Register Today – Advanced Hands-On Papermaking
The Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology and TAPPI have partnered together to bring you two exciting courses to further your papermaking knowledge this year:
Led by Dr. Gerry Ring, Professor Emeritus of Paper Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, attendees will gain fundamental knowledge of the commercial papermaking process.
- the relationship between sheet structure and paper qualities
- why paper making fibers floc
- manufacturing techniques that minimize fiber floccing
- the relationship between sheet structure, formation, and paper properties
- both visual and instrumental measurement of formation
- the difficulties associated with the correlation of visual formation assessment and the instrument measurement.
- the difference between acid and alkaline papermaking
- the difference between process additives and product improving additives
- the basics of retention aid functionality
- the difference between wet and dry strength additives
- foam control, pitch control and biocides
- the purpose and use of fillers.
"The course had good classroom/hands–on ratios. We got to apply what we learned right away."
— Jack Ingram, Neenah Papers
Register and save your seat today! Class size is limited to just 16 attendees in order to ensure generous time for questions and discussion during classroom sessions and hands-on opportunity on the paper machine.
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