History and Mission
History
Since its founding in 1992, the Paper International Hall of Fame (PIHF) has honored and recognized 135 giants in the paper industry from around the world whose accomplishments have truly revolutionized civilization. A plaque bearing each inductee's likeness and a video highlighting the contributions of each of them to the paper industry are permanently housed at the PIHF, which is the only one of its kind in the world and was created to foster a greater understanding of the paper industry - its values, heritage and its influence on our quality of life.
The idea of a Hall of Fame for the paper industry came about when a group of current and former paper industry executives in Wisconsin's Fox River Valley met to discuss how the importance of paper, and particularly some of the giants of the industry, could be recognized. They especially felt that the industry deserved recognition as the corner-stone of the Valley's economy and that of the world as well.
In 1992, formal meetings were held with the Neenah Historical Society in Neenah, Wisconsin, USA, to develop the concept and format for the Paper International Hall of Fame, Inc., which was formally registered with the Bureau of Patents and Trademarks in Washington, D.C., USA, in 1993.
Annual ceremonies for inducting individuals to the Paper International Hall of Fame began in 1995 with six honorees. In 1999, the Paper International Hall of Fame, Inc. was offered Kimberly-Clark Corporation's former Atlas Mill in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA, to serve as its home. Its size also provided the opportunity to adequately tell the story of paper. A portion of the renovated Atlas Mill opened in February of 2005 as the Paper Discovery Center, a paper-related science and technology museum. Inside is housed the Paper International Hall of Fame which honors the esteemed paper industry honorees.
Today the Paper International Hall of Fame, Inc., a non-profit organization, continues to recognize people who have made preeminent contributions to the paper industry worldwide by inducting them into the Paper International Hall of Fame. It also oversees the operation of the Paper Discovery Center. Its location in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA, is due to the Fox River, which has the greatest concentration of paper mills in the world. Wisconsin also ranks number one in paper making in the United States.
2018 Hall of Fame
Induction Dinner
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Red Lions Paper Valley Hotel - 333 West College Avenue • Appleton, Wisconsin
5:30 PM Cocktails and Hors d'oeuvres Reception
6:30 PM Dinner
8:00 PM Induction Ceremony
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Inductee Luigi Lazzareschi of Sofidel, Lazzareschi will speak on emerging markets in the industry.
2018 INDUCTEES
Richard Kerekes – Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Kerekes was selected for his Academic and Research and Development accomplishments within the paper industry.
Luigi Lazzareschi – CEO and co-owner of Sofidel in Lucca, Italy. Lazzareschi was selected for his Entrepreneur and Leadership skills within a niche market that has shown tremendous growth.
Heikki Peltola – Senior Vice President, retired of UPM-Kymmene Corporation, Helsinki, Finland. Peltola was selected for his Technology skills in the paper field.
Liisa Viikaria – Professor Emeriti, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Viikaria was selected for her Academic and Research and Development skills, especially for her efforts to transfer results of her research to paper mill operations.
The organization annually recognizes people who have made preeminent contributions to the paper industry worldwide by inducting them into the Paper International Hall of Fame.
