{"598764":{"#nid":"598764","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Expert Panel Addresses State of the Industry Session at TAPPI PEERS","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EThe annual State of the Industry session at TAPPI\u0026rsquo;s PEERS Conference this year featured five expert panelists discussing Collaborating to Advance Manufacturing Technology. The panel explored a decline in R\u0026amp;D for technology advancement and potential implications, as well as opportunities for innovation and other subjects.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EPanelists included: Bob Feeser, president-Consumer Products, WestRock; Dirk Krouskop, president-National Council for Air \u0026amp; Stream Improvement Inc.; Norman Marsolan, executive director-Renewable Bioproducts Institute, Georgia Tech; Alan Rudie, assistant director-Forest Products Lab, U.S. Forest Service; and Bertil Stromberg, VP-BioRefinery, Fiber, and Chemical Division, Andritz Inc. The event occurred Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, in Norfolk, Va., USA.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.naylornetwork.com\/ppi-otw\/articles\/index-v2.asp?aid=470953\u0026amp;issueID=50711\u0022\u003ERead the entire article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Panelists discussed \u0022Collaborating to Advance Manufacturing Technology\u0022"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2017-11-14 15:16:32","changed_gmt":"2017-11-14 17:20:33","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"598763":{"id":"598763","type":"image","title":"Norman Marsolan, second from left, participates in PEERS panel","body":null,"created":"1510672253","gmt_created":"2017-11-14 15:10:53","changed":"1510672253","gmt_changed":"2017-11-14 15:10:53","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228263","name":"11-5-17 Panel P\u0026P industry.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11-5-17%20Panel%20P%26P%20industry.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11-5-17%20Panel%20P%26P%20industry.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":116914,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/11-5-17%20Panel%20P%26P%20industry.jpg?itok=1jp9rH5i"}}},"media_ids":["598763"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B Smith, 404-894-5301\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}