The PLACE division.(Polymers, Laminations, Coatings, Extrusions and Adhesives) Jeffrey J. Siegel, president of Mica Corporation, received the TAPPI TAPPI Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry PLACE division leadership and service award and Andreas Ahlbrandt Prize at the TAPPI PLACE Conference, September 9, 2002. Siegel has worked for Mica Corporation since 1986. He joined TAPPI in 1987 and has been very active in the PLACE division. He served as division chairman in 1998 and served as chairman of the extrusion coating committee in 1993. In 1994, he was honored with a best session award for his presentation "Extrusion coating processing" at the Polymers, Laminations, and Coatings conference. Siegel currently serves on the Operating Committee of TAPPI's Board of Directors. Thomas J. Dunn, product development director for Printpack Inc., received the PLACE division technical award and Samuel Zweig Prize at the TAPPI PLACE Conference, September 9, 2002. Dunn holds a master of forest science degree from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental studies. He became an active member in the PLACE division when he joined TAPPI in 1992. He served as chairman of the flexile flex·ile adj. Flexible. Adj. 1. flexile - able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches" flexible packaging committee from 1993 until 1995 and has served as PLACE division council member, PLACE division member at large, and PLACE division technical program chairman. Dunn has presented papers at several conferences and his work has been published in the "Flexible Barrier Materials" section of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Materials. He was also a contributor to Packaging Foods with Plastics and Snack Foods A list of snack foods is shown below. For more information, see snack foods. List of snack foods Chips (Crisps)
In addition to his TAPPI activities, Dunn is a member of the ASTM ASTM abbr. American Society for Testing and Materials Committee F2 (Flexible Barrier materials), the Flexible Packaging Association's technical committee and Solid Waste Task Force, as well as the National Product Development and Management Association. Dunn is also a certified new product professional. Lianne D. Ing received the 2002 Ralph A. Klucken Scholarship from the TAPPI PLACE division. Ing is currently a Ph.D. student in chemical engineering at the University of "Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and expects to graduate in April 2003. Ing's area of specialization is inline monitoring during plastics processing Plastics processing Those methods used to convert plastics materials in the form of pellets, granules, powders, sheets, fluids, or preforms into formed shapes or parts. . She has a U.S. and a Canadian patent on her Ph.D. thesis work on "viewing particles in a relatively translucent medium Translucent medium A medium which transmits rays of light so diffused that objects cannot be seen distinctly; that is, the medium is only partially transparent. Familiar examples are various forms of glass which admit considerable light but impede vision. ." She has received several awards including the third place Corporate Design award at the Ontario Engineering Competition The Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC)is an annual event which provides future engineers from various universities across Ontario with an opportunity to showcase their talents. in 1998; the Merit Award of the Society of Chemical Industry, Ontario Divisions; The National Graduate Studies Scholarship awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) is a Canadian government division that provides grants for research in the natural sciences and in engineering. In 2004-2005, it will invest CAD $850 million in university-based research and training. base in Ottawa, Canada, for 1998-2000 and for 2000-2002; the Best Paper Award at the Society of Plastics Engineers, Ontario Division, the Lew Erwin Extrusion Award by the Society of Plastic Engineers; and several awards from the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, . This scholarship honors Klucken who retired from TAPPI in January 1987 as Technical Divisions administrator after 20 years of service to the organization. Through his dedicated efforts to this division, Klucken was instrumental in increasing division membership, broadening the scope of its activities, and expanding the number of committees within the division. |
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