Inductees
Paper Industry International Hall of Fame Inductees
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Johannes Van den Akker (1904 - 1999) Emeritus Professor, Physics (The Institute of Paper Chemistry) United States
Lewis Miller Alexander (1856 - 1934) President (Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company (Nepco)) United States
Arne J.A. Asplund (1903 - 1993) Founder, Research & Development, Chairman (Defibrator AB) Sweden
Douglas Atack (1923 - 2007) Vice President (PAPRICAN) Canada
Joseph Atchison (1914 - ) President and Owner (Joseph E Atchison Consultants, IC) United States
Brian Attwood (1927 - ) Owner and Director (St. Anne’s Paper and Paperboard Developments, Ltd.) United Kingdom
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Havilah Babcock (1837 - 1905) Co-Founder (Kimberly-Clark Corporation) United States
Stephen Baisch (1917 - 2011) Founder and President (S.J. Baisch Associates Inc.) United States
Laxmi Niwas Bangur (1949 - ) Chairman (Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Ltd.) India
John Seaman Bates (1888 - 1991) Founder, Technical Section (CPPA) Co-Founder (Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada) Canada
Ernst Richard Behrend (1896 - 1940) Founder / Entrepreneur / Marketing (Hammermill Paper Company) United States
Nathan Bergstrom (1895 - 1981) Chairman of the Board (Bergstrom Paper Company) United States
Oscar Boldt (1924 - ) Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (The Boldt Group, Inc.) United States
David A. Bossen (1927 - 2015) Chairman, Founder (Measurex Corporation) United States
Charles Boyd (1871 - 1952) Founder and Chairman (The Appleton Coated Paper Company) United States
Walter Brecht (1900 - 1986) Academic/Research & Development (Technische Universitat Darmstadt) Germany
Tad Bretting (1936 - 2003) President and CEO (C.G. Bretting Manufacturing Company, Inc.) United States
D.K. Brown (1886 - 1974) Founder and Leadership (Neenah Paper) United States
Robert C Buchanan (1940 - ) Non-Executive Chairman (Fox River Paper Company) United States
William Buchanan (1903 - 1993) Chairman of the Board (Albany International) United States
Stanley Buckman (1908 - 1978) Founder (Buckman Laboratories, Inc.) United States
Thomas Busch (1923 - 1999) Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (Appleton Papers, Inc.) United States
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Chester Floyd Carlson (1906 - 1968) Inventor / Leadership / R&D / Technology (Xerox Corporation) United States
Hugh Chisholm (1847 - 1912) Founder (International Paper Company) Founder (Oxford Paper Company) United States
Charles Clark (1844 - 1891) Founder and Manager of Operations (Kimberly-Clark Corporation) United States
Austin Cofrin (1883 - 1980) Founder (Fort Howard Corporation) United States
Edwin Cowles (1892 - 1968) Founder and Owner (Cowles Chemical Company) Founder and Owner (Cowles Engineering Corporation) United States
Harry T Cullinan (1938 - ) Director (Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering) Professor, ChE Department (Auburn University) United States
D
Stark Dillard (1894 - 1975) Founder (Dillard Paper Company) United States
Norm Dove (1941 - ) Chairman and Founder (Devron Engineering Ltd.) Canada
Hardev S. (Doug) Dugal (1937 - ) Academic, Founder, Leadership, Research & Development (Integrated Paper Services, Inc.) United States
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Kari Ebeling (1940 - 2012) Professor (Helsinki University of Technology) Director R&D (UPM-Kymmene Corp.) Finland
Charles N. Egan (1910 - 1977) Entrepreneur/ Builder/ Leadership (Little Rapids Corporation) United States
D.C. Everest (1882 - 1955) President and Chairman of the Board (Marathon Corporation) United States
F
Robert Flowerree (1921 - 2006) Chairman of the Board (Georgia-Pacific Corporation) United States
Henry Frambach (1840 - 1921) United States
G
Thomas A. Gardner (1926 - ) President & CEO (Gardner Systems Corp.) United States
William Markley Gilbert (1852 - 1926) Co-founder, President (Gilbert Paper Company) United States
David A. I. Goring (1920 - ) Vice-President, Scientific & Academic (Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada) Canada
Lothar Göttsching (1936 - ) Professor (Technische Universitat Darmstadt) Germany
Thomas Grace (1938 - ) President and Founder (T.M. Grace Company, Inc.) United States
Arnold E Grummer (1923 - 2012) Greg Markim, Inc. (Service / Entrepreneur / Education) United States
Johan Erik Gullichsen (1936 - ) Chairman (Ahlstrom Corporation) CEO (Arhippainen, Gullichsen & Co.) Finland
