Minutes of Meeting
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Attendees:
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Jim Collins - Acting Chair
Don Olson - Western Vice Chair
Don McCabe - Eastern Vice Chair
Jeff Tolan - Sub-Committee Chair (Environmental Impacts)
Chris Kanters - Sub-Committee Chair (Annual Meeting Internet)
Carlo Dal Monte - Subcommittee Chair - Bleaching Equipment
Sekar Chandrasekaran - Subcommittee Chair - Bleaching Chemicals (alternate)
Rae Cunnington - Subcommittee Chair - Teaching Bleaching
Gary Berndt - Subcommittee Chair - Bleaching Protocol
Glen Black - Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada Technical Section
Per Klykken - TAPPI Bleaching Committee Chair
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Absent:
- Doug McKenzie - Past Chair
Stuart Scott - Chair
John Griffiths - Subcommittee Chair - Bleaching Chemicals
2. Introduced new Steering Committee members and guests
3. New Eastern Vice Chair - Don McCabe
4. Passing of Howard Rapson:
- Doug Reeve has set up the W. Howard Rapson Memorial Fund for support of Chemical Engineering Education in Pulp and Paper - see attached memorial note - need clarification whether this is for all P&P or just for University of Toronto
- an article was printed in the April 1997 Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada Technical Section news bulletin
- should we make an award (possibly jointly with TAPPI) of say $1000 per year in Howard's name? Note that Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada already has many awards, including the John S. Bates award for lifetime achievement. If we want to, then we should send a letter requesting such to the executive committee.
- could present an award at the end of the year for the best of all the student branch papers
- many ideas for awards were brought up - decided to regroup tomorrow and make a final decision
- some members (Jim, Chris) may attend the memorial service
- none
- discussed differences between TAPPI and Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada membership bylaws
- will send letters requesting attending attendance at future meetings to:
- Julien Audette
- Stan Heimburger
- Gilles Volpe (and his mill manager)
- Murray Webster (and his mill manager)
- will send letter to John Rizzi (NZ) requesting two-way communication with their bleaching committee
- remove Marco Solinas from membership list as he no longer is the MBR representative. Discuss with Domtar who will be the Domtar rep.
- Barbara VanLierop has requested that the committees allow non-mill members to be vice-chairs and chair as needed. We agree but require that we cannot have two non-mill member chairs in a row. By-laws of Bleaching Committee to be changed to reflect this.
- no requests to move from probationary to full membership
- one new membership request - Per Klykken, TAPPI Bleaching Chair
- none
- good letter Stuart - worth continuing!
- October 1997 - Irving P&P , St. John, NB (with Alkaline Pulping Committee)
- Spring '98 - Weyerhauser, Kamloops, BC (same week as PacWest)
- Quebec mill? Quevillon, St. Felicien
11. Subcommittees
- Internet/E-mail - Chris Kanters will discuss this item at the general meeting
- Chris has discussed setting up a WEB page under Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada's WEB page. He volunteered to keep the page up-to-date. Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada will cover the cost for our committee and the Process Control committee as we are the guinea pigs for this new system. Will consider putting reference info on WEB page (eg. protocol), but new info or problems/questions via E-mail.
- Chris will poll people to see whether many have access to WEB sites as well as E-mail
- Fall '97 - General session with theme of Pulp Quality - need volunteer to organize it
- TAPPI is having a roundtable with papermakers discussing what the recent changes in bleaching technology has done to the papermakers
- Other ideas will be requested at meeting
- Sep 14, 1997, Nanaimo, BC - Norm has all speakers scheduled, but registration not yet out, lots of interest shown so far, Harmac has agreed to a mill tour
- consider using Dan Davies' Bleaching Protocol presentation - Rae will discuss at Teaching Bleaching subcommittee
- Engineering Data Sheets
- bleaching is under the E section of the Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada data sheets, and are all last updated in the 60s. Do we want to take on the updating of these sheets? The Engineering Data Sheet Committee has been defunct for twenty years, so the Protocol subcommittee will liaison with the other subcommittees to update section E
- Meeting minutes
- need to be more abbreviated
- minutes contain a summary of the papers, so rather than put the paper itself in the minutes, simply put a list of the papers with authors name, and if you require more info call the author for the paper
- still require attendance list and list of members in the minutes
- Distribution of minutes for Joint Meeting with TAPPI - Rae will send one copy to Per who will then be responsible to distribute as needed to TAPPI members
Mission Statement and Goals - Sub-Committees - Committee Officers - Feedback
Upcoming Meeting - Previous Meeting Minutes - Upcoming Conferences - Courses - Links - need to be more abbreviated
- bleaching is under the E section of the Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada data sheets, and are all last updated in the 60s. Do we want to take on the updating of these sheets? The Engineering Data Sheet Committee has been defunct for twenty years, so the Protocol subcommittee will liaison with the other subcommittees to update section E
- Julien Audette