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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: Matt Elhardt, Fisher International

Industry veteran Matt Elliott of Fisher International discusses navigating unprecedented market disruptions in the pulp and paper sector during this premiere Better Together podcast episode. Drawing from 20 years of strategic planning experience, Elliott explores how COVID-19 has reshaped demand patterns, from declining office paper consumption to surging at-home tissue and e-commerce packaging needs. He emphasizes the critical importance of data-driven decision making, scenario planning, and maintaining operational flexibility in capital-intensive manufacturing environments. Elliott also highlights emerging opportunities in sustainable packaging solutions and biomaterials as environmental consciousness drives market transformation, positioning the industry for long-term growth through responsible forest management and circular economy principles.

Better Together: TAPPI Students Leaders

Join TAPPI student leaders Leah from University of Maine and Andrew from NC State as they share their experiences navigating chemical engineering and paper science programs during the pandemic. This Better Together podcast episode explores virtual learning challenges, hands-on lab adaptations, co-op opportunities, and career aspirations in the essential pulp and paper industry. Young professionals will gain insights into TAPPI student chapter involvement, networking strategies, environmental sustainability in manufacturing, and emerging research areas like nanocellulose and Industry 4.0. Perfect for students and early-career professionals seeking mentorship connections and understanding industry career paths in this resilient, technology-driven field.

Better Together: Valmet Project Managers - Success through Resilience

Four Valmet project managers share critical insights on building resilience in pulp and paper operations during COVID-19 disruptions. Learn how mid-career professionals adapted project delivery methods, leveraged remote technology solutions, and maintained customer partnerships when travel restrictions threatened major equipment installations. Discover practical leadership strategies for developing team resilience, implementing augmented reality for troubleshooting, and capitalizing on packaging industry growth opportunities. This episode provides actionable approaches for operations managers and R&D leads to strengthen project execution capabilities while navigating industry transformation and emerging mega trends in sustainable packaging solutions.