Pulp and Paper Manufacturing Expert, Including Recycling and Chemical Safety

Technical Consultant #95

Pulp and Paper Manufacturing: wood pulp (bleached and unbleached, kraft, sulfite, groundwood and deinked fibers), cotton fiber pulp and various grades of paper.
Extensible Paper: Installation and operation of machinery to make extensible paper by the process formerly known as the CLUPAK process.
Paper mill environmental management.
Paper recycling.
Specialty paper product development.
Paper mill chemical safety.
Paper production and safety training.

Expert Witness Experience

Rendered opinions and testimony preparation in a patent infringement case involving the lazar slitting of carbonless forms.

Independent Consultant and Educator, 2001 - Present

Administered general science, chemistry and mathematics classes to high school students.

Undisclosed Company Belen, NM, Consultant, 1996 - 2000

Principal and owner of a company providing technology, information and technical services to paper companies foreign and domestic.
The emphasis was on service to manufacturers of extensible paper.
Provided start-up services for new and relocated used equipment.

Clupak Co., Inc., New York, NY; Technical Manager and Service Engineer, 1993 - 1995

A company that provided technology for making extensible paper (primarily for sack paper).
Information and technical services were provided to licensees, foreign and domestic.
Mill visits were made to assist licensees in production efficiency and maintenance of quality.

Esleeck Manufacturing Company, Turners Falls, MA, Consultant, 1987 - 1993

Worked independently as a technical consultant for this small paper company that manufactured specialty papers. Some products were made of cotton fiber.
Emphasis on providing services to paper mills.
Served clients in a variety of industries:
- Programs to reduce effluent discharges.
- Feasibility studies.
- Evaluation of solid waste for potential hazardous materials.
- Set up SARA sec. 313 and OSHA hazard communication programs.
- Waste minimization.
- Employee training and generation of training materials.

Corporate Technical Director, 1979 - 1987

The unique expertise of the company was the manufacture of light weight papers and papers with unusually low opacity.
Oversaw the technical efforts of the company:
- Quality control.
- Product development.
- Environmental management including administration of the NPDES discharge permit.
- Managed the hazardous waste program.
- Provided safety training to employees.

The Georgia-Pacific Corporation Mill, Gary, IN, Technical Director, 1974 - 1979

Produced paper toweling completely from secondary fiber including ground wood pulp that had been deinked.
Served as a technical consultant to a sister mill that made tissue paper.
Provided technical oversight of the mill's operations:
- Troubleshooting.
- Quality control and quality assurance of incoming raw materials.
- Specified and ordered chemicals.
- Environmental management of the mill.
- Treatment plant operator of record.

Nekoosa Edwards Paper Company, Port Edwards, WI, Senior Research Scientist

Ran several mills that made printing and writing grades of paper.
Worked in the Research Department, with research group focused on process control.
Applied chemical, engineering, mathematics and computer skills to projects related to control of papermaking processes:
- Development of on line instruments to measure and control optical properties of paper.
- A feasibility study that determined that a proposed method of controlling kraft digesters was worth pursuing.
- This included laboratory studies that essentially replicated functions of the process control computer.

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