CPPA Bleaching Committee

Steering Committee Meeting, October 20, 1996

 

Attendees:       Doug McKenzie             Chair

                        Jim Collins                    Past Chair

                        Stuart Scott                   Eastern Vice Chair

                        Gary Berndt                   Subcommittee Chair - Bleaching Protocol                       

                        Jeff Tolan                       Subcommittee Chair - Environmental Impacts

                        Chris Kanters                Subcommittee Chair - Annual Meeting

                        John Griffiths                 Subcommittee Chair - Bleaching Chemicals

                        Rae Cunnington             Subcommittee Chair - Teaching Bleaching

 

Absent:                        Don Olson                     Western Vice Chair

                        Carlo Dal Monte             Subcommittee Chair - Bleaching Equipment

 

 

1.    Welcome by Doug McKenzie.

 

 

2.    Introduce new Steering Committee members

·         John Griffiths - Bleaching Chemicals

 

 

3.    New Eastern Vice-Chair

·         With Stuart Scott moving to Bleaching Committee Chair for 1997-98, a new Eastern Vice-Chair is needed.  It was suggested that the next Eastern Vice-Chair be from Quebec.  Several names were suggested (in order of priority):

·         John Barrette (Tembec - Temiscaming)                                              (declined)

·         France Champagne (James Maclaren - Thurso)                                  (declined)

·         Gilles St.- Jean (Emballages Stone - Portage-Du-Fort)                                    (declined)

·         Doug McKenzie will approach these persons about the Vice-Chair position

·         Note: Winter 1997 - Stuart Scott is still looking into this

·         It was also suggested that we ask for volunteers for this position during the Business Meeting

 

 

4.    Membership Discussion

·         Membership Guidelines:

·         No changes were recommended.

·         Members Participation / Contribution Review:

·         A letter will be sent to several members (one sustaining member (Julien Audette) and three mill members (Jillian Cook, Paul-Emile Lapointe, Doug Reeve)) regarding their lack of participation in recent years and give encouragement to them for future meeting attendance.  The letters will express concern about their attendance.

·         If a member can not make a meeting they will be encouraged to send a substitute.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

·         Structure - Supplier / General Member Ratios:

·         At the present time we allow 25% of the committee members to be sustaining members.  CPPA guidelines recommends that the maximum number of sustaining members on a standing committee be 1/3 of the total membership.  Should we increase the sustaining member percentage from 25% to 33%?   We have three applications from non-pulp mill people for probationary membership (Rosanna DiLabio - Praxair,  Doug Reid - Eka Nobel,  Bernie McNickol - NLK).

·         At the present time we have 57 full members (38 mills), 3 honorary members and 7 probationary members with the 15 sustaining members representing 25% of the membership.

·         Rosanna DiLabio and Doug Reid will be offered probationary membership.  This will bring the sustaining members representation to 28% of the members.

·         No further new probationary members will be added to the membership list at this time.  New applications for probationary members will only be considered if a present supplier member resigns from the committee.

 

 

5.  Meeting Structure (Feedback Forms)

·         See Appendix 4  (Spring 96 - meeting minutes)

·         Meeting structure for Fall/96 meeting has been changed so that subcommittees will have discussions with their smaller groups, then report and receive feedback from the entire Bleaching Committee.  Doug will discuss the new format at the opening remarks on Monday, October 21, 1996.

·         Subcommittees (especially Bleaching Chemicals) will be looking for new projects.

 

 

6.  Newsletter

·         The steering committee still feels that the newsletter is useful, but a summer 1996 newsletter was not published due to lack of material from the subcommittees  The publication is dependent on getting material to Chair in a timely fashion.  It was suggested that a deadline for submittal of material be set for the winter newsletter.  It was agreed that the deadline for the winter 97 newsletter be set for Mid-February 1997.

 

 

7.  Future Meeting Dates

1.       Spring 1997 - AlPac, Boyle, Alberta

·         Tentative Approval - Action: Doug will confirm dates with AlPac

2.       Fall 1997 - James River, Marathon, Ontario

·         Pretty firm but still not been given the final OK

·         Golfing on the Sunday prior to meeting is planned

·         Underground gold mine tour is planned

·         An alternate mill has been suggested - IRVING, St. John. They will be approached in case Marathon falls through

3.       Spring 1998 - Tentative - Weyerhaeuser, Kamloops, BC

4.       Future?

·         Irving, St. John, NB

·         Quevillon, Quebec

·         Fletcher Challenge, Mackenzie, BC

 

 

8.  Certificates of Appreciation

·         Dennis Owen - for continuing outstanding service to the Bleaching Committee

·         Doug McKenzie will get into place to present at the next meeting.

 

 

 

 

9.  Future Technical Session Themes

·         Spring 1997 - Corrosion:    one day course at the Spring 1997 meeting with a half-day on theory and half-day on experience.  Rae Cunnington has volunteered to co-ordinate.  “Rust Never Rests”

·         Fall 1997 - Pulp Strength - measurement and application

·         Other:  Steering Committee has expressed disapproval that the “Chlorine dioxide Substitution and ‘ECF Best Practices’ Survey Results” paper by Reeve and Pryke will not be available for the annual meeting since it being presented at TAPPI Pulping Conference, especially since it is from Canadian mills and the Bleaching Committee members contributed to the survey.

 

 

9.  Pulp Washing 96 Conference (Oct. 7-10, 1996, Vancouver, BC)

·         Workshop attended by ~175 persons

·         Conference attended by ~200 persons

·         Both sessions went very well

·         Mill paper participation was low.

·         CPPA needs to work on a COD Standard Method

 

 

10.  New Business:

·         CPPA Executive Council Meeting Fall 1996 Report:

·          Although neither Doug or Stuart were able to attend this meeting,  the Bleaching Committee is still used as the example to the other standing committees for meeting format, selection of new Chairs and how we run our meeting and conduct our business.

·         Doug will extract items from the meeting minutes to included in the Bleaching Committee Fall 96 meeting minutes.

·         Canton mill tour:

·         Wheelabrator will be asking the persons going on the tour to sign disclosure agreements regarding the BFR process.

·         There is limited parking at the Canton mill, so everyone will be asked to take the bus from the hotel for the tour.  A van will also be available.

·         Real Paquin:

·         Doug has received word that Real Paquin, our mill representative from Stone Consolidated, Grand Mere has recently passed away.

·         Courses:

·         The Professional Development has listed in their minutes from their last meeting that the Bleaching Committee will be sponsoring the next Bleaching Course in the Fall of 1997.   Rae suggested that we participate although we have not been formally asked.

·         Financial:

·         To offset costs for the meeting all members will be asked to contribute $20.00 US per day to offset costs for the meals, meeting rooms and for the bus.