Martti Y. O. Kangas, Dipl. Eng., PE
Atlanta GA, USA, Tel:
+1-770-934-0189 Fax: +1-678-388 9191
e-mail: kangas.m@comcast.net
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Mr. Kangas is an independent process engineering and business consultant based in Atlanta, GA (USA), and Principal of ICN, Independent Consulting Network for the Pulp and Paper Industry. He enjoys in applying new technologies in paper manufacturing. He holds several patents in new spray technology for paper coating, sizing and filling, and washing de-inking.
Since 1978 he has also worked as a senior engineering and business consultant for Jaakko Poyry, Simons-Eastern, and Ekono. His specialties include mill and paper, board and pulping lines' competitive analysis, paper machine operating improvement activities, manufacturing, recycling, and mill energy conservation. In Finland he acted as machine superintended in mills manufacturing newsprint, SC- and coated papers, boards and pulp. As the Technical Director of Kerayskuitu Oy, a joint venture of the Finnish paper industry, he created together with owners, built and operated an advanced de-inking system for unsorted mixed household waste paper. Curiosity led him to see the global pulp and paper industry first hand to improve their operations and economic performance. In addition, he is Executive VP in Dryad Technology Inc., intending to commercialize spray technology as a new alternative for paper and board making, filling, sizing and coating.
Education
Helsinki University of Technology
(HUT) -71, M.Sc., Paper Technology.
Languages: Finnish, English, Swedish, German, some technical Portuguese.
Consulting Experience
1978 to present: Abitibi-Price, Augusta Newsprint, USA - Appleton Papers, Carbonless Paper, Appleton, USA - AF&PA, Status of US Industry, USA - Alabama River Newsprint, USA - Bankers Trust, Due Diligence, USA - Bechtel Corporation, De-Inked Pulp Mill, USA - Bonneville Power Administration, Pulp and Paper Industry Energy Use, USA - Bowater, Millinocket and East Millinocket Mills, Directory, Newsprint and Coated Specialties, USA, Orinoco Mill, Newsprint, Venezuela - Celulose Argentina, Capitan Bermudez and Zarate Mills, Free Sheet and Specialties, Argentina - Champion International, Bucksport and Lufkin Mills, Newsprint and Coated Paper, USA - CityForest Corporation, Tissue Mill, Ladysmith,WI - Cons. Bathurst, Three Rivers, Newsprint, Canada - Container Corporation, Jacksonville, Linerboard, USA - Crown Vantage Paper Corporation and James River Corporation: St. Francisville, Port Huron, Berlin/Burges, and Parchment Mills, Coated Paper, Specialties and Pulp, USA - Crown Vantage Shareholder Group, Coated Paper, Specialties, Pulp, USA - Domtar, Canada, Free Sheet, USA, Wall Board – Dryad Technology, Inc., Confidential, USA - E.B. Eddy, Pulp, Specialty Paper, Canada - EPRI, Energy use in the industry, USA - Eurocan, Liner, Bag Paper, Canada - Fraser Paper, Specialties, Canada and USA - Garden State Paper, NJ and a Mill, Newsprint, USA - Georgia-Pacific, Bellingham Mill, Tissue, Pulp, USA - Government of Alberta, Mechanical Pulp Mill, Canada - Government of Nigeria, Chemical Pulp Mill, Nigeria - Government of Queensland, Newsprint Mill, Australia – International Paper, Coating, Pulp, Confidential, USA - J.D. Irving Ltd., St. John, Tissue and Paper, Canada, USA - Jari Celulose, Jari, Pulp, Brasil - Klabin Group' Bacell, Correia Pinto, Riocell, and Monte Alegre Mills, Various Paper and Board Grades and Pulps, Brasil - Kimberly-Clark, Coosa Pines Mill, Newsprint and Pulp, USA - Kruger Inc, Trois Rivers and Corner Brook Mills, Newsprint, Canada - Lake Superior Industries, Duluth Mill, SCA, USA - Mead, VA