Paper Conference and Trade Fair
May 4-7 Dallas, TX
Welcome to Dallas
PIMA International Leadership
TAPPI Coating & Graphics Arts
TAPPI Papermakers
Anti-Trust Policy
• Please remember that this session is to be
held in strict compliance with the TAPPI &
PIMA Antitrust Policies.
• Specifically, discussing prices or pricing
policy and discussing any restraint on
competition of any kind will not be tolerated.
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Diamond Sponsors
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Platinum
Gold
Silver
TAPPI Sustaining Members
A. G. Stacker Inc.
A. H. Lundberg Associates Inc.
AbitibiBowater Inc.
Accenture
Acrowood Corporation
Adalis Corporation
Adhesive Mixing Equipment LLC
Air Conveying Corporation
Alliance Machine Sys. Int’l.
Allison Systems Corporation
American Process Group
American Process Inc.
AMGRAPH Packaging, Inc.
Appleton
Aracruz Celulose S.A.
ASD Inc.
AstenJohnson
Automated Conveyor Systems
BE&K
Bearings MFG Co Inc
Bercen Inc.
BHS Corrugated North America
Bobst Group North America
BTG Americas Inc.
Buckman Laboratories Inc.
Cajas Y Bolsas S.A.
Cargill Inc.
Cedar River Paper, A
Weyerhaeuser Business
Celulosa Argentina S. A.
Celulose Nipo-Brasileira S.A.
CEM Machine
Chemical Research Technology
Chemstone
Chemtreat Inc.
Ciba Specialty Chemicals
Copar Corporation
Corn Products Intl. Inc.
Corrugated Gear & Services Inc.
CP Kelco
Crane & Company Inc.
Datalase
Deublin Company
Diamond Power International Inc.
DICAR Inc.
Domtar Industries Inc.
Donahue & Associates Intl. Inc.
Dow Chemical USA
DuPont Soy Polymers
EKA Chemicals Inc.
ERCO Worldwide
Ernest Paper
Essco Inc.
Extrusion Dies Industries LLC
FM Global
Fosber America Inc.
George M. Martin Company
Goss International Americas Inc.
Grain Processing Corporation
Graphic Sciences
Great Western Industries
Harris Group Inc.
TAPPI Sustaining Members (continued)
Hercules Paper Technologies and
Ventures
Hindustan Paper Corporation Ltd.
HYDAC International
IDM Instruments
IGT Testing Systems
IMERYS
Innovia Films Inc.
Integrated Engineers Inc.
International Paper
INX International Ink Company
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
Jansen Combustion & Boiler Tech. Inc.
Jari Celulose S.A.
JSC Solikamskbumprom
Kadant Inc.
Kemira
Konrad Corporation
Kop-Flex Inc.
KSH Solutions Inc.
Lachenmeier Inc.
Leo Paper Group
Lignol Energy Corporation
Longview Fibre Paper and
Packaging Inc.
Lorentzen & Wettre USA Inc.
MacDermid Printing Solutions LLC
MarquipWardUnited
MeadWestvaco Research
Metro Containers Inc.
Metso Paper
Metso Power
Michelman
Mid-Atlantic Packaging
Mihaud International Group
Millennium Chemicals
Miller Mechanical Services Inc.
Milliken Coated Products
Miquel Y Costas & Miquel S.A.
Mississippi Lime Company
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America
Moraine Partners LLC d/b/a
MorStarch
Neucel Specialty Cellulose
Norske Skog Paper Mills (Australia)
Noss Company
OJI Paper Company Ltd.
Olin Chlor Alkali Products
OMYA Inc.
Orange County Container Group
Oy Keskuslaboratorio KCL
OYKA Paper & Packaging Inc.
Pacific Southwest Container
Panther Systems NW Inc.
Penford Products Company
Pira International
Poyry (Appleton) LLC
PT. Aspex Kumbong
R&D Center, Hansol Paper
Rock Tenn Company (2 Sustaining
Memberships)
Samuel Strapping Systems
Sappi Ltd.
