TAPPI To Present Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award To Seyhan Nuyan TAPPI announced that Seyhan Nuyan, Ph.D., TAPPI Fellow, has been named winner of the prestigious Gunnar Nich- olson Gold Medal Award. Nuyan’s primary industrial con-
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continued growth and success of our organization under his leadership.” Sean will report into Doug Hay, Divisional Manag- er-Corrugate Converting. He will be developing training programs for plant employees to ensure they have the necessary skills to perform their jobs safely and efficiently. He will collaborate with production management and oth- er stakeholders to identify training needs. Additionally, he will stay updated with industry practices and technology to enhance training content and delivery. “We are eager for Sean to continue the enhancement of the technical skills and expertise of our machine oper- ators, enabling us to deliver top-notch products and ser- vices to our customers,” said Josh Grindstaff, Director of Plant Operations.
tributions are in the areas of quality measurements and control solutions for moving sheet processes. Now retired, the former director of Sales and Applications with Val- met is one of the pioneers of devel- oping advanced paper quality mea- surement and control solutions and
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holds four control system patents. Nuyan has published numerous peer-reviewed articles
and contributed to various books including “Paper Machine Quality Control Systems” Volumes 1 and 2 as a co-author. Over the course of his 43-year career at Valmet, Nuyan worked in leadership po- sitions from Applications R&D to Product, Business, Sales, and Executive Manage- ment in the US, Canada and Finland. He was honored with a presidential Medal of Honor, Knight, First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland. A TAPPI member since 1987, he served in many leadership roles in the Process Control Division. In 2018, he received the Division’s Leadership and Service award and was named Chair Emeritus, Process Control. He was an active member of the Gulf Coast TAPPI and Virginia-Carolina Local Sections, and served as chairman of Pa- perCon’s steering committee in 2018. He was a member of the TAPPI TIP 1101- 01 Working Group and played an active role in expanding the calculations in the TIP’s 2017 revision. Nuyan has presented at many confer- ences winning the 2008 Jasper Mardon Memorial Prize and the Division’s Best Pa- per Awards for 2008 and 2018. He is also a PAPTAC member and contributed to its Theory & Practice of Papermaking courses over a 15-year period. Nuyan holds a Ph.D. in Control Engi- neering and a M.S. in Electronics both from the University of South Carolina, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineer- ing from the Middle East Technical Univer- sity, Ankara, Turkey. The award will be presented at TAPPI- Con, April 28-May 1 in Cleveland, Ohio.
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