11th Advanced Coating Fundamentals Symposium Interview

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This is the transcript to a podcast I did yesterday to promote the upcoming TAPPI Advanced
Coating Fundamentals Symposium. 

Have you registered yet? If not please do, I want to see you there!

Hello, I’m Craig McKinney from TAPPI and welcome to our podcast about the 11th Advanced Coating Fundamentals Symposium.  I am joined today by Dr. Tony Lyons, Director of Research for IMERYS Pigments for Paper North America.  Tony is the Session Chair for Session 9 - Advanced Understanding of Coating Layer Structures at the Advanced Coating Fundamentals Symposium, which will be held October 11^th through the 13^th in Munich, Germany.

Tony, welcome and thank you for sharing your thoughts with us today! 

 Tony: Hi Craig, I hope you and the listeners to this Podcast are having a great day. It is my pleasure to share with you my thoughts on the upcoming Advanced Coating Fundamentals Symposium. I understand you have a few questions for me. Fire away!

Question 1:

Tony, Why do you think your colleagues should attend this event?

Tony: There is no better technical event on the coating of paper than this one. I have never been disappointed in one of these events and look forward to this one as much as any before. Where else can you interact with all of the leading thinkers and doers in advancing the science and technology of the coating of paper? I can’t think of one, although Papercon comes close. This is the event where there are no holds barred on the sharing of high tech thinking on the subject.

Question 2:

What is significant about this year’s program, Tony?

Tony: Every one of these symposiums has taught me something new about coating paper. This promises to be no different. The materials science of paper will be highlighted by discussions about fold crack, the mechanisms of how binders interact with pigments and the base substrate, and how light will interact with a paper coating. There will be a whole session on the new and exciting high speed curtain coating process. Sustainable and biobased paper chemistries are also a major highlight for me.

Question 3:

Finally, Tony, can you tell our listeners why the 11^th Advanced Coating Fundamentals Symposium is the can’t miss event of the year for the paper coating industry?

Tony: You mean besides the fact that it is in a beautiful area of Germany, that it is in Munich and that PTS has a great facility for these types of events? Why sure!

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If you are looking for a high technical content event where the focus is on paper coating science then this is the event for you. While the usual conference events are tremendous for gaining technical knowledge and networking with a broad cross-section of the paper industry; this event will bring you up close and personal with the very latest in thinking by world class experts from academia and industry on relevant, but highly technical problems. This does not happen every year. There is no waiting ‘til next year. I can’t wait to go and wouldn’t want to wait another two years because I missed this one!

Tony, thank you so much for your time today and for sharing your expertise with us.  We look forward to seeing you all at the 11th Advanced Coating Fundamentals Symposium, taking place October 11^th  through the 13^th  in Munich, Germany.  Visit www.TAPPI.org/10ACF if you would like more information about the symposium including registration and sponsorship opportunities.