Ivan Pikulik | |||
Papermaking research and development | |||
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CURRICULUM VITAE
EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE 2009 – Present IP Consulting Provides consulting to all stakeholders of pulp and paper industry. Past clients include and paper mills and industry suppliers located in Canada, USA, South America and China, government organizations and FPInnovations. Member, Selection Group for Discovery Grant at National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada. Associate editor of The Journal of Science and Technology for Forest Products and Processes. Visiting professor at three universities in China.
Supervised the department with up to 60 members involved with papermaking research and development. Responsible for the initiation of projects, their progress and termination, and for the transfer of new technologies to mills. Extensive contacts with the industrial clients and universities.
Developed a simpler and inexpensive method for the production of high bulk tissue. The laboratory work was performed in house, and by other research organisations; planned and conducted four pilot paper trials in the USA and Europe; identified and tested new machinery, patent considerations. The method was patented, used for a decade by the mill and licensed for use in other mills Europe and Latin America. At one point the licensee fees were about $ 1 million per year.
As sole Canadian representative, managed to complete the construction and started up a pilot plant located in France for the recovery of sulphur dioxide from stack gas. Determined that the reaction kinetics was the reason for incomplete SO2 recovery. In the research centre Hoechst France in Paris developed methods for quantitative analysis of the recovered sulphur dioxide.
Investigate the mechanism of decomposition of unstable industrial chemicals in a leading European institute of technology.
1997 MIT – Sloan School of Mangement, Certificate in Management of Research PUBLICATIONS Authored several patents and more than 80 publications in technical journals and books; gave over 100 conference presentations including some invited plenary lectures and key-note lectures. ORGANISATIONSPAPTAC, past Chairman of Water Removal Committee and of Paper Machine Technology Committee LANGUAGES English, French, German, Russian, Slovak, some Spanish and Chinese PERSONALSlovak origin, studied and spent most of life in Canada. Married, has two adult children. HOBBIESReading, cross-country skiing (seven golden medals from Canadian Ski Marathon), mountain hiking, bicycling, former competitor in running (numerous medals), cross-country skiing, canoeing and kayaking (on gold one silver medal from Canadian Master Competition) now carries sport activities only recreationally.
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