State and Future of Pulp and Paper Industry on the Agenda at UMaine this Week
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — High-level speakers representing the pulp and paper industry and large consumers of its products will be at the University of Maine on Thursday April 15 and Friday April 16 for the UMaine Pulp and Paper Foundation’s annual open house. UMaine chemical engineering and civil engineering students will also be very involved in the program, serving as discussion panelists and presenting information about their research.
Highlights of the open house include the following:
“Achieving the Forest, Wood and Paper Industry Technology Agenda in the United States,” a student/industry panel discussion scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday in Neville Hall. The discussion will be moderated by Louis J. Boos, president of Nordic Engineering. The guest speaker will be Delmar R. Raymond, director of strategic energy alternatives for the Wyerhauser company. UMaine students Michael Chasse, Matthew Kilbourn, Marilyn Nichols, Cari Powers, Kathleen Trinward and Ryan Wadsworth will serve as panelists.
“Publishing Business Trends,” a talk by Soma Coulibaly, vice president of Houghton Mifflin Procurement at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, also in Neville Hall.
A dinner and series of presentations is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday at Wells Conference Center. Speakers will include Lee M. Bingham, senior vice president of SCA North America LLC and John A. Luke, Jr., the chair and chief executive officer of Mead/Westvaco, who will discuss “The Future of Forest and Paper Products.” The 2005 Honor Award and Endowed Scholarship Funds will also be presented during the dinner event.
On Friday, from 10 a.m.-noon, an open house breakfast seminar is scheduled for Neville Hall, featuring a talk, “Reflections on the Diversification of Stock Market Risk in 2004” by Prof. Robert Strong of the Maine Business School at UMaine. At the same time, in the Jenness Hall Laboratory, UMaine chemical engineering graduate students will make poster presentations on their research.