and MA Mills, Specialties, USA - Metsä-Serla, Target Company Analysis, Finland - Mississippi River Corp, Natchez, DIP Mill, USA - JP Morgan, Due Diligence, USA - Oji, US Industry Analysis, Japan - Orient Paper Company, Free Sheet and Pulp, India - Pacific Power and Light, Target Company Analysis, USA - Pisa, Papel de Imprensa: Jaguariaiva, Newsprint, Brasil - Pope & Talbot, Pulp, USA - Portland General Electric, Target Company Analysis, USA - Prudential Capital, Due Diligency, USA - Publishers Paper, Oregon City, Newberg, Newsprint, USA – Riverwood, West-Monroe, Confidential, USA- Santa Terezinha, Tissue, Brasil - Skeena Pulp Mill, Pulp, Canada - Southern Company, Targeted Energy Use, USA - St. Laurent, West Point Mill, Liner, Medium and Pulp, USA - South-East Paper, Dublin, Newsprint, USA - Tasman Pulp and Paper, Newsprint, Directory, Free Sheet, New Zealand - Temple-Eastex, Texarcana, Liner, Coated Specilaties, USA - Toronto Dominion Bank, Due Dilgency, Canada - Weyerhaeuser, Columbus, Everet, New Bern and Tacoma, Various Paper Grades, Pulp, USA - Willamette, Albany, Liner, Medium, USA - a multitude of small assignments.
Mill Experience
1974 to 1978, Project Manger, CTO, Paperinkerays Oy, Kerayskuitu Oy De-Inking Plant, Finland: Assigned to manage a project for Paperinkerays Oy to develop a process suitable for unsorted domestic (household) recycled paper re-use in newsprint, low grade SC paper, board, and tissue manufacturing. As CTO of the new company, Kerayskuitu Oy., he developed together with the Finnish industry the leading edge technology. He implemented a novelty management concept between the owners, labor unions and mill operators.
1973-74, Machine Superintendent, Myllykoski Paper Mill, Finland: PM 7, making SC-paper.
1970-73, Project Manager, Machine Superintendent, Veitsiluoto Paper Mill, Finland: Started as a project manager to convert PM 2 from newsprint to SC paper. Trained the operators for this new product. Installed one of the first computerized moisture profiling systems in the world to PM 2. Managed the development of a mill wide reporting system integrating and computerizing the material flows and accounting. Was promoted to superintendent for PM 2. Participated to start-up of the new newsprint machine PM 5. Experimented with high pressure spray filling and treatment of SC paper.
Affiliations
EPRI Pulp and Paper Advisory Council, 1992- 2000.
NSPE,1983-
TAPPI, 1979-
Finnish Paper Engineers' Association, 1976-
Publications
US, and international
patents and several pending, covering paper coating, sizing, fiber fractionation, de-inking.
Paperi ja Puu – Paper and Timber, 2001: "Dryad Technology -
Implementing spraying technology in paper and board manufactuting" Vol 83/ No.
7/2001. .
IETC 1997, Houston, TX.: "Road map to capitalization of power generating facilities.”
ABTCP annual meetings, Brazil;1995:
"Tools for Strategic Service Analysis: Neural Nets; 1994: Strategic Investment
in Pulp and Paper Industry."
APPITA,1995:
"Pulping Technologies For The 21st Century - A North American View, Part One -
Industry and Trends Overview."
AIChe 1994, Spring Annual Meeting, Atlanta:
"Strategic Impact of environmentalism and environmental regulations on the U.S.
Pulp and Paper Industry."
EPRI Industry Briefs, 1994: "Pulp Mills"; "Paper and Board Mills"; "Free Sheet Converting";
"Corrugated and Solid Fiber Box Converting"; "Tissue Converting"
EPRI report 1993: RP-3328-06: "Paper Recycling: Impact on
Electricity-Use, Electrotechnology Opportunities."
Paperi ja Puu, The magazine of Finnish Forest Industries, 1976: "Keräyskuitu-projektin toteuttamisesta” (Implementation of
Recycled Fiber Market Pulp Mill Project).