MOTAG – SOUTH

SUMMER 2003

“Changes”

TAPPI - Fibre and Raw Material Supply Committee

Summer 2003, Atlanta GA

DATE & PLACE:

MOTAG South ,Thursday and Friday, August 7^th and 8^th , 2003,

Thursday August 7^th, 2003

8:30 - 9:15 Welcome Address “Mergers, Downsizing, Slow Economic Conditions, & Making The Best Of Change” by Ginny Silver Rizzo, Facility Director, Corporate Research Center, International Paper, Tuxedo, NY.

9:15 - 9:45 Questions and Answers Bill Fuller

10:00 – 11:00 Woodyard Profile “Then and Now, Smurfit Stone’s Newly Acquired Mill at Stevenson, Alabama!” by Gerald Thurmond, Smurfit Stone, Stevenson, Alabama.

11:00 – 12:00 “From Dumper To Hog – Bigger Is Better” by Joe Blackman, BE&K Engineering, Birmingham, AL and Phil Colter, Cahaba, Birmingham, AL.

1:15- 2:00 “Chipper Maintenance” by Iradj Tarassoli, Progress Industries, Trussville, AL

2:00 – 3:00 Woodyard Profile “A World Of Change, But Essentially Still The Same” by Mitcheal Barnes, International Paper, Franklin, VA

3:15 – 4:00 “What’s New In Woodyard Chains” by Kevin McLaughlin, Esco Corp. Roswell, GA.

Friday August 8^th, 2003

8:30 – 9:15 “Debarking Drum Maintenance – A Planned Process” by John Mann, Andritz Inc. Industrial Welding, Ventura, CA

9:15 – 10:00 “Wear Materials In the Woodyard Now and Beyond”, by Grant Murphy, Tricon Metals and Services, Birmingham, Alabama.

10:00 – 11:00 Woodyard Profile – “Fulghum’s Brewton Mill, A High Production Facility.” by John Bradley, H.T. Fulghum, and Paul Foy, Fulghum Fibres, Brewton Alabama.