Klaus Gissing

With more than 40 years of experience Klaus is well known for his expertise in the tissue industry. Born in Graz he soon started looking for challenges and „big adventures“, starting his career that the global player „Andritz AG“.  During his first years at Andritz he worked in the engineering department, getting to know the machinery in detail and by heart. This knowledge and experience formed the basis for the next 30 years – being globally active in the tissue, air and energy business, strongly involved in strategic decisions and project planning.

ERWIN BRUNNMAIR

Erwin has more than 35 years of experience with direct- and indirect drying of fibers and sludge. In addition, he has an impressive knowledge about the thermal treatment of minerals. Born in Upper Austria, he „had to“ start his career at Austria‘s largest industrial company, the VOEST Alpine. Then he worked at a large plant manufacturer in Graz, first in the paper drying department, later in the area of sludge drying and burning. He was in charge of the technology as well as of the commercial side. In parallel he extensively worked as a consultant for drying concepts for the wood industry. Last but not least he worked for another plant manufacturer, leading the works for thermal treatment of minerals and developing this business field to a successful business unit. Today, Erwin shares his knowledge and experience with his students and is devoted to his personal area of concern, the sustainability.

Helmut Germek

Right after his enginnering studies Helmut started his career in the department for measurement and control systems at the Andritz Group. He soon realized that it needs a deep process knowledge to enable efficient and fast control. His credo was and is: „No control without detailed process understanding“. Helmut was involved in nearly any process automation activity (including start-up and optimization) in the paper and pulpy industry (stock preparation for recycled fiber or market pulp, paper, board or tissue machines).

Peter Komari

Based on his broad range of experience with customer support, and a profound understanding of the infrastructure and environment of large-scale paper and board mills, Peter delivers solutions that ensure an optimum level of performance and energy efficiency of the machine- and building related ventilation systems. Peters serves as a partner for the paper industry who is working with already existing and potential new customers. He previously held the positions of a CTO and was co-owner of a plant engineering company in the paper industry. Latest R&D projects focus on the reduction of specific C02 emissions of pulp and paper mills.

Andreas Meyer

Andreas started his professional career as a paper engineer in 1982 in a pulp mill. He was born near Dresden and got to know the Saxon paper industry very early on. After 7 years in the pulp business, he switched to the tissue industry in 1989 and signed a contract with VP Schickedanz (Tempo) in Nürnberg. In 1994 Procter & Gamble took over the Schickedanz paper business. Until 2001, Andreas held various positions in the German plants (Plant Manager in Witzenhausen, Operations Manager in Neuss) followed by assignments in Toronto and Green Bay. During this time, Andreas was not only active in the operational business, but was also responsible for project management and the development of organizations (high-performance work systems and organizational performance model). In various management positions he got to know the processes of tissue production and tissue conversion in detail and worked on loss analysis and debottlenecking. In addition, he was responsible for major projects such as the engineering of an Andritz tissue machine and further investments to set up a modern tissue site within a very short time.

MAURO DELLA SANTA

With more than 40 years of activity, Mauro’s entire working life so far has been spent in the paper industry with experience predominantly in machinery and equipment for the Tissue industry. Born in Lucca, the hearth of Tissue production and seat of major OEMs for that industry, he started his career in 1979 as sales executive at Officine Meccaniche Toschi S.p.A. (now Toscotec S.p.A.) where he remained for 10 years, starting getting knowledge of the machinery and technology and taking passion into the paper world. After that he has worked for a variety of OEMs, among which there are  A.Celli Paper, MC Papermachinery/Focus (now Valmet-Pescia) and Tecno Paper where he has matured and consolidated his knowledge of the winding process, to which he has also made several innovations during his career.