PIMA/APPTI Decarbonization Investigations Webinar Series - AI

Series Schedule

November 19, 2024 – AI; Pat Dixon

Hear from Pat Dixon at Pulmac discuss using AI, and the decarbonization pathway through automation.

Speaker: Pat Dixon

Pat Dixon is VP & GM of Instrumentation & Automation for Pulmac Systems.  He is based near Austin, Texas.  He graduated from Miami University in 1987 with a degree in paper science and engineering.  Approximately half of his career in industrial automation has been in the paper industry.  He has focused on advanced control and data analytics solutions, and is a professional engineer and certified professional project manager.

Moderator: Christopher O. Luettgen, Ph.D.

Executive Director and CEO
Alliance for Pulp & Paper Technology Innovation

Professor of the Practice                      
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
College of Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Strategic Initiative Lead, Pulp, Paper, Packaging and Tissue, Renewable Bioproducts Institute, an Interdisciplinary Research Institute at GT

Director, GT Pulp and Paper Engineering Undergraduate Certificate Program and Foundation

In April 2023, Luettgen became the Executive Director of APPTI, a consortium based association with the mission to promote the development of advanced manufacturing technologies for the P&P industry.

He has 25 plus years of industry experience, with Scott Paper and Kimberly-Clark Corp., where he most recently served as head of North American Innovation for the Professional business sector. He has held positions in product development and innovation, capital project management and manufacturing facility leadership.

Luettgen has served on the Georgia Tech Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) Industry Board of Advisors, and as the Chairman of the Board of the Technical Association of the Pulp & Paper Industry (TAPPI) and is a TAPPI Fellow.  He earned his BS degree in Paper Engineering at Western Michigan University (’85), his MS degree at the Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, WI (’87), and his PhD at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology - now RBI (’91).

He rejoined GT in November 2014 as a Professor of the Practice in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Associate Director of Pulp, Paper, at RBI. He also serves as the Director of the undergraduate Pulp and Paper Certificate Program, Endowment and Foundation.