We have been talking about moving this column to the Light Green Machine Institute website. Still not quite ready to do this. However, in the meantime, we have be promoting invovlvement through our LinkedIn page, not surprisngly, named Light Green Machine Institute. Just since January 1, 2024, we have had the following people join this page...

Heidi Cook, Process Engineer, Billerud

Jim Harrison, Technical Manger, Greif

Parker Landellier

Jennifer Johnson

Steward Gibson, Propreitor, Forest Industry Manufacturing

Stephen Bussa, Area Manager, Axchem

Mike Grover, General Manager, Greif, Milwaukee

Luc Pelletier, Vice President, Operations, Cascades

Thomas Demey, Sales Manager, Nihot Recycling Technology

David Reimer, Applications Engineer, Kadant Black Clawson

Ryan Wantz, Business Development, Pulp & Paper

Scott Bennett, Owner, Multipli Machine, Inc.

Chris Luettgen, Alliance for Paper Technology Innovation, Professor of the Practice and Assciate Director, Georgia Institute of Technology

Bill Hagan, Paperboard Product Development

Alicia Gist, Environmental Manager, Essity Professional Hygiene, North America

Jeff Lacombe, Service Operations Manager, ABB, Inc.

Andrew Lamber, Vice President Corporate Accounts, Nalco Water, An Ecolab Company

Ed Draper, Executive Director, Washington Pulp and Paper Foundation

Bertil Stromberg, Bertil Stromberg Consulting, Inc.

Terry Dixon, Paper Industry Professional

Richard Thomas, Manufacturing Manager, Graphic Packaging International, LLC

Paige Goff, VP Sustainability, Strategci Partnerships & Engagement, Domtar

David Turpin, Decarbonization Pathways Advisor Paper Sector

Gabriel Nathan Nicola Mombach, Business Development Manager

Robert Cumbee, Hargrove Engineering

Steve Henry, President, Paper & Packaging, Domtar

Dave Garner, District Sales Manager, Solenis

Francesca Apruzzese, Technical Director, Canfor Pulp

Chad Toth, Operatinal Specialist Stock Prep and Mechanical Pulp, Catalyst Paper, a Paper Excellence Company

Ronald Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Consultant & Thought Leader in Sustainable Fiber-Based Consumer Goods

John Baker, Domestic and International Business Entrepreneur

Joel Berg, Principal, Structural Resource Lead, Structural Engineer at Baisch Engineering

Ben Childs, Engineer

Woody Huguley, Manufacturing Manager at Graphic Packaging International, LLC

Stefan Schreiner, Vice President, Global Product Mangement

Jason Spuhler, General Manager, Greif, Inc.

Craig Faling, Project Manager, Hargrove Engineers & Constructors

Jason Giffen, Mill Manager & Lean Manufacturing Disciple

Ian Benore, Quality and Product Development Manger, Greif, Inc.

Hector Rios Quintana, General Manager, Valmet

Vincent Roy, Technbical Sales Director, Andritz Machinery--Tissue

Bob Peck, Techncial Sales for Multipli Machine

Alla Simonova, Account Manager, Technical Sales, Sonoco Paper Division

Steve Hightower, Valmet PUL

Jim Truax, Paper Mill General Manager

McLeod Barber, Specialist, Transportation Planner, GPI

Randy Riddell, Reliability Manager, Essity Tissue

Neil Euliano, Planner & Scheduling Advisor

Evan Ericson, Technical Expert, Voith Paper

Jim Kicklighter, Manufacturing Senior Manager

Gary Rudemioller, Executive Director, Miami University Paper Science and Engineering Foundation

Georg Hadl, \Director, Business Development, Andritz

Andrew Chorney, Technical Services Manager, Essity Professional Hygiene North America

Welcome to all!

If you are not on this page, perhaps it is time to join it.

Of special note...

In a few months, we will be moving this column to the Light Green Machine Institute website. There is not much there right now, but you might as well get signed up and start thinking about moving over there. It is at www.lightgreenmachine.institute.