Author Archives: Leslee Masters

Issues That Keep Tissue Execs Up at Night (or Should)

Issues in today’s tissue industry are without a doubt causing disruption. How we respond to them is a reflection of different corporate mindsets that will impact the decisions business owners make.

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When Operations Runs Maintenance

Are you thinking about reorganizing by having maintenance report to operations? My advice to you is: “Bad idea.” Consider, instead, keeping your central maintenance organization and putting some of the hourly workers in specific work areas.

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TJ SUMMARIES

The papers summarized here are from the TAPPI Journal September 2018 issue, featuring special peer-reviewed content from PaperCon 2018; and the October 2018 issue. TAPPI Journal is an online publication of relevant and timely peer-reviewed research delivered via email and free to all TAPPI members. To receive TAPPI Journal, join TAPPI at www.tappi.org. SEPTEMBER MICROFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE Mineral/microfibrillated cellulose composite materials: ...

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Scott Knapp Named Vice President of Operations for Voith Paper Appleton

Voith is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Knapp as its new Vice President of Operations for Voith Paper Appleton. “My top priority at Voith is to serve our customers through strong execution within our operations.  This will include focus on meeting project deliverables, ensuring reasonable lead-times as well as on-time delivery. We have outstanding products and services, and ...

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