PAPTAC Bleaching Committee
October 20, 2002
45 members are expected to the
meeting.
4.2 MINUTES FROM LAST MEETING
Minutes
were approved
4.3 MEMBERSHIP REVIEW
a)
Membership Attendance
We will add the date
members joined the committee
b)
Membership mailing list
Paul Earl will take
care of the mailing list
c)
Proposed new members
Luc Thibeault (
Iogen) was approved as a probationary member in replacement of Jeff Tolan
Steve Pelletier is a
new member from St-Felicien
Azim Shariff is a new
member from Domtar in replacement of Marco Solinas
Alison Rowat (Metso)
was approved as a probationary member in replacement of Eric Tremblay
d)
Alternates
e)
Not attending and no alternate
Don McCabe ( Irving
), Calvin Hastings, Rae Cunnington, Robert Jude, Peter Lau,
f)
Guests
Jerrold
Annett (Cominco)
g)
New honorary lifetime members
Rae Cunnington will
receive a Honorary Lifetime Membership from our committee.
h) Letters sent
A letters was sent to
Doug Reeve for non-participation. A letter was also sent to Rob Duncan .
4.4 SUB-COMMITTEE REPORTS
a)
Annual Meeting (Dan Davies)
Jean Bouchard will
replace Dan for the sub-committee meeting and held the discussion on the Rapson
Award after Mike Schofield made the presentation about the survey on that
matter.
The organization of
the oxygen delignification round table for the 2003 PAPTAC Annual Meeting is
going well. There will also a session made of 6 papers.
b)
Internet (Paul Earl)
Nothing special prior
to the sub-comm. meeting
c)
Bleaching Chemicals (Ross Anderson)
Safety presentation
on chlorine dioxide. Laurier Morissette will summarize the project on low cost.
Paul will present on the new bleaching practice survey. Dennis Owen will present
the list of previous topics addressed by the committee.
d)
Bleaching Equipment (Murray Walters)
A presentation from
Kari Rae on scrubbers. Murray needs to be replaced as chairman. Possible
candidates: Gavin Baxter, Gerry Pageau, Dave Thiriault.
e)
Bleaching Protocol (Ralph Lunn)
Glossary is basically
completed. They must discussed about future plan of actions to expand the usage
of our protocole worldwide.
f)
Teaching Bleaching (Rae Cunnington)
Pretty quiet because
no bleaching course this year. The sub-comm. will address the question of the
next technical session.
g)
Environmental (Dave Willis)
Developing a
technical session on emerging issues. Presenting on AOX at the tech. Session.
4.5 FUTURE MEETINGS
The next meeting will
be held by St-Felicien. Fourth week of May (26-29).
For the next meeting, a list of potential candidates has been set and they will be contacted:
Fall 03: Harmac, McKenzie, Elk, Cariboo, Hinton
Spring 04: Wayagamack (talk with Alain Bergeron)
4.6 FINANCIAL
Ross Anderson
mentioned that we have about 1500$ in the bank and that everything looks good
for the next 2 meetings. Ross will send request for 300$ to every supplier
(This is the third time it happened within the last 6 years).
4.7 OTHER BUSINESS
We discussed about
the idea of sending some kind of an executive summary of our meeting to mill
managers in order to show our value and help our members to come more regularly
to the meeting and ideally having non-participating mills to change their mind.