Tissue360 Forum Include Three Special Tissue Properties Workshops

This year’s Tissue360° Forum at PaperCon, April 28-30 in downtown Nashville, Tenn., USA, includes three special Tissue Properties Workshops (CEUs available for all three workshops), set for Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. The first of the workshops at 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. on Monday the 28th provides an overview of standardized tissue testing methods, why they are needed, and how they are developed. Speakers in this session are Steve Berg of Thwing-Albert Instrument Co., Todd Popson of Technidyne, and Charles Bohanan of TAPPI. 

Then on Tuesday morning, the 29th, from 8:00 a.m. – 10 a.m., a review of tensile, absorbency, and softness measurement techniques will be covered in Tissue Properties Workshop II, titled Test Methods in Development. Speakers include David Loebker of Procter & Gamble, Tim Patterson of Ashland Water Technologies, Michael J. Kocurek, professor emeritus at North Carolina State University, and Jeff Lundeen, of Georgia-Pacific.

Following the morning break on that same day, from 10:30 a.m. – noon, Tissue Properties Workshop III looks at Laboratory Meaurement Control. This session provides a review of sources of variation in tissue testing and advice for setting up or evaluating the performance of a test lab.

In addition to the three Tissue Properties Workshops, this year’s second annual Tissue360° Forum program will focus on converting innovations, technical advances in base sheet structure, fiber and wet end chemistry technologies, and yankee dryer operations. 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:  

• Converting Innovations
• Fiber Usage and Supply 
• Wet End and Creping Chemistry 
• Insights into Sheet Structure
• Tissue Testing Workshop – Standards and Methods
• Yankee Operations and Mill Safety.

The full program  is available online. There will also be a trade fair, spouse program, and numerous networking opportunities.