Lake States TAPPI--winter meeting.

--Winter Meeting

More than 100 people attended this winter's Lake States TAPPI meeting on "How to Effectively Utilize Recyeled Paper." Session chairs were Tom Lewis of Fox River Paper, Frank Labatore with Voith Paper and Jeff Keeper of Crane Engineering.

The program began with Mary Boneck of Kard Recycling. She spoke of the history of her family business and the many challenges they have faced since 1973. Today they process 1500 tons per month of collected paper to sell to mills and brokers.

Bob Swain spoke next about the different grades, quality concerns, pricing and the fixture of recycled paper.

Before lunch, Jim Moreland of GTI Sun Tex International spoke on "Stickies Control:. He spoke on the importance of boilouts, stickies analysis, and chemical addition points.

The afternoon session was presented by Loreen Ferguson of Bay West Paper Company and Jon Kerr of Andriz Inc. Ferguson reviewed the set up of the mill and how important screening has been in their stickles control. She also stressed that keeping count of the stickles in several areas has proven to be very important.

Next Bob Bohn of Metso Paper presented "Fundamentals of Drum Pulping." Bohn data on varying parameters in drum pulping, including effects of pH, consistency, and temperature along with the blending of raw materials, size, etc.

Lewis then introduced Steve Vanden Huevla of Kadant Black Clawson. Vanden Hueval highlighted the importance of fine screening.

The next presentation was presented by May Fursey of Voith. Fursey spoke on the "Reincarnation of a Pressure Screen" at the Georgia Pacific Green Bay West mill. David DePietro of Georgia Pacific's Neenah Technical Center contributed too greatly. The data was reviewed and the before and after results were compared.

Before adjourning, Garnet Bremner of Madison Paper spoke on the deink mill start up in Alsip, Illinois, USA. He reviewed the massive changes made to the old FSC mill. When they took the deink plant and paper machine from kaing newsprint to LWC with a 75% recycle content.