Leadership and Governance
RPTA Board of Trustees
The affairs of the Recycled Paperboard Technical Association are managed by a Board of Trustees representing member companies. Eight members meet regularly during the year to set policy, oversee special projects, and determine the annual dues and budget.
Officers of the Board of Trustees are:
President
Joe Michaud
Greif, Inc.Vice President
Cathy Foley
Pratt Industries, Inc.Ex-Officio
Paul Schutes
Executive Director, RPTA
LATEST NEWS
2023 Industry Profile Study
The 2023 Industry Profile Study has been published and is available at this member-only page. The study included a range of grades produced on 65 paper machines at 47 RPTA-member mills.
Narrow Roll Safety Guideline
Available at this web page.
Summer 2023 Webinar
On July 20th we held a webinar on Treatment Technologies for Wastewater Reuse, presented by Brown and Caldwell Engineering. Webinar slides and recording are available to RPTA members only at this web page.
2023 RPTA Fall Roundtable
The annual member-only Roundtable this year covered New Paper Mill Technology. It included presentations by Voith and Valmet and a tour of the new paper mill operations at Graphic Packaging International’s Kalamazoo Mill. Seminar slides are available at this member-only page.
UPCOMING EVENTS
2024 Winter Webinar
The webinar will be on in-line freeness control with details to follow.
2024 Production-Technical Seminar
Our next P-T Seminar will be on April 29 and 30, at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland, co-located with TAPPICon 2024. Session topics are:
- Safer Operations
- Process Monitoring
- Multiply Machine Operations
- New Packaging Developments