Room: Mc Gill
Chair: Paul Falardeau, Mill Manager, Resolute FP – Alma
Safety – what’s trending: an overview of new approaches in Safety, and roundtable on recent experiences and initiatives in each mill
By invitation only
Room: Saint-Denis
Session Chair: Javad Saberian, Kruger
8:30 "The Importance of Balancing Paper Machine Hood Air Systems", Lawrence Yane, Enerquin Air
9:00 "Toscotec’s dryer section rebuild: the in-depth analysis of a case history", Fabrizio Charrier, Toscotec
9:30 "Thermocompressor Applications in Paper Drying", Mike Soucy, Kadant
Room: Notre-Dame
"Optimizing communication between team members and getting better collaboration and leadership results"
Annie Boilard, President, Réseau d’Annie
Training Specialist– Strategic Planning & Organizational Development
Room: Mansfield
Session Chair: Michael Kjerulf, Ecolab
8:30 "Designing a Bleach Plant Control Solution where raw material changes affect Pulp Bleachability of the stock", Michael Doucet, BTG
9:00 "Screening – Are you getting the best out of your screen room?", Marc-Alexandre Nickner, Valmet
9:30 "Bleach Plant focused Effluent Improvements, Past, Present and Future", Jason Smith, Irving
Room: Saint-Denis
Session Chair: Frédéric Parent, FPInnovations
10:30 "Roquette Pea starch VECTOR® N-735", Lucie Mandanici , Quadra Chemicals
11:00 "Surface application of MFC", Marc Foulger, Valmet
11:30 "Green ASA Technology", Elisabeth Lackinger-Csarmann, Kemira Austria
Room: Notre-Dame
Session Chair: Michel Bertrand, Domtar
10:30 "Challenges of training a new employee in your department", Sean McKinley, Irving Paper
11:00 "Performance Improvement: the Hoshin Kanri (or True North) approach to reduce the gap between strategic planning and mill operations", Martin Carignan, Difference Consulting
11:30 "Digital Twin Solutions for Industry 4.0", William Thomas, DataMasters
Room: Mansfield
Session Chair: Dan Davies, Evonik
10:30 "Alkaline oxidation method for producing dissolving pulp for textile fibres", Hanna Hörhammer, VTT
11:00 "Fibre Species and Chip Classification:Effects on Yield, Kappa, and Strength", Ralph Lunn, Mercer Celgar
11:30 "Implementation of NORAM’s CellchemTM Sulphur Burner at a Canadian Pulp Mill", Shane VanCaeseele, NORAM
Room: Place du Canada
Luncheon Panel: Experienced workforce and younger generations – are their aspirations that different?
The need to renew the industry’s workforce is widely agreed upon as one of the key challenges of the forest industry today. Considering the fact that we have about four generations in the workforce at the same time, each with distinct values, aspirations, habits, shaping events and outlook for the future, can we harness and benefit from the opportunities presented by this level of diversity?
This panel will look at how the industry can better take advantage of the combined experiences of the different generations of its workforce while providing insight on attracting and retaining the newer generations.
The panel will be moderated by Mr. Karl Moore Ph.D., McGill University, a decorated Management professor, Author and Interviewer.
Karl Moore Ph.D.
McGill University
Luana Dessbesell, Ph.D.
Biorefinery and Supply Chain Specialist
EnVertis Consulting Inc. / Polytechnique Montreal
Kathy Buckman Gibson
CEO and President, KBG Technologies
Board Member, Buckman
Kevin Lyrette
Directeur stratégique des ressources humaines / Strategic HR Manager
Kruger Inc.
Room: Saint-Denis
Session Chair: Justin Charron, Irving Paper
Kick-off presentation by Lincoln Esau, Irving Paper
"PM1 Return to 4-Setters GreenBelt"
Room: Crescent
Session Chair: Stephane Lamoureux, Kruger
Gestion de la performance
Table ronde sur le déploiement de l’approche Hoshin Kanri (ou True North) afin de réduire l‘écart entre la planification stratégique et l’opération des usines et en gestion du changement.
Pierre a longtemps travaillé comme surintendant dans l’industrie papetière et par la suite travaillé à implanter des systèmes d’amélioration continue à la société des casinos, puis à la STL. Grâce entre autre a son parcours dans le secteur papetier, Pierre pourra faire des parallèles précis de cette approche avec les usines de pâtes et papiers.
Animateur: Pierre Bincette, Conseiller en amélioration continue Société de transport de Laval (STL)
Co-animateur : Martin Carignan, Difference Consulting
Room: Mansfield
Session Chair: Dan Davies, Evonik
13:30 "Cleanflow Technology for Green and White Liquor Filtration", Rohan Bandekar, Noram
14:00 "Results and Benefits of Novel Advanced Process Control System implementation at Kraft pulp mill", Vivek Rajbhandari, Texo
14:30 "Recovery and Causticizing Plant Control and Optimization Using Fundamental Measurements", Thanh Trung, FITNIR Analyzers Inc.
Room: Saint-Denis
Session Chair: Justin Charron, Irving Paper
Kick-off presentation by Javad Saberian, Kruger / Frédéric Parent, FPInnovations
"Addressing Curl of Paper & Paperboard- Few Case Studies"
Room: Notre-Dame
Session Chair: Dan Davies, Evonik
15:30 "Improving Drying Capacity of PM1", Koowar Singh, Mercer Celgar & Craig Walker, Newberg Turbo Paper Group
16:00 "Port Hawkerbury on a considerable energy savings project for their TMP process", Joe Allen, Port Hawkesbury Paper LP
16:30 "Energy optimization in TMP mills", Hakim Ghezzaz, CanmetENERGY
Room: Crescent
Session Chair: Paul Falardeau, Produits Forestiers Résolu
Transfert des connaissances
Table ronde sur les meilleures pratiques en transfert des connaissances et des apprentissages, et du développement des compétences.
Animatrice: Isabelle Brault, Conseillère gestion du savoir-faire et compétences, Hydro-Québec 
Co-animatrice: Carole Marti, Conseillère en gestion des connaissances, Hydro-Québec
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