2015 TAPPI Corrugated Box and Linerboard Medium Manufacturing Course
 
Jon Porter, Senior Trainer/ Process Specialist for Fosber America 

Jon Porter has 30 years of Technical Training experience, designing, building, and delivering technical training in several different media formats for stand-up, group-lock step, and self-paced programs with an emphasis on adult learning. Jon serves as a Senior Instructor/Process specialist for Fosber America for the last 15 years. Current position responsibilities include; safety, training for machine installations, documentation, conducts both field and factory schools on Corrugator Equipment and Process.

Process examples include Corrugator 101, Bonding, Warp TS, Operator Quality Tests, Process Controls. He is a TAPPI member and serves on the Standards committee, and is one of the lead instructors for the TAPPI courses which include:
• Best Practices on the Corrugator
• LinerBoard & Medium Manufacture
• Advanced Bonding 


Gerry Ring

Gerry Ring is Professor Emeritus of Paper Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In 1980 Ring began his professional career as a Research Scientist for Kimberly-Clark Corporation after obtaining his Ph.D. at the Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton Wisconsin. In 1986, Ring joined the faculty of UWSP and chaired the program from 2003 till 2013. He has written 15 publications, including editing the Colloid Chemistry of Papermaking Materials textbook.

He holds four patents and was recognized in the 1994, 2000 and 2004 editions of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. Dr. Ring is also listed in the 2015 Marquis Who’s Who in America. Ring received an Award for Excellence from the University Continuing Education Association, Region IV in 1999. Dr. Ring is a TAPPI Fellow, and a recipient of Tappi Journal’s Best Research Paper for 2011. Dr. Ring’s research is in the area of paper physics emphasizing hydrogen bonding and sheet formation.