1.0 Presentation to outgoing Chairman Jim Collins by Doug McKenzie on behalf of the Bleaching Committee

2.0 Presentation to Sandwell by Jim Collins (on behalf of the Bleaching Committee) for continuing to publish and distribute the minutes

• Task Leader - Doug McKenzie
• Scribe - Don Olson
• Time Keeper - Stuart Scott
• Auditor - Gary Berndt

• Jeff Tolan is a full member, not probationary member
• "Timmins" was spelled wrong
• Alpac and Rainy River did not attend, but updates were in minutes

• amended to include presentations by Tom McDonough and Glen Black in the New Business section

• 6.1 Alkaline Pulping - John Brazil
• minutes not yet available
• next meeting middle of May
• 6.2 Mechanical Pulping - Ron Dokis
• minutes not yet available
• main concerns:
• expanding TMP production rates
• energy savings
• 6.3 Environmental - Dennis Matson
• preparation for October 24-26, 1995 Environmental Conference in Halifax
• included at the conference will be an air pollution course
• recently completed International Sludge Dewatering Survey to be presented in Atlanta
• expect to form ISO 14000 sub-committee
• 6.4 Energy - Ron Dokis
• minutes not yet available
• will meet with CPPA, Midwest Branch June 7 in Thunder Bay
• 6.5 TAPPI Bleaching - Dennis Owen (presented by Jack Histed)
• last meeting was Nov 6/94 in San Diego
• next meeting will be May 18, 1995 in Durham, NC
• Oxidative delignification subcommittee has 9 projects
• High Yield Pulp Brightening subcommittee has 4 projects
• Bleach Plant Operations,Equipment and Control subcommitte has 4 projects
• Chemical pulp Bleaching subcommittee has 9 projects
• 6.6 Research - Jean Bouchard
• no report
• 6.7 Process Control - Tony Gommersall
• Oct/94, Jan/95, May/95, Oct/95 meetings
• Process Control 1996 - April 29, 1996, Halifax, NS, anticipate 200 attendees
• 8 papers and 3 workshops presented at CPPA annual meeting 1995
• "Documentaion" project very large, may use International Standard
• two surveys currently being performed for presentation Jan/96
• 6.8 Professional Development - Rae Cunnington (read by Mike Luers)
• 6 new members
• reviewed Tech program structure and marketing
• 7 Tech 95 course (see Appendix 1)
• next meeting by conference call May/95
• 6.9 Secondary Fibre / Recycling - Tassos Skothos (by Doug McKenzie)
• waste paper supply issues
• DIP bleaching methods,problems and equipment
• next meeting May 24-25 in Sherbrook

• new members on committee must be active and signed onto a committee

• 15 items in attached minutes
• warning letters to those who miss two or three consecutive meetings
• Bleaching Committee will have a maximum of 25% non-mill members
• size of minutes will be reduced
• Future meetings - see 9.0
• Meeting schedule Mon-Wed or Tue-Thu? Overwhelmingly voted to stay at Mon-Wed
• Courses:
• Pulp Bleaching Course - scheduled for October 15-20, 1995, Whistler, BC
• 1996 International Pulp Bleaching Conference - we will encourage our sub-committees to present to our CPPA Annual Meeting first
• 1996 Pulp Washing Conference - scheduled for October 7-10, 1996, Vancouver, BC, co-sponsored by TAPPI, CPPA Bleaching, and CPPA Akaline Pulping Committees

• Sept 17-20, 1995 - Miramichi P&P and Alcell, Newcastle, NB
• Spring, 1996 - tentatively Crofton P&P, Crofton, BC
• Fall, 1996 - possible joint meeting with Alkaline Pulping committee
• full committee decided not to meet together at a joint meeting
• Mark Sordi will check whether the Fall/96 meeting could be held at AlPac
• Spring, 1997 - tentatively Canton, NC to check out BFR process

• 10.1 International Pulp Bleaching Conference April 14-18, 1996 in Washington, D.C. - Tom McDonnough
• jointly sponsored by TAPPI, CPPA, and SPCI
• see attached Call for Papers
• abstracts to Tom McDonough by August 31, 1995
• 10.2 Role of CPPA - Glen Black
• CPPA is a trade industry association of 54 companies
• Owners of CPPA are the CEOs of the 54 companies who are on the Board of Directors
• Reason? to do things once rather than 54 times by separate companies, eg.
• environmental concerns
• research
• public policy
• 3 offices - Montreal, Ottawa, and Brussels, Belgium
• Montreal - 68 staff (56 work for association in 5 broad areas. They do not work for Technical Section)
• CPPA consists of 18 Sections, including the Technical Section
• The Technical Section has about 6400 members
• The Technical Section’s main purpose is to help professionals network, partly through the 24 Section Committees
• A "Manual for Chairmen and Members" is available on request
• PAPRICAN is a research organization which is also owned by the companies, with links on the Boards of Directors and the Technical Section Committees

• 10.3 Non-process elements - Peter Gleadow
• Symposium on NPEs early 1996 by TAPPI
• looking for 5 mills who want NPE analysis done for TAPPI