Welcome to the 17h annual Pulp and Paper Industry Reliability and Maintenance Conference — the “how-to” conference for people seeking greater reliability at lower cost.

With continuing industry consolidation and a continued weak economy, the pressure to produce more equipment reliability at lower cost is even greater than before. Add continued weak pricing and oversupply in many grades and we clearly see that it’s each mill for themselves. Corporations have no mercy in closing down or idling poor performers who show no plan or initiative to return to an acceptable ROI.

This is a time to act, a time to apply new technologies, ideas, work processes and improvement that produce cost savings and or reliability improvements. Pulp & Paper Reliability and Maintenance conference and Exhibits has a sixteen year tradition of providing such solutions. This is a marketplace for reliability and maintenance solutions for your mill; solutions that you can use in your mill the very next day to increase profits; to do something faster, better or cheaper.

We hope that you like what you see and hear at this conference, but most importantly, what this information inspires and enable you to do. Think about it, if you implement just one of the ideas you get from this event, it will pay for your trip many times over.

Just like you, we are always working to improve. The breadth and depth of our program makes this conference an ideal venue for individuals from all walks of maintenance to find new ideas or solutions that they can apply in their work environments.

More corporations choose to convene one of their quarterly maintenance conferences to this venue to learn together, to combine our program with their own content.

Again, our goal is to become a marketplace for reliability and maintenance solutions for your mill. So round up you colleagues and bring a team to Atlanta, GA October 6-9, 2003. We promise to provide an arsenal of improvement solutions to help make your mill a prosperous victor in the all out cost and reliability war.

Christer Idhammar
Conference Chair

Klick here for information about Pulp and Paper Reliability and Maintenance Conference Atlanta, Georgia, October 18-22, 2004