TAPPI Tissue Operations Course Set for August 10-11

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The TAPPI Tissue Properties & Manufacturing Course, scheduled for August 10 - 11, 2011, at TAPPI’s headquarters in Norcross, Ga., USA, will deliver a comprehensive and structured overview of tissue manufacturing processes, and their effects on product performance. The course is specifically designed to increase the ability of attendees to improve manufacturing operations and produce a more competitive product. Register before July 13 and receive a $100 early bird discount.

Course topics will cover:

• Tissue properties and tests and how these relate to sheet structure
• Performance effects of fiber raw materials, pulp mill, and recycling operations
• Stock prep refining for tissue
• Chemicals for tissue
• Tissue machine wet end operations and effects on sheet structure and properties, including multilayer headboxes, formation, fiber orientation, dewatering, and fabrics for sheet forming and sheet structure
• TAD and yankee drying and effects on properties Wet felts for obtaining desired sheet structure
• Creping
• Calendering.

Instructors for this special course are: Michael J. Kocurek (chair), PhD, Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University, who has taught this tissue short course to operators at multiple corporations and mills; Lucyna M. Pawlowska, tissue process application specialist, Kemira North America; Peter E. McCabe, tissue business leader, AstenJohnson; and Roger Banks, tissue press felt section presenter, AstenJohnson.

More Information about this course, including registration, is available on the course webpage.