PAPTAC Bleaching  Committee

Section 4 - Steering Committee Minutes

 

October 20, 2002

 

 

4.1 Welcome from Gavin Baxter and Nancy van Allen

 

            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

 

Succession Planning: Replacement for Murray on the bleaching equipment committee.

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.