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APPTI Project Corrugated Box ModelThe Alliance for Pulp & Paper Technology Innovation has selected an international team led by Miami University to carry out a project, under the direction of Dr. Douglas Coffin, titled Development of a Corrugated Box Model for Time-dependent Load Scenarios. In addition to Miami University, the team includes RISE Research Institutes Of Sweden, Scion and Massey University (New Zealand). The combined experience and expertise of the four international teams of investigators working in close collaboration will result in the development of models and methods for predicting containerboard performance.
In this project, finite element analysis (FEA) strategies and models will be developed that enable simulation of rate-dependent loading of packages. Independent input properties of corrugated board will be measured and boxes tested to verify and validate these models. The results of this project will create the foundation and roadmap to successful advanced engineering design of corrugated packaging. The Alliance for Pulp & Paper Technology Innovation (APPTI), a non-profit organization, exists to identify high priority, pre-competitive technology challenges for the pulp and paper industry and to promote research and development projects to address them. The APPTI Packaging Testing team is focused on the development of more accurate physical test methods and models to enable reduction in manufacturing costs, limit customer product loss, and facilitate the development of higher performing containerboard and converted packaging. Miami University is a public research university in Oxford, Ohio. The university was founded in 1809. Miami University is the second-oldest university in Ohio and the 10th oldest public university in the United States. RISE is Sweden’s research institute and innovation partner. Through international collaboration programs with industry, academia and the public sector, we ensure the competitiveness of the Swedish business community on an international level and contribute to a sustainable society. Scion is a New Zealand government-owned research institute that specializes in research, science and technology development for the forestry, wood product, wood-derived materials, and other biomaterial sectors. www.scionresearch.com Massey University is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. News ArchivesSt Paul, Minnesota, September 20, 2018 The University of Minnesota’s Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (BBE), College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences, hosted the Fall 2018 all-members’ meeting of the Alliance for Pulp & Paper Technology Innovation (APPTI) on its St Paul campus.
Full details are available by clicking on this link Washington, DC, April 11, 2018 The Alliance for Pulp and Paper Technology Innovation (APPTI)—heard from three Federal agencies and several other entities April 11 about news and trends in areas affecting the technology outlook for the United States. It was the first meeting of 2018, and took place in Washington, DC, at the headquarters of the American Forest and Paper Association.
The full details can be found here Knoxville, TN, December 12, 2017--The Alliance for Pulp and Paper Technology Innovation (APPTI) held its all-members meeting December 11 and 12 at the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Washington, DC, September 18, 2017 --Agenda 2020’s fall meeting, held at Western Michigan University’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Kalamazoo, Michigan, highlighted progress in implementing the organizations research roadmaps into funded road trips.
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APPTI Holds Nanocellulose Workshop
Washington, DC, May 8, 2019 The Alliance for Pulp and Paper Technology and Innovation, in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service and the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO), held a workshop Advancing Commercialization of Nanocellulose – Critical Challenges, May 7-8 in Washington, DC,. 66 people from 44 companies, 5 government entities, and 14 universities participated in the event, conducted at the Agriculture Department’s Patriot’s Plaza III.
The two-day session was devoted to determining critical knowledge gaps and research needs which, if overcome, would have the greatest impact on accelerating widespread implementation and commercialization of nanocellulose materials and applications. Further details are found by clicking this link APPTI Holds Packaging Testing WorkshopMadison, WI. June 26, 2019 The Alliance for Pulp and Paper Technology and Innovation, in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service, held a workshop on Improving Test Methods and Performance Models for Containerboard and Converted Packaging on June 25-26, 2019 at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison Wisconsin.
The purpose of the workshop was to bring together board and packaging producers, testing equipment suppliers, and scientists to discuss some of the common problems with today’s board and packaging test methods, define research gaps, and provide the foundation for work to improve testing and performance. The workshop was attended by 24 people including 17 from APPTI companies and partners, plus RISE, ABB, SCION, PCA, and prominent experts/consultants. The priority action items from the workshop include the following:
May, 2017 -- Researchers at Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) and Lawrence Berkeley(link is external) (LBNL) national laboratories are using the national labs' supercomputing capabilities to look at more energy efficient and cost-saving ways to make paper, targeting "wet-pressing".
Get the full article here (link is external) March 23, 2017 —The Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance visited Auburn University’s Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering for its all-members’ meeting.
(Click Here for Full Story) December 9, 2016 -- AIChE's Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) announcement
(Click Here for Full Story) September 8, 2016 -- All-Members’ Meeting Held at NC State
(Click Here for Full Story) August 30, 2016 --Energy Department Funds APPTI (formerly Agenda 2020) sponsored Project to Increase Fiber Yield Washington, DC,
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