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Better Together: 2021 SuperCorrExpo LIVE! Part 1

Industry veterans Jan O'Leary interviews four corrugated packaging innovators at Super Core Expo 2021, exploring breakthrough technologies that optimize costs and maximize efficiency. Featured guests discuss Quantum Inc's customer-obsessed ink systems, Mitsubishi's augmented reality training solutions, Tilia Labs' AI-powered production optimization software, and PCA's Dr. Ben Frank shares research insights that earned him the prestigious Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal. This episode delivers advanced technical insights, benchmarking opportunities, and leadership development perspectives essential for mid-career professionals seeking to stay competitive in the evolving corrugated industry while proving ROI to stakeholders.

Better Together: Karen Dillon "Market-Creating Innovation"

Karen Dillon, former Harvard Business Review editor and co-author of The Prosperity Paradox, explores market-creating innovation that transforms struggling communities into thriving economies. Drawing from 30 years of business leadership expertise, Dillon reveals how identifying customer struggles, rather than adding product features, unlocks breakthrough growth opportunities. For mid-career professionals in pulp and paper manufacturing, this approach offers strategies to move beyond efficiency improvements toward game-changing innovations that create entirely new markets. Learn how companies like Intuit revolutionized small business accounting and how sustainability demands present unprecedented innovation opportunities for industry leaders seeking competitive advantages and ROI-driven growth initiatives.

Better Together: Chris Czyryca & TAPPI Standards

Industry veteran Chris Sarica shares how TAPPI standards participation accelerates career development for mid-career professionals in pulp, paper, and packaging. With 26 years leading Collaborative Testing Services, Sarica demonstrates how joining Standard Specific Interest Groups (SSIGs) provides advanced technical insights, peer networking, and leadership opportunities that drive measurable ROI. Learn practical steps to volunteer for standards development, contribute to industry-wide quality assurance protocols, and leverage TAPPI's consensus-based process to solve real laboratory challenges. This episode reveals why standards work serves as a career-long professional development platform, offering benchmarking opportunities and executive visibility that translate directly to advancement in plant operations, R&D leadership, and sales engineering roles.

Better Together: 2026 TAPPICon Live! - Episode 2

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Better Together: 2026 Student Summit

Better Together: Live from 2023 TAPPICon - Episode 1

Join Paper360's Better Together podcast live from TAPPICon 2023 in Atlanta, featuring five industry experts discussing key challenges and opportunities for young professionals in pulp, paper, and tissue manufacturing. Hear from BTG's Jeff Peters on tissue industry growth and digital transformation, Valmet's Alfredo Sali on energy efficiency optimization, Jacobs' Naomi Boulanger on workforce diversity benefits, Polmak's Pat Dixon on converting data into actionable knowledge, and JMC Paper Tech's Yesha Patel on expanding into North American markets. Learn about automation solutions, process control innovations, career development strategies, and networking opportunities that drive technical skill growth and early leadership visibility in the rapidly evolving paper industry.

Better Together: Live from 2023 CorrExpo - Episode 1

Core Expo 2023 delivered cutting-edge corrugated industry insights through interviews with technology leaders from Baldwin Technologies, Sun Automation, and Signode. Mid-career professionals gained advanced technical knowledge on infrared drying systems for multi-color printing, upgraded rotary die cutting for heavier board grades, and automated unitizing solutions with predictive maintenance capabilities. Industry experts shared how digital printing capabilities, sustainable energy reduction technologies, and IoT-enabled equipment monitoring are transforming corrugated manufacturing operations. The episode concluded with rock drummer Mark Schulman's keynote on developing rock star attitudes for enhanced workplace performance, emphasizing engagement strategies and leadership mindset shifts that drive measurable results in plant operations and team management.

Better Together: Bob Chapman, Barry-Wehmiller

Join Bob Chapman, CEO of Barry-Wehmiller, as he reveals how transforming management into leadership drives both human dignity and business success. Chapman shares practical strategies for caring leadership, including empathetic listening, recognition, and service culture that reduced workplace stress while achieving 14% annual share price growth over 25 years. This episode addresses critical industry challenges like employee engagement, talent retention, and the impact of workplace culture on productivity and profitability. Perfect for senior executives seeking proven methods to build thriving organizations where people matter, innovation flourishes, and sustainable growth becomes the natural outcome of genuine care for your workforce.