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LATEST NEWS
Industry Benchmarking Survey
We have kicked off the 2025 Profile Study. Member company must register their paper machines into Survey by January 17th and RPTA Staff must receive the samples by April 4, 2025. Past Survey reports can be accessed at this member-only page.
2024 Fall Roundtable
On October 16 and 17, we held our highly-rated RPTA Fall Roundtable on Paper Machine Roll Design and Operation, in Appleton, Wisconsin. The slides from our four-hour technical seminar on various types of rolls and press optimization are available at this RPTA members only site, along with materials from other past RPTA educational events. The Roundtable also included tours of two Andritz roll facilities.
UPCOMING EVENTS
2025 Winter Webinar
Register for this January 22nd webinar on Recovered Fiber Grades & Quality at THIS LINK.
Shawn State, President of Pratt Recycling at Pratt Industries, will discuss recovered fiber grades and quality trends. He will be followed by Pat McEnroe, Product Group Director at Kadant Black Clawson, who will discuss process strategies to deal with contaminants in recovered fiber sources.
2025 Production-Technical Seminar
The event is May 4-7, 2025, at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
This year, the RPTA Seminar will be integrated into the larger TAPPICon Conference. RPTA members will register for the event through RPTA, not through TAPPICon. RPTA members’ registration will include all TAPPICon sessions and events, at a substantial savings. (Registration details will follow as we get closer to the event.)
RPTA has recruited presentations on topics of current interest to our members: Safer Operations, Product Strength Improvement Methods; and Waste Reduction.
In addition, RPTA will host a two-hour mini-course on paper machine wet end chemistry, by a well-respected expert. We will host our member lunch and our member breakfast discussion roundtable. In addition, RPTA will host a room in the convention center where our members can relax, network with other RPTA members, and learn more about the RPTA organization.