PAPTAC Bleaching Committee
June 16, 2002
4.2 MINUTES FROM LAST MEETING
Minutes were approved
4.3 MEMBERSHIP REVIEW
a)
Membership Attendance
The committee did a
good cleaning of the membership list.
Kent Ramsey will
replace Shawn Russel (Abicon-Fort Francis)
Neil Aerts will
replace Steve Paolone (Teck Cominco)
Zhi-Hua Jiang will
replace Jianxin Chen (Paprican)
Tom Burton will
replace Chris Kanters (Pioneer)
Vince
Bacani will replace Gilles St-Jean (Stone Cons.-Portage du Fort)
Two will receive
letter indicating that they are no longer considered as member because of the
lack of participation: Doug Reeves (U of T) and Rob Duncan (Fraser, Edmunston).
There is also a list
of people which were removed for various reasons (retired, moved etc.):
Lucie Veilleux – CPPA
Le Roux – Abitibi Consolidated- Grand Mère
Rogelio Vega Canovas – Champion-Cantonment
Lapointe – Daishowa
Marco Solinas – Domtar
Pierre Jean – Donohue
Tasso Skothos – Nexfor
Ted Tundstall – (Pacifica-Powell River)
Marc Barrette (Tembec-Temiscaming)
Eric Yee (Weyerhaeuser-Prince Albert)
b)
Membership mailing list
Need to check.
According to the mailing list of Jan. 2002:
70 members (14 under
probation, including alternates), 23 suppliers.
In the previous
Steering comm. minutes: 44 members, 10 suppliers, under probation not included
c)
Proposed probationary members
Tom Burton of Pioneer
was approved as a probationary member
d)
Alternates
Marilyn Cramer is replacing
Tina Larson (Weyerhaeuser-Grande Prairie)
Michel Epiney is
substituting for replacing
Gordon Homer (Air Liquide)
e)
Not attending and no alternate
Murray Walters (Pope
and Talbot), Ralph Lunn (Celgar) and Dan Davies (Degussa)
f)
Guests
Rosanna di Labio
(Praxair)
Stefano Antonacci
(BTG America)
Luke Monk (Kimberlay
Clark – Terrace Bay)
Lou Legall (Kimberlay
Clark – Terrace Bay)
g)
New honorary lifetime members
We discussed about
the possibility to give Honorary Lifetime Membership or Certificate of
Appreciation to some of our members.
4.4 SUB-COMMITTEE REPORTS
a)
Annual Meeting (Dan Davies)
Mike Schofield
reported to the steering committee on behalf of D. Davies. The main task of the
sub-committee is to organize an oxygen delignification round table for the 2003
PAPTAC Annual Meeting.
b)
Internet (Chris Kanters)
The website has
reached maturity and is user-friendly. Many thanks to Chris. We discussed the
replacement of Chris as chairman of the sub-comm. Paul Earl will be approached
as a new chairman.
c)
Bleaching Chemicals (Chris Kanters)
Ross Stacey
(Marsulex) will give a presentation on SO2. Most of the present
projects undertaken by the sub-comm. will close shortly. Need for new projects
(and people willing to drive them). A successor has to be found to replace
Chris Kanters. Ross Anderson will volunteer pending the approach of others.
d)
Bleaching Equipment (Murray Walters)
Rae Cunnington
reported to the steering committee on behalf of Murray. No real progress has
happened since the last meeting. At the present meeting, they will survey the
interests of sub-committee members.
e)
Bleaching Protocol (Dan Davies)
Irene Yaraskavitch
reported to the steering committee on behalf of Dan Davies. The revision of the
Bleaching Glossary is now completed and will be reviewed this week. Ralph Lunn
has accepted to replace Dan as chairman of this sub-comm.
f)
Teaching Bleaching (Rae Cunnington)
There is no bleaching
course planned for this year. The technical session of our next committee
meeting will addressed the topic of “Oxygen and environment” and will be
organized by Murray Walters.
g)
Environmental (Dave Willis)
A questionnaire
revealed that the member of the sub-comm. were not really interested about US
and European regulations.
They will participate
to the next technical session of our committee meeting with a presentation
on: Low AOX / O2 /
Environmental impact of these strategies.
4.5 FUTURE MEETINGS
The next meeting will
be held by Tembec, Skookumchuck next Fall.
For the next Spring
2003 meeting, a list of potential candidates has been set and they will be
contacted in the following order:
Abicon – St-Félicien
(J. Bouchard will talked to Steve Pelletier)
Domtar –
Lebel-sur-Quévillon (C. Kanters will talked to Marco Marois)
Fraser – Thurso (to
be contacted: F. Champagne)
Domtar - Cornwall
4.6 FINANCIAL
Ross Anderson
mentioned that we have about 2000$ in the bank and that everything looks good
for the next 2 meetings
4.7 OTHER BUSINESS
We will ask Paul Earl for the
Internet sub-comm.
We
will try to get a mill people for the
Bleaching Chemicals sub-comm. If impossible, Ross Anderson has agreed to
take it.
We need a new Western
Vice-Chair. Murray Walters will be approached.
Many
Liaison representatives will be replaced during the present meeting.