Sauer System
SCG Paper Public Company Limited
Scion
Senapathy Whiteley Ltd.
SGS S.A.
Siegling America LLC
SNF SAS
Solvay Chemicals
Specialty Minerals Inc.
Stowe Woodward/Mount Hope
SUN Automation Group
TABER Industries
Tamil Nadu Newsprint & Papers Ltd.
Tate & Lyle
Technidyne Corporation
Terdeca CMG Group Inc
Testing Machines Inc.
Thermo Scientific
Thiele Kaolin Company
Tritex Co.
Tronox LLC
TurboSonic Inc.
V.I.B. Systems Inc.
Valco Cincinnati Inc.
Visy Industries Centre
Voith Paper
Votorantim Celulose E Papel
Waste Management Corporation
Weyerhaeuser Company
Zamma Corporation
Zenith Cutter Company
Publications
The flagship
publications
of TAPPI & PIMA
Publications
PaperCon ’08
Conference Daily
Trade Fair Exhibitors
•3C Software
•3M
•ABB
•Alco Chemical
•AMETEK Land Instruments
•ASD Inc.
•BASF
•Bearings Mfg. Co.
•Breakthrough Management Group
•BTG
•Buckman Laboratories
•CiDRA
•Cognex
•Comer/OMC
•Core Link Inc.
•CPBIS-Georgia Tech
•Deublin Company
•Donaldson
•Event Capture Systems Inc.
•Greycon Inc.
•Hercules
•Huber
•Imerys
•Kemira
•Kohler Coating
•Linde, Inc.
•Lorentzen & Wettre
•Metso
•Nalco
•Newark PaperBoard
•Omya
•Optest Equipment
•Pacific Int'l.
•Panther Systems
Paper360
Paperchine
•Philadelphia Mixing Products
•ProFlow
•RISI
•Rochester Inst. Of Tech
•Shell Lubricants
•SKF
•Techpap Inc.
•University of Maine
•Utility Optimization Group
•Viconsys
•Vishay Systems
•Voith Paper
•Waste Management Upstream
•Watson-Marlow Bredel
Nanotechnology ~ Opportunities
and/ or Threats
PaperCon ’08
Dallas, Texas
May 6, 2008
Nanotechnology ~
Opportunities and/ or Threats
Session Moderator ~ Dr. Jacquie McNutt ~ Executive
Director ~ CPBIS, President Degrees of Excellence &
Senior Executive Consultant, The Sinclair Group
• Key areas of focus ~
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Industry Transformation, Global Forest Products,
Bioenergy, Climate Change, New Materials, Cross
Industry Issues, Sustainability, Innovation, and
Change Management & Corp Strategy
• Dept Head, Univ of Washington College of Forest
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Resources & Researcher, Oregon State Univ
Senior Line/ Staff positions ~ Potlatch, CCA, Smurfit,
& GP
President/ CEO, Jaakko Poyry Consulting, NA
Senior Advisor/ Head, Board of Advisors, Forestweb
Boards of Directors ~ PIMA, CPBIS, & World Forestry
Center
Joined CPBIS in 2000
BS, Industrial Eng, Univ of Wyoming, joint MBA/MS,
Managerial Sciences & Forestry & Ph.D., Forest
Managerial Science, Oregon State Univ
Nanotechnology ~
Opportunities and/ or Threats
This Session Explores Current Perspectives
on The Nanotechnology Arena With
Regard to ~
 Products
& Product Formation/
Development ~ Dr. Art Ragauskas, IPST
 Governmental Policy Perspective ~ Dr.
