The Annual Conference of the
Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry
January 24, 2020
Prof Robert Pelton to receive
PAPTAC’s Gold Medal The PAPTAC National Awards will be taking centre stage at the PaperWeek Awards Business Luncheon, on Thursday February 6th at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Please join us in celebrating this year’s award winners!
Robert Pelton, Professor of Chemical Engineering & Director, McMaster Centre for Pulp and Paper Research, will be presented the John S. Bates Memorial Gold Medal, PAPTAC's highest individual honour, awarded to a member of the Association in recognition of their great contribution to the science and technology of the pulp and paper industry.
A Certificate of Appreciation will be presented to Suzanne Smith, Process Engineer at AV Group
NB, for her services to PAPTAC, particularly
her long standing involvement with the
Atlantic Branch, and to the Canadian pulp and
paper industry.
A Certificate of Appreciation will be presented to François Héon, for his exceptional service to
PAPTAC, the Canadian pulp and paper industry,
and specifically to the Eastern Canadian Black
Liquor Recovery Boiler Advisory Committee
(ECBLRBAC).
The F.G. Robinson Award honouring the Chair of a PAPTAC Committee who, in the opinion of the Executive Council, has contributed the most towards the furtherance of the aims and objectives of the Association and who has shown outstanding leadership and service to his or her committee, will be presented
to Brian Labrash, Versoco, for his term as
Chair of the Bleaching Committee.
The Howard Rapson Memorial Award for best
chemical pulp bleaching paper will be presented to John Gillespie - JD Irving, Leslie Adams, IPP and Marcius De Oliveira - Capstone for their paper entitled “Advanced Control Solution for BP - Challenges & Benefits”.
The Jasper Mardon Award for best papermaking
paper will be presented to Stéphanie Morin - Domtar for her presentation “Thinking Outside
of the Headbox when Troubleshooting the
Paper Machine”.
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