Webinar: Opportunities for Pulp Products with Enhanced Properties
19 July 2011
Tools and techniques for the modification of fibres are proliferating. But what are the opportunities and which have the most commercial potential?
Technical developments make a wide range of product attributes possible:
- Durable products - substitutes for molded plastic
- Uniform products - for printed circuitry or other precision applications
- Stronger products - in substitution for non-renewable materials
- 'Intelligent' products - diagnostics, material separation and purification (eg rare earth metals)
- Recyclable products
- Surface finish - 'haptics', customer acceptance
- Lower energy cost in making existing products
But what does the market want? Listen to Smithers Pira Pulp and Paper Chief Consultant Nigel Jopson explore this and many other questions at this expert briefing.
Nigel is Chief Consultant for paper and board activities at Smithers Pira and has over 20 years' experience in paper product development. He has headed multi and single client research into sheet forming, pressing and drying, surface treatment coating and corrugating. As well as contributing to Smithers Pira Strategic Futures programmes, he has given conference papers on coating and surface treatment on both sides of the Atlantic
Held on 19 July 2011, the webinar reviewed:
- Defining the market
- Defining the product atributes - function, mechanical properties, aesthetics and haptics
- Emulation not imitation - lessons from our forbears, what was done and why, the folly of imitating plastics
- Renewability - the wider palatte of materials
- Enabling technologies - borrowing from other sectors
- Recyclability - re-use or energy generation?
- Wider implications - economy, industry and society