Friday, June 7, 2013

Paper Hall of Fame to Add 6

Six new inductees are set to join the hall of fame later this year. The Appleton hall will then have 117 members.
The 2013 inductees, who make up the 19th anniversary class, are:
Walter Brecht (deceased) was a professor in Paper Science and Technology at Technische Universität Darmstadt...Charles N. Egan (deceased) was an entrepreneur, builder, and innovative leader who put together Little Rapids Corporation (LRC)...
Waldemar Jensen (deceased) was a professor at Åbo Akademi University who later became CEO of The Finnish Pulp and Paper Research Institute (KCL)...
Sverker Martin-Löf is one of Sweden’s most renowned industrialists, who has played a key role in a number of Swedish Industries, not least pulp and paper. Martin-Löf is from Stockholm, Sweden...
Sven Axel Rydholm (deceased) was the global authority on pulping processes and pulp qualities of his time.

Theodore H. Wegner has been the Assistant Director at the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory for the past 24 years overseeing an $8-10million per year pulping and papermaking research program...