Chris Risbrudt, USFS Forest Products Lab
 Production Issues & Industry’s Perspective
And Needs Looking Out ~ Dr. Phil Jones,
Imerys Pigments
The Context
• Nanoscale Materials Often Exhibit Novel
Properties Wherein ~
 They
offer great potential for development
of entirely new generations of wood-based
products and materials ~ as well as ~
 New approaches and processes for
producing such materials
The Context
• However ~ Nanotechnology Is Still Widely
Misunderstood By Many Leaders And Managers
And Most Production Workers Throughout Our
Domestic Industry ~ And In A Way Is ~
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Often perceived domestically as a sort of
unrealized “voodoo magic” ~ wherein ~
 Nanotechnology’s potential to impact and
reshape core parts of our domestic industry & its
value proposition across time is not ~
 Well
understood
 Fully appreciated
 Properly accepted, nor
 Effectively supported . . .
The Context
• Yet ~
 Key
other global players are not sitting
back and waiting for this “nano-voodoo
magic” to do its own thing . . .
 Consequently ~ major global players such
as the Chinese are actively pursuing a
decided applied set of Nanotechnology
policies and associated developments . . .
 Which will impact our industry and society
in the years ahead one way or the other ~
with us or without us . . .
The Context
• Consequently ~ Without A Better
Understanding Of The True Applied
Potentials For Nanoscale Materials ~
 Our
domestic industry is potentially
placing its future value proposition at
risk by ~
 Ceding this evolving turf to offshore
players across time . . .
Our Intent
• So ~ Our Intent Here Today Is To Seek To
Advance A Pragmatic Enhanced
Understanding of Nanotechnology’s

Opportunities and/ or
 Threats
 With regard to our domestic forest products
industry . . .
 To help secure a better placement of
nanoscale materials in our domestic
industrial agenda . . .
Products & Product
Formation/ Development
Dr. Art Ragauskas ~ Professor ~ Institute of
Paper Science & Technology
• Research Interests ~
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Green chemistry of biopolymers
including ~ cellulose, hemicellulose, and
lignin ~ to include new ways to synthesis
novel biomaterials, biocomposites, and
biofuels from nature's renewable
biopolymers including new nanocellulose and hemicellulose based
materials for smart-polymers, controlled
release, and enhanced barrier properties
for health care, packaging, and security
applications
• Fulbright Distinguished Chair in
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Alternative Energy, Fellow, International
Academy of Wood Science & TAPPI
BS & Ph.D., Univ Western Ontario,
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Univ
Alberta & Univ Colorado, & NRC Research
Associate
Governmental Policy
Perspective
Dr. Chris Risbrudt ~ Director ~ US Forest
Service Forest Products Laboratory
• Key Focuses ~
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Developing the forest biorefinery,
Nanotechnology, Advanced housing
systems and concepts, Improved
engineered wood products and composites,
& Use of wood in non-residential
construction
• Federal Laboratory Consortium for
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Technology Transfer (FLC) Laboratory
Director of The Year ~ 2004
Joined the USFS in 1978
BS, Univ of Minnesota & and Masters, Forest
Administration & Ph.D., Forest Economics,
Univ of Michigan
Production Issues & Industry’s
Perspective And Needs Looking Out
Dr. Phil Jones ~ Director ~ Technical
Marketing & New Ventures, Imerys
Pigments
• Co Chair, Agenda 2020 Nanotechnology
subcommittee, member, Consultative
Board for Advancing Nanotechnology
(CBAN) in the Forest Products Industry
that interfaces with Government Agencies
through the National Nanotechnology
Initiative
• Member, NSF visiting committee ~ Nanofabrication Center, Penn State Univ &
TAPPI Fellow
• Boards of Directors ~ National NanoManufacturing Center, Empire State
Research Associates, IPST & TAPPI
• Vice Chair, Board of Advisors, CPBIS
• Joined Imerys (English China Clays) ~
1975
• BS, Physics, King’s College, Univ of
London & and Ph.D., Physics, Univ of
London
Questions & Discussion
Nanotechnology ~ Opportunities
and/ or Threats
Dr. Jacquie McNutt
Dr. Art Ragauskas
Dr. Chris Risbrudt
Dr. Phil Jones
Thanks . . .