Room: Mc Gill
Chair: Sylvain Bricault, Mill Manager, Domtar Windsor 

Reliability: it’s everyone’s job!

By invitation only

Tissue Track - Tissue Creping and Converting Operations

Room: Notre-Dame
Moderator: Frédéric Parent, FPInnovations

8:30 "Mechanics of Tissue Creping: Modeling and Experiments", Shubham Agarwal, University of British Columbia
9:00 "Adhesives and Additives for Converting Efficiency", Nicholas Meyer, Henkel
9:30 "Improving Tissue Uniformity to Enhance Converting Runnability", Dre Nina Deng, FPInnovations

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Reliability session

Room: Saint-Denis
Session Chair: Ian Mckinnon, Reliability Solutions

8:30 "Closing the gap between technology and results", Christer Idhammar, IDCON INC
9:00 "Maintenance Planning and Scheduling to Overcome the Manpower Shortage in the Industry", Michel Cote, Norda Stelo
9:30 "Online monitoring of pulp and paper mill equipment health", Mattieu Berlinguette, Contrôles Laurentide

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Energy Technical session

Room: Mansfield
Session Chair: Serge Bédard, CanmetENERGY 

8:30 "Industrial energy storage in the P&P industry", Aurel Giroux, Stantec
9:00 "Rethinking vacuum systems to reduce energy costs ", Troy D Miller, Gardner Denver Nash & Runtech Systems, Inc.
9:30 "Towards a carbon neutral pulp and paper industry: overview of available technologies", Sara Eskandarifar, CanmetENERGY

Tissue Track - Manufacturing, Yankee Operations and Chemistry

Room: Notre-Dame
Moderator: Stéphan Larivière - FPInnovations

10:30 "Steam system considerations for Yankee dryer replacements", Mike Soucy, Kadant
10:50 "Active-Air Sheet Support For Increased Machine Efficiency", Alain Chamberland, Andritz
11:10 "Enhanced Process Control Through Advanced Instrumentation", Frank Cunnane, Cristini
11:30 "Modifying PVOH for Premium Quality Structured Tissue at Maximum Throughput", Rémi F. Charron, Buckman

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Reliability session

Room: Saint-Denis
Session Chair: Ian Mckinnon, Reliability Solutions

10:30 "How to implement precision maintenance", Mattieu Berlinguette, Contrôles Laurentide
11:00 "Observations and Challenges for Improvements", Ian Mckinnon, Reliability Solutions

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Energy Technical session

Room: Mansfield
Session Chair: Eric Gingras, Office of Energy Efficiency 

10:30 "Reducing energy cost through the use of Digital Twin technology", Benoit Janvier, Enero Solutions
11:00 "Lime kiln efficiency improvement and impact of alternative fuels on kiln capacity", Raymond Burelle, JRRB Consulting 
11:30 "Certification process for the ISO 50001 at Cascades", Étienne Fobasso, Cascades CS+ Inc

Room: Place du Canada

Luncheon Keynote: H.E. Urban Ahlin, Ambassador of Sweden to Canada

Followed by the PAPTAC Awards Ceremony

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Tissue Track - Alternatives Fibers for Tissue and Towel Applications 

Room: Notre-Dame
Moderator: Dr. Xuejun Zou - FPInnovations

13:30 "Non-Wood Pulp in Tissue and Towel", Mark Lewis, Sustainable Fiber Technologies
14:00 "The use of bamboo fibre in tissue making in China", Dr. Yonghao Ni, University of New Brunswick
14:30 "The Columbia Pulp; Options for Tissue and Towel", Kristi Kobetich, Columbia Pulp LLC

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Reliability Projects from Mills

Room: Saint-Denis
Session Chair: Ian Mckinnon, Reliability Solutions

13:30 "RCM Implementation - #1 Pulp Machine", Skylar Koerber, Mercer Celgar
14:00 "Domtar Windsor Reliability good practice", Sébastien Gingras & Richard Marois, Domtar Windsor
14:30 "Reliability program wrap-up and assessment for mill implementations", Ian Mckinnon, Reliability Solutions

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Energy Technical session

Room: Mansfield
Session Chair: Serge Bédard, CanmetENERGY 

13:30 “Steam Plant Reliability Improvement With Review of Internal Treatment Chemistry History and Case Study Using Novel Treatment”, Gregoire Poirier Richer & Terry Morrison SUEZ Water Technologies and Solutions
14:00 "Evaporator Optimization Using Digital Twin Technology", Jarmo Kaila, Andritz
14:30 "Energy Management in Pulp and Paper Mills", Eric Gingras, Office of Energy Efficiency