ATLANTA, GA.--November 22, 2004—Several key paper
industry organizations have banded together to announce
the creation of the Forest Products Leadership Alliance
(FPLA). The purpose of this new alliance is
to take a leadership role in providing professional development
options for our industry in the areas of management and
leadership skills.
CPBIS, the Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, PIMA, the Paper Industry
Management Association, NPTA Alliance, the National Paper Trade Association,
and PPERA, The Pulp and Paper Education and Research Alliance have created this
new Leadership Alliance to provide management and leadership oriented education
and training for everyone throughout the forest products supply chain from the
stump to the shelf.
Harry Cullinan, PPERA president noted, “this is a new way to look at our
industry by providing a new partnership that will serve a key management and
leadership skills development role for the forest products industry”. “Harnessing
the great resources of all of these organizations will benefit the industry in
new ways,” said PIMA president, Ralph Feck. “Many companies
have membership in multiple groups. This is a strategy to improve service to
all,” added NPTA Alliance president, Bill Frohlich.
The FPLA is intended to build across time on existing systems and relationships shared
among CPBIS, PIMA, NPTA and a number of other key industry organizations, such
as Oregon State University and North Carolina State University. Jim McNutt,
CPBIS executive director added that “this new Leadership Alliance will
build on each organization’s strengths to create synergies aimed at developing
and delivering management, leadership, and other ‘soft skills’ education
and training that is required by our forest products industry to remain competitive
in today’s global economy”.
The Forest Products Leadership Alliance -- FPLA --will create curriculum and
certificate programs to provide our members the skills that they will need to
meet the leadership and management skills needs of the industry for the 21st
century.
About CPBIS: The Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies (CPBIS) is a
globally recognized and industry-valued academic center, creating knowledge and
tools that support paper industry decision-makers and producing interdisciplinary
graduates who contribute to the long-term success of the paper industry. CPBIS
is cosponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Georgia Institute of Technology
(Georgia Tech), and the paper industry via formal relationships with numerous
companies and key industry organizations such as the Paper Industry Management
Association (PIMA), the Technical Association for the Pulp and Paper Industry
(TAPPI), the Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada (PAPTAC), and the
National Paper Trade Association (NPTA) and others.
About NPTA: The NPTA Alliance, founded in 1903, service the interests of the
paper, packaging and supplies distribution channel through the US, Canada and
a dozen foreign countries. NPTA members benefit from tracking of industry
trends, benchmarks, education, communication programs and networking.
About PIMA: The Paper Industry Management Association (PIMA) is the premier association
for management professionals in the paper and pulp industry. Our purpose is to
contribute to the strength of the international pulp and paper community by providing
the means for our members to address relevant industry issues and to develop
their management and leadership skills.
About PPERA: The Pulp and Paper Education and Research Alliance (PPERA) is an
alliance of universities with programs which are individually distinctive but
which are similar in being committed to the advancement of the North American
pulp, paper and allied industries.
David Bell
Director of Development
Email: David.Bell@CPBIS.gatech.edu
Phone: 404-894-9592
website: http:www.cpbis.gatech.edu
Address: Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies
The
Paper Center: Research Led, Business Focused
500
10th Street N.W.
Atlanta,
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