TAPPI and the Recycled Paperboard Technical Association (RPTA) announced today that RPTA will locate its annual Production-Technical (P-T) Seminar at TAPPI’s PaperCon 2011 on May 2-3, 2011, in Covington, Ky., USA, near Cincinnati.

“Co-locating our event with PaperCon will allow RPTA members more educational and networking opportunities,” said Deborah White, executive director of RPTA. “We are very excited to hold our conference at TAPPI’s world-class event.”

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Authors interested in presenting a paper should upload their extended abstract to TAPPI’s Speaker Management System by March 9, 2011. Abstracts should be 1-2 paragraphs in length. Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 15, 2011 and must provide a full text manuscript by July 15, 2011.

For more information please contact: Craig McKinney, TAPPI Program Manager, cmckinney@tappi.org or Direct: 770-209-7294.

Sessions on sustainability, the environment, and biorefineries drew large crowds at the 2010 TAPPI PEERS Conference and the 9th Research Forum on Recycling held October 17-21 in Norfolk, Va. More than 370 forest and paper industry professionals participated in the four-day conference which included a special Boiler MACT Town Hall Meeting. Attendees represented over 30 paper companies and 20 universities from around the world. The exhibit hall showcased the latest technologies available to the marketplace from 23 companies.

The Boiler MACT Town Hall and Committee meetings drew high attendance in anticipation of the upcoming US EPA announcement regarding new emission limits. Timothy Hunt of the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) cited estimates that the proposed new limits could cost the paper industry $4.5 billion and jeopardize as many as 72,000 jobs. Discussions centered on how the industry should react to the new limits. Among Hunt’s suggestions for key fixes was one that the limits be based on overall performance of actual sources. This is a departure from a mythical boiler and basing standards on the best performing 12 percent of sources, not “best of the best.”

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“Down to Earth” focused on environmental issues in the paper and printing industries. IP describes the site as follows:

“Down to Earth covers topical issues in a thought-provoking manner that helps to dispel some of these myths and misconceptions. By educating those inside our industries, we can help customers and end users better understand these complex environmental issues and the steps that the forest products and printing industries are taking to become more sustainable and make positive contributions to our world.”