Technical Program
8:00am – 9:30am
Session 1 – Unique Coating Considerations
- 8:00am - Investigating the self assembly of lignin-siloxane co-oligomers to develop amphiphobic paper coatings
- Kalavathy Rajan
- 8:30am - Enhancing Surface and Barrier Properties of Paper and Packaging Materials Through Mechanical Modifications and Biobased Coating Applications
- Aakash Upadhyay
- 9:00am - Novel plant-based metallization coating creates the world's first paper microwave susceptor packaging
- Jonathan Levine
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10:00am – 12:00pm
Session 2 – Barrier Coating Concepts
- 10:00am - Comparision of the application of polysaccharide-based barrier coatings on paper and board via fimpress and spray coating
- Wolfgang Bauer
- 10:30am - Modifications, Characterization, and Applications of Nanocellulose to Enhance Barrier Performance of Packaging Materials
- Munmun Basak
- 11:00am - Sustainable Oxygen Barrier Coatings for Paper based on Anionic and Cationic Cellulose-Derived Materials
- Jonathan Rhone
- 11:30am - Roll-To-Roll Processing of Paper-Based Packaging Materials Using Cellulose Nanocrystals and Chitosan
- Samuel Fagbemi
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12:00pm - 2:00pm - Fellows Luncheon
12:00- 1:30pm
Symposium Luncheon
1:30pm-3:00pm - Session Keynote Speaker - Relevant Technology
- Translating Scientific Knowledge into Practical Industrial Applications: Scaling up and scaling down trials
- Behudin Mesic
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2:30pm – 4:00pm
Session 3 – Important Barrier Coating Considerations
- 2:30pm - Water-Based Adhestive Penetration Into Paperboard and Coating Paperboard
- Douglas Bousfield
- 3:00pm - Modified hemicelluloses as stabilizers for talc slurries for paper coating applications
- Tapani Nick
- 3:30pm - Heat sealing of barrier coated papers
- Douglas Bousfield
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4:00pm
Closing Remarks