Johann Gutenberg (1398 - 1498) Germany
H
Robert W Hagemeyer (1925 - 2001) Manager Special Projects (J.M. Huber Company) Coating Consultant (Industry) United States
Brenton Halsey (1927 - ) Founder/ Entrepreneur/ Leadership (James River Corporation) United States
Charles Holmes Herty (1867 - 1938) Director of Research for Pulp and Paper (Savannah Pulp and Paper Laboratory (now The Herty Foundation)) United States
John Hinman (1885 - 1981) Chairman (International Paper Company) United States
Bjarne Holmbom (1943 - ) Professor Forest Products Chemistry (Åbo Akademi University) Finland
Dard Hunter (1883 - 1966) Historian, Papermaker and Printer (Mountain House Press) United States
I
Marja-Sisko Ilvessalo-Pfaffli (1916 - 2013) Research & Development (KCL (Finish Pulp and Paper Research Institute)) Finland
J
Georg Jayme (1899 - 1979) Academic / Research & Development (Institute of Cellulose Chemistry) Germany
Waldemar Jensen (1915 - 2009) Academic/ Leadership/ Research & Development (Finnish Pulp and Paper Research Institute (KCL)) Finland
Curt G. Joa (1903 - 1998) Founder and President (Curt G. Joa, Inc.) United States
Fred Herbolzheimer Jr. (1921 - ) President (Thilmany Pulp & Paper Company) United States
Edgar J. Justus (1903 - 1993) Vice President, Corporate Research & Development (Beloit Corporation) United States
K
Matti Kankaanpää (1927 - ) Chairman & CEO (Valmet Corporation (now Metso)) Finland
Friedrich Gottlob Keller (1816 - 1895) Germany
Jack Keller (1918 - 2007) Founder and Chairman (J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc) United States
William Kellett (1899 - 1997) President (Kimberly-Clark Corporation) United States
Theodore Clifford Kennedy (1930 - 2012) Founder, CEO and Chairman (retired) (BE&K Inc.) United States
Martin Keyes (1850 - 1914) Founder (Keyes Fiber) United States
John Kimberly (1838 - 1928) Co-Founder and President (Kimberly-Clark Corporation) United States
Charles P. Klass (1940 - ) President (Klass Associates) United States
Margaret E Knight (1838 - 1914) Co-Founder (Eastern Paper Bag Company) United States
Michael J Kocurek (1943 - ) Professor and Department Head, Department of Wood and Paper Science (North Carolina State University) United States
James F. Kress (1929 - ) Chairman (Green Bay Packaging Inc.) United States
George Kress (1903 - 1997) Founder (Green Bay Packaging Inc.) United States
Milos Krofta (1912 - 2002) Founder and Chairman of the Board (Krofta Engineering Corporation) United States
Morris Kuchenbecker (1928 - ) Senior Package Design Engineer (James River Corporation) United States
Eduard Küsters (1905 - 1987) Founder (Eduard Küsters Maschinenfabrik) Germany
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Karl F Landegger (1905 - 1976) President (Parsons & Wittemore Inc.) United States
Carl C. Landegger (1930 - ) (Black Clawson Company and Associated Companies) United States
Jong Dae Lee (1933 - ) President and CEO (YuHan-Kimberly, Limited) South Korea
Harry F. Lewis (1891 - 1969) Vice President and Dean (The Institute of Paper Chemistry) United States
Barbaravan Van Lierop (1948 - ) Principal Scientist in the Chemical Pulping Program (Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada) Canada
Sverker Martin Lof (1943 - ) Leadership (Industrivarden, SCA and SSAB) Sweden
Erling Sven Lorentzen (1923 - ) Entrepreneur / Leadership (Aracruz Celulosa S/A) Brazil
Cai Lun (50 - 121) (Han Dynasty) China
M
Ernst Mahler (1887 - 1967) Chemist, Executive Vice President (Kimberly-Clark Corporation) United States
Jasper Mardon (1921 - 1997) Canada
John McGovern (1907 - 1995) Research Scientist (United States Department of Agriculture) Research Scientist (Forest Products Laboratory) United States
George Mead (1927 - ) Chairman of the Board (Consolidated Papers, Inc.) United States
George P Mueller (1921 - 2008) President (Wisconsin Tissue Mills) United States
Raymond B Mundt (1928 - ) Chairman and CEO (Alco Standard Corporation) United States
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Philip Nethercut (1912 - 2006) Executive Director & Board Vice Chairman (Technical Association of the Pulp & Paper Industry) United States
O
Elis Olsson (1880 - 1949) Founder and Chairman (Chesapeake Corporation) United States
Herbert Ortner (1932 - 2013) Senior Vice President (Integrated Paper Mill Projects) Senior Vice President (Voith Paper Holding GmbH & Co.) Germany
P
Derek H. Page (1929 - 2017) Principal Scientist and Research Director (PAPRICAN) Canada
