ASPI Spring 2010 Meeting Dates and Venue Set!

ASPI Spring 2010 Meeting
The Inn on Fifth
Old Naples, Florida
February 18-19, 2010

Registration is now open for the ASPI Spring 2010 meeting in Florida.

ASPI travels back to Florida in 2010. Connect with your peers and learn from industry experts at the ASPI 2010 Spring Meeting. Confirmed speakers include:

• Mike Edwards – Senior Vice-President, Pulp and Paper Manufacturing, Domtar
• Stephen Atkinson – Managing Director–Paper & Forest Products, BMO Capital Markets
• Paul Leclair – VP and Chief Economist, Pulp and Paper Products Council
• Butch Johnson – CEO, Flambeau River BioFuels
• J. Patrick (Pat) Maley III – President, COO, Director, Temple-Inland
• Tim Mescon – President, Columbus State University (motivational/management speaker)

ASPI’s Spring Meeting Program provides a unique forum for attendees to meet and interact with other executives who share many of the same paper industry challenges and opportunities. Networking opportunities within ASPI's diverse membership is often cited as the Association's most important benefit. ASPI’s Spring Program includes presentations from customers, industry analysts, technology experts and management professional. Check the ASPI website for updates on speakers in the coming weeks.

Mark your calendar now to attend the ASPI 2010 Spring Meeting! View the meeting program. Register on-line or complete the registration form and fax to ASPI. View for spouse registration.

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.

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

ASPI has named Verso Paper Corp.’s President and CEO Mike Jackson as its 2009 ASPI Customer Executive of the Year. Jackson was presented his award in January. Read the full press release.

Pictured left to right: ASPI Vice President Bob Gallo (President – Voith Paper North America); Customer Executive of the Year recipient Mike Jackson, President and CEO of Verso Paper Corp.; ASPI President David Withers (President – Coldwater Group), and ASPI Board of Director Member Rod Fisher (President – Fisher International).