Anthony ‘Tony’ Lyons Wins TAPPI Herman L. Joachim Service Award TAPPI, the leading association for the pulp, paper, tissue, packaging and converting industry, announced that An- thony “Tony” Lyons, Ph.D., TAPPI Fellow, has been named winner of the prominent Herman L. Joachim Distinguished Service Award. The Herman L. Joachim Distinguished Service Award recognizes individuals for voluntary leadership and their
tiple TAPPI divisions and committees. His volunteer roles include the Finishing and Convert- ing Division and the Coating and Graphic Arts Division, where he served as Conference Chair and Division Chair for both and earned the Divisions’ Leadership and Service Awards. He served on the steering committee for the Interna- tional Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Ma- terials from 2005-2011. As Chair and Co-Chair of the PaperCon Steering Com- mittee in 2011 and 2012, Lyons played an instrumental role in creating the groundwork for TAPPICon, which is the pre- mier event for the forest products industry. Lyons began his career at IMERYS, formerly ECCI, in 1994 as leader of ECCI’s paper technology laboratory in Sanderville, Georgia and went on to serve in various lead- ership roles across the organization’s business units over the course of his 25-year tenure including coating and graphic arts, technology platforms, paper technology ap- plications, and pigments. Prior to his tenure at IMERYS, Lyons was the director of coatings and finishing research at Repap Technologies Inc. (RTI), a subsidiary of Repap Enterprise, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and a research engineer at Westvaco Cor- poration’s research center in Laurel, Maryland. He holds patents in pigments, barrier, inkjet, and agriculture. The award will be officially presented at TAPPICon, May 4-7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
support in advancing the mission and vision of TAPPI and the industry. “Dr. Lyons has made an impact on so many aspects of TAPPI,” said TAPPI President and CEO Larry N. Montague. “Over the course of 40 years, he has consistently worked for the bet- terment of the Association through
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his commitment to service and leadership, as well as countless technical contributions and I’m looking forward to presenting the award to him at TAPPICon.” Lyons retired from IMERYS as director of science and technology and established Paper Lyons LLC a paper and packaging technology consultancy, in 2017. A TAPPI member since 1985, Lyons served in leader- ship roles including the TAPPI Board of Directors and mul-
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