Joseph Parker (1928 - 1972) Associate Director of Research (Beloit Corporation) United States
Hannu Viljami Paulapuro (1947 - ) Academic / Research & Development (Aalto University) Finland
Irwin A. Pearl (1913 - 2014) (Institute of Paper Chemistry) United States
Jori Eino Pesonen (1925 - ) President and CEO (Valmet (Metso)) Finland
Joseph Plank (1881 - 1949) Founder (J. J. Plank Co.) United States
Jaakko Pöyry (1924 - 2006) Founder and Chairman (Jaakko Pöyry Group Consulting Engineers) Finland
Richard Pratt (1934 - 2009) Chairman (Visy Industries) Australia
Bruce Barton Purdy (1917 - 2009) Vice President (Appleton Wire Works) Director (Albany International Corp.) United States
R
W. Howard Rapson (1912 - 1997) Professor of Chemical Engineering (University of Toronto) Canada
Douglas William Reeve (1945 - ) Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry (University of Toronto) Canada
John P Reeve (1912 - 2005) President and CEO (Appleton Papers, Inc.) United States
Johan Richter (1901 - 1997) Chief Executive Officer (Kamyr AB) Norway
William Rittenhouse (1644 - 1708) Founder (Rittenhouse Paper Mill) United States
Louis-Nicolas Robert (1761 - 1828) France
Alf de Ruvo (1938 - 2000) Executive Vice President (Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA)) Sweden
Sven Axel Rydholm (1923 - 1977) Academic, Research & Development (Billerud AB) Sweden
Niilo Erik Ryti (1919 - 1998) Professor Emeritus (Helsinki University of Technology) Finland
S
Reinhardt Sabee (1914 - 2005) Founder (The R. Sabee Company) United States
Lawrence Sanford (1925 - ) Associate Director, Research & Development (The Procter & Gamble Company) United States
Thomas Schmidt (1939 - ) President (Wisconsin Paper Council) United States
Richard Scudder (1913 - 2012) Founder, President, and Chairman (Garden State Paper Company) United States
Frank Sensenbrenner (1864 - 1952) President and Chief Executive Officer (Kimberly-Clark Corporation) United States
Thomas Simons ( - ) President, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (H.A. Simons, Ltd.) Canada
Hari Shankar Singhania (1932 - 2013) Chairman (JK Paper Ltd.) India
Darwin E Smith (1926 - 1995) Chairman and CEO (Kimberly-Clark Corporation) United States
Gary A Smook (1934 - ) Principal Instructor, Pulp & Paper, Unit Operations (British Columbia Institute of Technology) Canada
Börje Steenberg (1912 - 2015) Professor Emeritus Paper Technology (Royal Institute of Technology) Sweden
John Frambach Stoveken (1841 - 1921) Founder / Entrepreneur / Leadership (Badger Paper Company) United States
John Strange (1911 - 1992) President (The Institute of Paper Chemistry) United States
Lars G Sundblad (1923 - ) President and CEO (AB Iggesunds Bruk Company) Sweden
John Swanson (1917 - 2004) Director, Division of Natural Materials and Systems (Institute of Paper Chemistry) United States
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George Herbert Tomlinson (1880 - 1958) Inventor / Innovator/ R & D (Howard Smith Paper Company) Canada
Honghi Tran (1951 - ) Frank Dottori Professor of Pulp & Paper Engineering, Director of Pulp & Paper Center (University of Toronto) Canada
V
György Vámos (1912 - 2002) Founder and Director (Hungarian Paper and Cellulose Research Institute) Hungary
Johann Matthaeus Voith (1803 - 1874) Founder (J.M. Voith Company) Germany
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Douglas Wahren (1934 - 2011) Owner (The Profit Professor) Sweden
Juuso Walden (1907 - 1972) President and CEO (United Paper Mills) Finland
Rudolf Walden (1878 - 1946) Founder, Chairman & CEO (deceased) (United Paper Mills) Finland
Theodore H Wegner (1945 - ) Research & Development (USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory) United States
Albert Bernard Weissenborn (1863 - 1938) Founder (Appleton Wire Works) United States
George Weyerhaeuser (1926 - ) Chairman of the Board (Weyerhaeuser Company) United States
Roy Whitney (1913 - 2005) Vice President, Academic Affairs and Dean (The Institute of Paper Chemistry) United States
Averill John Wiley (1911 - 2001) Technical Director (Sulphite Pulp Manufacture's League (Later part of the Institute of Paper Chemistry)) United States
Robert Williams (1930 - ) Co-Founder (James River Corporation) Chairman Emeritus (Fort James Corporation) United States
Richard P Wollenberg (1915 - 2014) Chairman Emeritus (Longview Fibre Company) United States
Peter Wrist (1927 - ) President and Chief Executive Officer (Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada) Canada
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Wang Zhen (1271 - 1368) China