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Important Documents
2008 Spring Meeting Presentations
- "Trends
in the Engine Oils/Update on the New ILSAC GF-5 Spec"
Speaker: Roy Sambuchino, Marketing Manager Engine Oils, The Lubrizol
Corporation
- "Sustainability
and Environmental Responsibility in Lubricant Packaging"
Speaker: Paul Comey, VP of Environmental Affairs, Green Mountain Coffee
Roasters
- Regs
& Legs Session-"2008 PPC Presidential Caucus"
Speaker: Gregory M. Scott, Esq., Kelley Drye Collier Shannon
- "The
Changing Petrochemical Industry"
Speaker: Kirk Rumsey, VP, Global Purchasing Manager, Rexam Plastic Packaging
- "Electrostatic
Hazards in Packaging Operations"
Speaker: Dr. Vahid Ebadat, CEO, Chilworth Technology, Inc.
- "Voice
of the Customer-The Value of Marketing Through Packaging"
Speaker: John Peters, V.P. of Merchandising, Advance Auto Parts
2007 Fall Meeting Presentations
- Barbara Burger, Chevron Global Lubricants, Keynote
Presentation
Ms. Burger provided an insightful and informative presentation to
an overflow audience at the PPC's General Session with her presentation
entitled: "Packaging Challenges and Opportunities in a Global Supply
Chain.". She explained Chevron's worldwide lubricants business,
assets, and strategies - providing an inside look at one of the world's
largest suppliers of lubricants. Ms. Burger also gave her company's
vision as to the future of the domestic and global lubricants industry,
providing General Session attendees with several "take aways"
and stimulating an active question and answer period.
- Richard Perrier, Petro-Canada, "Emerging
Industry Trends that are Driving the Increased Use of Advanced Group
II and III Base Oils"
Mr. Perrier delivered a presentation entitled "Emerging Industry
Trends That Are Driving the Increased Use of Advanced Group II and III
Base Oils." He provided a primer on "Crude to Lube,"
including the economics and supply issues impacting Group II/III base
oils. Mr. Perrier also highlighted the trends that are increasing uses
of Group II and III base oils in the automotive and industrial markets,
as well as other applications for these base oils.
- Jim Puckace, Global Marketing Manager/Engine Oils, Lubrizol
"Passenger
Car/Heavy Duty Engine Oil Trends: A Five Year Outlook"
Mr. Puckace's presentation, entitled "Passenger Car/Heavy
Duty Engine Oil Trends: A Five Year Outlook," focused on Lubrizol's
vision for the domestic and international light and heavy duty engine
oils industry. He analyzed overall market trends, including macroeconomics,
globalization, emissions restrictions (particularly CO2), fuel economy,
and worldwide supply and demand balance. Mr. Puckace provided his views
on the directions of the global automotive lubricants market and the
forces that will shape that market through the end of the decade.
- Gregory Scott, Esq., Kelley Drye Collier Shannon, "As
Washington Turns-A Regs & Legs Update"
Mr. Scott, the PPC's counsel, lead a session entitled
"As Washington Turns - A Regs and Legs Update." His presentation
focused on the politics impacting federal legislation in 2007 and 2008
and provided an update on federal energy independence/energy efficiency
legislation, federal antifreeze "bittering legislation, minimum
wage issues, and the potential for federal climate change legislation
in the 110th Congress. Mr. Scott also updated attendees on federal rulemakings
of interest to petroleum packagers, including EPA efforts to issue a
rule on CO2 emissions, federal diesel sulfur issues, the proposed adoption
of the United Nations' Global Harmonization System for packaging and
labels by the European Union, and recent EPA changes to the SPCC plans
mandate.
- Jake Garvey, Garvcey Corporation-"Packaging
Automation-Conveyor Design For Increased Production"
Mr. Garvey's presentation, entitled "Packaging Automation-Conveyor
Design for Increased Production," centered on a basic premise -
every packaging line has a constraint and this constraint must be protected
to achieve maximum output. He provided attendees with a methodology
to undertake a six step line analysis to determine where constrains
are in any packaging line. Mr. Garvey also gave insights on how to protect
these constraints through line modifications once they are identified.
- PPC College handouts: Augie Rojas, Nortel, "Business
Improvement Through Six Sigma" & "Own
It"
Mr. Rojas presentation, entitled "A Preview of Six Sigma and
Own It," provided attendees with a "sneak peak" at his
two-day PPC College course on Six Sigma. He walked attendees through
the process of implementing Six Sigma not just for the petroleum packaging
industry, but also for businesses at large. He lively presentation impressed
attendees so much that enrollment in the PPC College course on Six Sigma
tripled immediately after this session.
- Leadership breakfast: Dr. Sunil Erevelles, UNC School of Business,
"Leadership
& Management for the Future" and "The
Future of Business: The Age of Imaginative Intensity"
Anyone still waking up at this special breakfast session
could dispense with any coffee once Professor Erevelles, an energetic
and fascinating speaker, started his talk on "Leadership and Management
for the Future." His presentation centered on the fact that businesses,
and executives at all levels of management, must constantly revolutionize
their thinking, processes, and businesses in order to survive in a "hyper-competitive"
and evolving international marketplace. His fundamental premise: companies
must engage in continuous renewal through non-crisis-driven, non-trivial
change. Professor Erevelles kept his audience both entertained and attentive
with his frequent use of real world case studies to reinforce this basic
premise.
2007 Spring Meeting Presentations
- Operating
Efficiencies through Automation
James Griffin, Letica Corp.
- Alternative
Fuels-Bio-Diesel
Wes Berry, Evergreen Renewables
- Performance-Driven
Packaging, A Laboratory's Perspective
Patricia Garin, TEN-E Packaging Services
- Congress
in 2007: Changes in Control, Changes in Agenda
Gregory Scott, Kelley Drye Collier Shannon
- Supply
Chain Strategies
Dr. John Gordon, Queen's University School of Business
- Critical
Infrastucture & Key Reasource Sectors
Gonzalo Cordova, Protective Security Advisor, Las Vegas, NV District,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
2006 Fall Meeting Presentations
2006 Spring Meeting Presentations
2005 Spring Meeting Presentations
2004 Spring Meeting Presentations
2003 Fall Meeting Presentations
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