RPTA’s industry leading science based comprehensive program for food-contact materials produced from recycled fiber.
The Association continues to bring our members educational events and benchmarking studies to support the improvement of recycled mill operations and products.

RPTA’s Annual Production-Technical Seminar was held at TAPPICon on April 27th and 28th in Columbus, Ohio.
RPTA hosted sessions on clay coating, stickies mitigation, paper machine vacuum, and recycled mills’ key environmental issues. We also hosted a panel discussion on government regulations related to packaging and a Roundtable Breakfast where members discussed topics of general interest to recycled mills.
PowerPoint presentations are available to RPTA members here.

Biennially, RPTA conducts a comprehensive benchmarking study on the physical and optical properties of key grades manufactured by RPTA members. The 2025 Profile Study report was distributed on September 1 and is available to members only here. Member samples of containerboard and paperboard from 51 paper machines were included in the Study. The next survey will be 2027

On July 23rd, we will hold a webinar on camara use in the paper industry. Alex Poltorak, General Manager NA for Procemex Inc., will share his knowledge on both current and developing camara technology applications.
Register by clicking here.

We are excited to announce our 2026 Fall Roundtable, hosted by Kruger Inc. It will be held at the Delta hotel in Three Rivers, Quebec, Canada, on October 20th and 21st. Tours will include the Number 10 paper machine at Kruger Trois-Rivières, the Carbon Capture Unit at Kruger Wayagamack, and Innofibre’s pilot facilities (including a paper machine, recycling line, biomaterial process, molded fiber, etc.).
Register by clicking here.

On February 10th, we hosted a webinar on reducing waste to landfill from recycled mills, presented by Serge Gendreau, Andritz.
The webinar recording and PowerPoint deck are available for RPTA members at our members-only site.

On October 15 & 16, we had a fantastic Roundtable \ in Brookfield, WI. It included an interactive seminar on refining, followed the next day with tours of Valmet’s refiner foundry (in Waukesha, WI) and Greif’s Milwaukee, WI paperboard mill. The presentation book is available by clicking here.