ASPI Spring 2012 Meeting

ASPI's 2012 Spring Meeting will take place in Naples, Florida on February 8-10, 2012 at the Naples Grande Hotel.  Presentations will be made by:

• John Williams, President and CEO, Domtar
• Jim Rubright, Chairman and CEO, RockTenn
• Tom Lawson, Vice President Operations Paper NA, Sonoco
• Peter Frandina, Accenture
• Stephen Atkinson, BMO
• Jeffery Hayzlett, Bestselling Author, Global Business Celebrity & Sometime Cowboy

View the Program or the brochure. Register on-line or download a registration form.

ASPI Fall 2012 Customer Alignment Meeting with Domtar

Mark your calendars and plan to attend the ASPI Fall Customer Alignment Meeting with customer host Domtar. This meeting is scheduled for September 10-12, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina. More details on the agenda and speakers will be available in 2012.  

Welcome to ASPI! The Association of Suppliers to the Paper Industry (ASPI) is a non-profit association composed of member companies that supply a wide range of differentiated products and/or services to the pulp and paper industry. ASPI is the only association solely focused on providing membership benefits to companies supplying the global pulp and paper industry.

ASPI’s goal is to create a competitive advantage for its member companies--through educational programming, industry advocacy, and networking--that helps them provide unique benefits to their paper industry customers. Read more about ASPI in the ASPI Membership Brochure.

Our member companies are committed to helping their customers navigate the challenges presented by today’s intensely competitive pulp and paper industry. It’s an arena of great risk--and great opportunity--for both producers and suppliers. ASPI membership provides the resources that help member companies “bring their best” to their customers and the pulp and paper industry as a whole.

You’re invited to learn more about ASPI, our industry initiatives, and the outstanding benefits we offer member companies--just click on any of the tabs on the left.

Valuable membership benefits, including:

• Two annual Membership Meetings
  
• Three annual newsletters, which include Members' Forums
  
• Two annual Performance Benchmarking Surveys
  
• Periodic Industry Advocacy Resolutions
  
• Annual Supplier/Customer Best Practices Awards

Shew receives 2011 Excellence in Leadership Award

William M. "Chip" Shew, Mill Manager - Paper, Packaging & Services, was honored for outstanding leadership, at ASPI's Spring 2011 meeting in Manalapan, Florida, February 16-18. He was nominated for this award by ASPI members, who cited his passion for his mill and people, his sound judgment and coolness under fire, and his personal relationships with each of the startup crew and vendors during the recent successful rebuild of PM1 at Greif Packaging's Massillon, Ohio mill.

Pictured at right: William M. "Chip" Shew (left) receives the award for leadership excellence from ASPI President Bob Gallo (President, Voith Paper North America) at ASPI's Spring 2011 Meeting.