Celebrating Excellence: Announcing Our John S. Bates Gold Medal Winner!

It is with great pride that we announce the recipient of the John S. Bates Memorial Gold Medal – our highest honor recognizing outstanding contribution, dedication, impact, and excellence within our industry. Please join us in congratulating Jacques Perrault on this well-deserved achievement!

Jacques has exemplified leadership, innovation, and collaboration — making a significant difference in advancing our mission, supporting the industry, and driving progress.

Jacques Perrault, Chemical engineer, graduated from Polytechnique in 1976 and has worked for various paper companies (CIP, Domtar, Alliance forest Products, Bowater, Cascades) on the optimization and troubleshooting of papermaking processes of different grades (newsprint, groundwood specialties, fine papers and containerboard).

He also worked for Black Clawson, a paper machine builder, on the Top Flyte program and was directly involved with new machine projects as technical manager, such as Dolbeau PM5, Donnacona PM4 and the conversion of the Bear Island newsprint machine to containerboard. Jacques supported other start-ups such as those of Domtar Windsor PM7 and 8 and that of Greenpac, and prepared for Hydro-Québec a practical guide to energy conservation in papermaking.

Jacques Perrault was involved with the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association throughout his career and a member of OIQ, PAPTAC, TAPPI and IASPM. He holds a patent on an instrument to measure paper cockling, and was presented with the PAPTAC C. Howard Smith and Jasper Mardon awards.