Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering Provides Training Opportunity to Paper Mill Engineers

Auburn University's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering (12/12/24) McAdory, Joe

Experts from Auburn University’s Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering (AC-PABE) recently provided 11 paper mill engineers and operation staff with two days of hands-on workshops and lectures. Guests from Georgia-Pacific's Alabama River Cellulose facility, a paper manufacturing plant in Monroe County, were given an overview of the pulp and paper industry, chip-handling, and more. "Not all engineers and operation staff at paper mills had comprehensive undergraduate pulp and paper curriculums like we offer here at Auburn University,” states Zhihua Jiang, AC-PABE director. "We thought it would be a good idea to share some of the education and training we offer our students – providing them with some of the fundamentals that they might not have received, or even serve as a refresher from what they had already learned." Attendees learned everything from kraft pulping to bleaching to the properties and testing of pulp and paper. Alabama River Cellulose Disciplined Operations Leader Whitley Daniel remarks, "This inaugural program will open the door for future partnerships with Georgia-Pacific which underscores our shared commitment to advancing industry knowledge and innovation."

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