We have received the following letter from Ed Turner:
Edward A. Turner
104 Canal St
Camden, NC 27921
July 6, 2011
Mr. Jim Thompson
Talo Analytic International
4018 Keeneland Court
Duluth, GA 30096
Dear Jim:
Due to a serious family illness that demands my top priority and concentration, I must submit my resignation as Executive Director of the Lean Green Machine Institute (LGMI) effective as soon as a suitable transition can be completed.
Nearly a year ago, when you approached me regarding this exciting position, I was intrigued with the opportunity to be an early part of an initiative that should lead to many new innovations to the current norms of paper machine design. I am still intrigued. In the last several months I’ve learned that there are many, many opportunities to make machine systems lighter and, in turn, less expensive to purchase, install, operate and maintain. Simultaneously, I’ve learned that there are many, many paradigms that must be broken and new ones shaped. I hope that I’ll be able to stay “in the loop” on LGMI activities in the future and that you and the new Director will call on me when you see an opportunity for me to help so that I might be a part of building these new paradigms.
Highest regards,
Ed
We wish Ed and his wife, Glenda all the best as the go through these difficult times.
In his place, we have appointed Dr. Brian Brogdon as Executive Director of the Light Green Machine Institute. Brian's bio follows:
Dr. Brian N. Brogdon is a Senior Consultant for FutureBridge Consulting & Training, LLC providing advice and training related pulp manufacturing. Prior to becoming an independent consultant in 2007, he worked at Vinings Industries (now Kemira Chemicals) for ten years at their Marietta, GA Technical Center as a Principal/Senior Research Scientist for product development related to pulp manufacturing, deposit control and novel wet-end chemistries. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech, and his M.S. and Ph.D., with Distinction, from the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST). Brian has been actively involved in various professional societies. He has held leadership positions as the Chairman of the Southeastern TAPPI Local Section and the Alkaline Pulping and Bleaching Committee. Dr. Brogdon serves on Editorial Advisory Boards for the Journal of Wood Chemistry and Technology and TAPPI Journal. He was appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Professor (2001-2003) at IPST and is currently serving as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Byproducts and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Brogdon has authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles and has presented over 30 scientific papers related to pulping, digester scale control, and bleaching; he also has an U.S. Patent related to novel, biodegradable wet-end chemistries to enhance paper opacity. Brian has recently authored several chapters related to bleaching stages and bleach sequence modeling in TAPPI’s recently updated The Bleaching of Pulp (Fifth Edition), which is to come out in late-2011.
