COATING COURSE SCHEDULE

DAY ONE: Monday July 29

Fetzer Center, Welborn Hall, and CEAS
8:00 am Registration Open
8:30 am Introductions Margaret Joyce, WMU
8:40 am Review of Coated Grades Chuck Klass, Klass Associates
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Current and Future Trends Chuck Klass
11:00 am Overview of Printing Processes Margaret Joyce
Noon Lunch
1:00 pm Print Demands on Coated Papers Dave Smith, Lithometrics
2:00 pm Tour Gravure and Flexo Pilot Plant
2:15 pm Break
2:45 pm Travel to Parkview Engineering College
3:00 pm Tour Offset Print Lab


DAY TWO: Tuesday July 30
Parkview Campus, CEAS
8:30 am Blade, Rod Coating and Contour Coating Chuck Klass
9:45 am Break
10:00 am Pond and Metered Size Press Chuck Klass
10:45 am Drying Jim Rennes, Global
Technologies
Noon Lunch
1:00 pm Calendering Mark Sorenson, Andritz
Kusters
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm On-line Coating Measurement Andy Broomfield, ABB
4:00 Test Equipment Demonstration
6:30 pm Group Dinner


DAY THREE: Wednesday July 31
Parkview Campus, CEAS
8:00 am Pigments Bruce Nelson, Omya
9:30 am Break
9:45 am Synthetic Binders Don Vantresca, Styron
11:00 am Natural Binders TBD
Noon Lunch
1:00 pm
2:00 pm
PVA and Biopolymers
Additives and Coating Make down
Steven Bloembergen, EcoSynthetix
Gordon Bugg,, Akzo Nobel
3:30 pm Wrap-up