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Joachim Workshop

Joachim Workshop. Management of Innovation in the Pulp and Paper Industry Bruce Evans October 20, 2005. Background History of Paper Industry Innovation Food for Thought and Discussion. My Background. B.S. and Ph.D., Paper Chemistry, ESF 1982-89: Research Chemist, Hercules, Inc.

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Joachim Workshop

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  1. Joachim Workshop Management of Innovation in the Pulp and Paper Industry Bruce Evans October 20, 2005 • Background • History of Paper Industry Innovation • Food for Thought and Discussion

  2. My Background • B.S. and Ph.D., Paper Chemistry, ESF • 1982-89: Research Chemist, Hercules, Inc. • 1989-95: Research Chemist, Pfizer/SMI • 1995-2002: Market Development, SMI • 2003: Technical Manager, R&D • Support sales to global paper industry • Manage new filler technology development • Protect SMI Intellectual Property I have “Product” Mentality • find problem • sell solution in drum or tank car

  3. History of Paper Industry Innovation • 105 A.D. Chinese invent papermaking with rags, bamboo • 600-700 Arabs, Italians: water power, wire moulds, screw press • 1300-1400 Germans: Mill concept • 1500-1600 Hollander Beater • 1700-1800 Fourdrinier, Clylinder machines • 1800-1900 Mechanization, GW and Chemical wood pulps • 1900-1950 Electric drive, faster & wider machines

  4. History of Paper Industry Innovation • 1950-1980 New fillers, additives; neutral sizes, retention aids, grade specializaton(LWC), TMP and DIP pulps • 1980-today Gap formers, shoe presses, layered headboxes, tree plantations, microparticle retention systems, satellite PCC What’s Next ? • Biorefinery • Nanotechnology • Fiber-Filler Composite systems • Effective paper coffee cup

  5. Food for Thought & Discussion - 1 • Successful Innovation is more than just new paper technology • It can be: • New business model • Logistical breakthrough • New way to market • Need to have these skill sets in your organization working together effectively

  6. Food for Thought & Discussion - 2 • Paper Industry Needs More and Better ”Open Innovation” • Allow quality ideas to filter into and out of company • We need to: • Have more inter-industry cooperation • Tie into government funding (through academia) • Be able to enhance but protect internal knowledge and technologies (core business strengths) • Aggressively fund breakthrough idea potentials

  7. Food for Thought & Discussion - 3 • To successfully innovate, you need to know your customer • His business • His technology • His strategic goals • His competitors • His customers • Without this, even great ideas will fail or be delayed in execution.

  8. Food for Thought & Discussion - 4 • To successfully innovate, you need to give your most creative employees time to think • Schedule ”non-firefighting” time • Encourage and reward new ideas • Have system in place to develop new ideas • Need critical mass of creative people

  9. Don’t give mixed signals…. • show that you expect innovation • assemble critical mass of right people • furnish them with tools and time

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