SCA's Bingham retires after 39 years.

SCA'S BINGHAM RETIRES AFTER 39 YEARS. Lee Bingham, a TAPPI Fellow who began his career in 1966 as a process engineer with P.H. Glatfelter Co., retired from his post as senior vice president of SCA Americas in July, 2005.

"As general manager of Georgia Pacific Tissue, Lee was their lead person who coordinated the divestiture of that company to SCA," said John O'Rourke, head of Human Resources and Corporate Communications for SCA Americas, part of the $13 billion global paper products company SCA. "He was president and CEO of SCA Tissue North America following the acquisition and, in his current position, has been the project sponsor for a greenfield tissue mill in Barton, Alabama--the largest capital project ever for a greenfield site in global SCA history."

Bingham has been a TAPPI member since 1967 and is a TAPPI Fellow; he has also been a member of the University of Maine Pulp & Paper Foundation since 1967 and is currently serving as its chairman. He will be sharing the expertise gathered during his distinguished career as the keynote speaker at the 2005 TAPPI Fall Technical Conference in Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2005.