This webinar is complimentary for REMADE Members and $99 for Non-Members. Upon registration, non-members will receive instruction on how to complete payment. If payment is not completed before August 12th, 2025 - admission will be denied. When registering, please use your organization's official email address (no @gmail.com, etc.). Thank you!
As part of REMADE’s advanced fibers recycling training program, this webinar provides an overview of the paper recycling processes and technologies including various types of paper that can be recovered and the grades of paper that are manufactured from recycled fibers. It offers discussions on the basic fundamentals and specific details of the paper manufacturing process and paper quality improvement. Some discussions about the major challenges facing the paper recycling industry and new and emerging technologies developments are also included. This webinar includes a live Q&A session.
This course is designed for new engineers and technicians in the pulp and paper and related industries and newcomers to the field of paper recycling.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the overall paper recycling process
- Identify the types of paper which are recycled from the MRFs system
- Identify the grades of paper that can be manufactured from recycled fibers
- Understand the basic fundamentals of papermaking process and the bonding mechanisms in paper
- Understand various contamination removal processes involved in paper manufacturing from recycled fibers
Further Training on Advanced Fibers Recycling FREE to REMADE Members:
- Advanced Fibers Recycling Awareness Level Certificate Course: This six-part short course awareness level certificate focuses on recycling systems, MRFs, markets, manufacturing, fiber properties & physics, printing inks/deinking, stickies and involves a tour of a paper pilot plant.
- Advanced Fibers Recycling Practitioner Level Certificate Course: This six-part short course practitioner level certificate focuses on multiple facets of the paper recycling process. Courses involve value chains, collection, MRFs, markets, manufacturing, technologies, inks/deinking, stickies and more.
- Advanced Fibers Recycling Expert Level Certificate Course: This three-part short course expert level certificate focuses on printing inks and deinking, chemical agents used to improve operation and quality, and stickies/organic materials characterization & removal in the paper recycling process.
Guest Speakers
Dr. Kecheng Li has received his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry & The Pulp and Paper Center at the University of Toronto, and is currently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Paper Engineering at Western Michigan University. Dr. Li has more than 20 years of R&D experience in pulp and paper manufacturing technologies, including paper recycling and paper for packaging materials. His areas of research interest also include biorefining for biofuels, nanocellulose, biochemicals, enzyme technologies for wood and fiber processing and wastewater treatment, and state-of-the-art surface and nanoscale techniques.
Dr. Li’s research has been supported by the REMADE Institute, DOE, MTRAC, Graphic Packaging International (GPI), WestRock, New-Indy Containerboards, Fabri-Kal, Novozymes, and previously by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)-Discovery, -Strategic, -CRD programs, Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF), New Brunswick Innovation Fund (NBIF), MatNet, and by a number of industrial leaders such as Resolute Forest Products, Novozymes, Andritz, West Fraser, Smurfit-Stone Container, UMP-Kymmene, Tembec, Millar Western, and Irving Paper.
Dr. Li and his students have authored 100+ refereed journal papers and book chapters, and delivered numerous conference presentations. He has also developed more than 10 proprietary technologies/disclosures and holds 6 US patents. Dr. Li has been invited by universities and research institutes around the world to give seminars in e.g., Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Japan, Korea, and USA, and by conferences and symposiums to deliver keynote speeches. Dr. Li is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), and has been appointed as an adjunct professor by the University of Waterloo and by the University of New Brunswick. He is also serving on the International Research Management Committee of the Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI).