, planning and scheduling best practices
• Root cause problem elimination
• Materials selection for corrosion resistance

 

• Biobased and novel polymers
• Next generation binders and additives
• 3D printing and biomimetics
• New filtration and membrane technologies
• Fiber processing
• Converting Technologies
• Nanotechnology with nanofibers

 

• Maximizing Recycled Fiber Performance
• Energy Reduction in Recycled Paperboard mills- Success Stories
• Water Usage in Recycled Paperboard Mills
• Reliability.

For more information about submitting an abstract for PaperCon 2018, please visit the conference website at PaperCon.org or contact Sarah Lunceford, TAPPI account manager, at slunceford@tappi.org or 770-209-7345.