PAPEREX' 07-8th Paper International Conference

It took me some tym to think,rethink and realise what my nxt blog wud be and here i m with a blog to live up to the expectations of a paper technocrat(in the makin of course!!) .The blog expatiates the highlights of Paper Internstional Conference held in DELHI from 7-9th, December, 2007. It was the first International Conference tat i attended and infact my first conference ever.Thanks to my peers ANI(anish),KARAN(molu,although he used to be quite frustrated by that nickname before,but, we love it) & VIKS(vikanshu) of course who took me with them for it and the HOD of our dptt. who made it possible for us to get free entry there.The conference was accompanied by an exhibition by various paper industries for all 3 days.

The conference has given me some charismatic memories tat i will cherish for a long tym.But the question is tat why m i writin this on my blog???The reason is simple and tat is tat i found a bag full of new and incredible things about the field of Pulp & Paper technology which would excite to know more and more about this field.Its not tat i m publicising Pulp and Paper on my blog(waise bhi my blog isn't so famous tat i can publicise smthg on it :) ) but i want everyone related to this field shud know the depth of this branch so that u can try becoming a paper technocrat.rite???

Wrong..its all crap m not the writer of the millenium tat i can create a picturesque view of the whole conference in ur mind.So jus read and have fun reading u like it, comment on it, u dont like comment (criticize it) on it.

DAY 1- 7th December,2007:

With Sun held high and spirits in us high we reached the venue for inaugeration late as usual maintaining our dignity of not reachin on tym.Reaching the wrong gate and getting ourselves registered for the wrong exhibition got us even more late, though we didnt miss much.The most important part beingthe speech of John P. Harrison who left us all scratchin our heads with his keynote which was that the Paper industry has lead to so much of the defforestation that there are forest denuding to a large extent and there wud be no means to make paper.The other chief guests were Chairman Taffco, Vice president TAPPI and a few more imp. names that i seem to hav forgotten.Then we moved towards the Conference Hall we seated ourselves in one of the last few rows[the same way we sit in our classroom ;) ].

The first day, full of excitement we intended to attend all the three sessions the first one being the one with Pradeep Dobale, CEO, ITC Ltd. as the Chairperson.The most prominent of the speakers was Sunil Sood,April Marketting(V.P.).His Presentation was based on the scarcity of pulp if the recession of trees continues which would lead to high cost pulp and then high cost paper and thus encouragiong electronic media.The presentation given by him was really touchy.He was very polite in his speech and he was so ingenuous that u could see how sentimental he was as if he was making a call an urge to the people to wake up .He said lots of things about tree scarcity in the future.All four of us were really impressed by him and were dying to meet him.(Karan toh as usual becomes a fan of anyone in a flash kabhi DEAN toh kabhi JASMEAN) the end he said in a way as if makin a point to the CEO,ITC saying "i can do it pradeep,i dont know how"(i don't remember it completely) showing how sentimentally attatched he is to the feild and showing the professionalism Mr. Dobale and his emotional attatchment to it.

After a mindboggling session of 2 hrs we had Tea with virtuosi in the field of Pulp and Paper from all over the world.The Tea tym was used by us to do some social networking with them.Who so ever we met were more than glad to find students from IIT Roorkee, Department of Paper Technology.They would all greet us with a jubiliant smile and would start on the conversation with great verboseness .We were surprised and happy to get this kind of a response from almost all of them.We wre flying high even without a peg of booze to get such respect that u go in any part of the world be it ASIA,UK or the US.The day ended leaving us all strianed but filled in us a feeling that the ady was really worth it.

Day 2- 8th, December,2007:

We reached the venue next morning, we could feel the tireness of last night in our bodyAll of us(except karan of course) were not willing much to attend the conference today and wanted to enjoy it.I was very excited to enter into Fespa exhibition(electronic gadgets) so the three of us(viks,ani and i) went there and karan went to Paperex.We were enjoying ourselves(actually jus me and not the other two) at fespa and were stunned to see the various new gadgets for printing and all. A while later Karan called up and said he was gettin bored and so viks and ani were elated to leave Fespa.However, i enjoyed the paperx exhibition as well which we attended later.There we saw various techniques of packaging,drying,then beating,et.The most facsinating of all was the hand made paper.The process is simple the beater used is a simple one and then they would make various patterns on the surface which can be used for packing and also for decoration purposes.Although i cant create the same picture in ur head but can tell you tat there were stalls of all the famous paper mills be it BILT, ITC or TRIDENT showcasing there different techniques and new technologies which fascinated all 4 of us.

The next thing we did was forex into the WINE Exhibition.We were so excited to visit the wine exh. tat we gor ourselves registered as fast as we could and made our way into it.It was a paradise for wine lovers be it KOREAN,FRENCH,UK or AUSTRALIAN.Some of us tasted wines(obviously Karan was leading the way to Viks and Ani) i refused to taste it but the tragedy was tat i tasted a mocktail containing RUM(which i didn know for sure) , Ugh... it was really bitter tat i threw it away at jus licking it.Damn i m not a teetotaller any more.Hope my parents dont come across this blog of mine else... OH MY GOD!!!!!i'll be dead man walking.

Day 3- 9th, December,2007:

Ahh alas!!The most awaited day had arrived the last day of the conference and also the day on which Our HOD was to chair the first session.It was our chance to get high in Hods eyes by reching on tym.We were trying really hard pushing each to get up from the bed as early as possible, bathed with ice cold water(light was out), missed our breakfast, took an auto to reach the venue.It was it, LATE again by half an hour(nobody can help us i guess).The session was related to Research and Development (Water and Ozone).The session had main aims to make a call for using agro based paper and low consumption, possiblity of producing zero effluent method with the help of the kidney technology.

The session ended with the speech of The Chairperson(our HOD) which impressed all the ppl present in the hall that tym and we were stunned the way he conveyed his message in such voluble way.Encouraging the speakers in his session who were young scientist so made a cal for an applause for the young leaders.

We then left the venue and went into the WINE Exhibition coz ani wanted to get a pic with the wines so we went especially there for his pic.Those three days were quite hot and happening for me when i enjoyed myself with my friends allot.In french we say we had a high" JOIE DE VIVRE" in those days.

The conference has helped me in two ways first it gave some really memorable moments of a lifetym with my freinds.Second it has increased my propensity towards the Paper technology and i feel i can perseu a career in this particular field as a no. of finnish paper industries are trying to foray into india so there is a large scope in this field.