Course Calendar

TAPPI has partnered with Matchbox Virtual Media to bring an industry-wide conversation to a virtual platform. The Leadership Virtual Conference will focus on transforming new professionals into leaders and providing managers with practical strategies to cultivate and mentor the next generation. Professionals from around the world can join in on the inclusive online interactive conference.

Learn best practices from IDCON to help you prepare work orders that support reliability and efficiency.

One of TAPPI's highest rated, longest running events! You'll learn ways to improve pulp production efficiency, minimize operating costs and reduce environmental impact. This course is designed for pulp mill operations personnel.

This training event is among the highest rated of all TAPPI courses! Offers introductory- and intermediate-level content covering technology, including “what” happens, and “why” things happen. This course provides the foundation for learning advanced topics more quickly. Learn from one of the most well-known and enthusiastic instructors, Dr. Michael Kocurek.

Co-sponsored by North Carolina State University and TAPPI

This introductory TAPPI course is designed to equip students with the ability to develop, understand, and communicate “common” corrugated language so that they can identify and quickly resolve quality issues on your corrugator.

This introductory-to-intermediate course teaches students how to achieve higher productivity for better product quality and waste reduction. Curriculum describes how each component works, how to run each component with optimum settings for peak performance, and how to identify critical properties of raw materials to ensure quality board.

The TAPPI Introduction to Printing Course delivers a comprehensive, introductory overview of traditional offset and emerging digital technologies, equipment review, color perspective, troubleshooting and more. An optional tour of a printing plant is offered to reinforce the curriculum learned. This training event is co-located with PaperCon 2020 in Atlanta.

This intermediate-to-advanced course will help students to improve tissue quality and consistency, understand contributors to waste and downtime, learn reliability and maintenance best practices and diagnose and troubleshoot problems quickly.

This introductory course is designed to help you build confidence and knowledge of overall paper machine operations. Gain an understanding of the mechanical components and operations of the paper machine that affect the structure and quality of paper, learn to identify design and operation features, and discover methods to improve paper machine efficiency and product quality.