Asian Institute of Technology

Pulp and Paper Technology at AIT:Sustainable Education and Research

Asia is now meeting its paper require-ments through a combination of indigenous resources and technology. But Asian raw materials – wood, recycled paper and water – are different from those in Europe and North America. This calls for a need to know more about natural resources in Asia, apart from developing techno- logy to process them economically into paper products of desired specifi-cations.

Pulp and Paper Technology (PPT) at AIT has been contributing to the ever changing technological and manpower demands of the regional paper and allied industry.

Since its inception over a decade ago, 196 students from 12 Asian countries have completed their Ph.D. or Master’s degree at PPT and are now contributing to the rapidly growing Asian paper industry.

PPT has launched “On-site Technical Development Programs” for the paper and paper allied industry in 2010.

PPT offers technical upgrade for field-level employees, which will help mills to improve their technical competency, apart from boosting the confidence of shop floor personnel. PPT helps identify sales opportuni-ties, thereby adding the flavour of “technical selling” in the paper allied industry.

FOR INDUSTRY LEADERS: PPT offers an on-site, tailor-made special-ized technical seminar / colloquium for technical / production teams on subjects of current relevance, such as deinking, press optimization, process and operations problem solving. This will help industry leaders update themselves with the latest technologi-cal developments in the specific subjects.

FOR SHOP FLOOR PERSONNEL: PPT, being an industry specific field of study, offers technical services to Pulp, Paper and Paper-Allied Industry through a 1-5 day, tailor-made on-site technical training programs for shop floor personnel and Chemical / Equip-ment / Clothing Suppliers.

TESTING FACILITIES: PPT has excellent pulping and paper testing laboratory facilities. It has a compre-hensive range of latest design equipments which can be utilized by the industry for testing as well as investigations required by paper mills, converters, printers and the packaging industry.

TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY: PPT provides technical consultancy on Process and Product Quality Improve-ment / Problem Solving Process Audit.

PPT maintains proprietary information confidentiality by assurance or a written intellectual property confiden- tiality agreement for every collabora-tive project and tailor-made Technical Development / Training Program.