Omni Continental Consultants
Nyle has over 25 years of production management experience with Weyerhaeuser and Georgia Pacific as a Production Manager and Paper machine Superintendent. This has included a variety of machine rebuilds and start up of a greenfield dual shoe press gap former as well as being named “paper Machine Superintendent of the Year” by the paper Industry Management Association.
Wayne has over 10 years production management experience including Machine Manager for Scott Paper for both Fourdrinier and Twin Wire machines. Over the past 11 years, Wayne has worked with clients on system design, machine optimization and machine audits.
Boyd Curtis
Boyd has over 40 years in the pulp and
paper industry in a variety of manufacturying management roles including Paper
Mill Superintendent, Paper Mill Manager and Production Manager. During this time Boyd has had direct
manufacturing experience with a wide variety of grades including linerboard,
sack kraft, liquid packaging, fine paper and newsprint.
Lionel Holland
Lionel has spent the past 35 years as a Papermill Chemist and is familiar with every aspect of the interrelationship between papermill chemicals and additives, paper quality and machine operation. He has worked in grades ranging from tissue to fine paper and board, with system chemistries ranging from acid to alkaline, and with furnishes ranging from de-inked to virgin developing control and troubleshooting strategies for various chemical systems.
Ken Larson
Ken has over 40 years in the
pulp and paper industry in a variety of technical and production management
roles including Paper Machine and Mill Manager for a variety of printing paper
operations around North America. In addition Ken served as Voith Fabrics
Western Technical and Applications Manager for 10 years working with clients in
North America, Australia, and South America on a variety of board grades from
Tissue to Linerboard.
Mike McCaw
Mike has over 20 years directly dealing with product
development and optimization for various grades in the industry. For 8 years
Mike was Weyerhaeuser’s refining optimization manager for their white papers
division as well as some of their board operations. For the past 3 years Mike
has been working with Omni Continental clients in refiner evaluation and
optimization projects on a variety of grades from tissue to coated board.
Randy Kimpfbeck
Randy brings over 30 years in the industry with both a
production management background in fine paper as well as an extensive product
development and technical management role with Albany in Europe and North
America. Over the past 3 years Randy has been working with Omni Continental
clients in North America and Asia on a variety of training and process
assignments.
Peter Muijters
Peter has over 20 years management experience in the pulp and paper industry including serving as technical manager and maintenance manager for coated woodfree and LWC operations. Peter has extensive experience in the area of energy management and benchmarking and regularly performs energy audits for client mills in Europe and North America.
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