TAPPI Presents Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award To Benjamin Frank SuperCorrExpo (SCE) 2021 hosted thousands of exciting, intriguing and impressive members of the corrugated in- dustry for the first time in well over a year-and-a-half. This year’s conference saw a wide variety of exhibitors and suppliers on the Expo Floor, presented phenomenal key-
University. Following post-doctoral research at Stanford and IBM, he started his career in the forest products in- dustry at International Paper and joined PCA in 2001 as the Manager of the Packaging and Materials Testing Labs. In his role at PCA, he leads a team involved in research, technical support, and product development. Their research efforts focus on better understanding our materials and improving existing test methods in both accuracy and precision. Through these efforts, they’ve been able to advance modeling and prediction of com- pressive strength for containerboard, corrugated board and corrugated packaging, as well as assessments of overall package performance in the supply chain. Dr. Frank has also run a co-op program while with PCA, training and mentoring over 60 students. The students become integral parts of the group and go on to contrib- ute significantly in their careers after graduation. This out- reach effort has also provided Dr. Frank the opportunity to guest lecture, teach and guide undergraduate and gradu- ate students at many of the top packaging schools across the country. Over the years, Frank’s involvement in TAPPI and the industry has grown. With TAPPI, he has held leadership roles in Fiscotec, the Corrugated Awards Committee and the Quality & Standards Management Committee (Q&SMC) and has been active in Corbotech and ISO TC6. His in- volvement with the standards process includes authoring and revising for both TAPPI and ISO.
note speakers and displayed some of the most innovative designs and concepts through the first-ever Box Manufacturing Olympics. In addition, SCE acknowledged some of the most extraordinary leaders by presenting numerous awards, including the Gunnar Nich-
Benjamin Frank
olson Gold Medal Award. Established in 1928, the Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award is granted to those “who have made preeminent scientific and engineering achieve- ments of proven applied benefit to the world’s pulp, paper, board, and forest product industries. This is the highest honor TAPPI can bestow upon an individual. This prestigious award was presented to Benjamin Frank, Director-Materials Research and Innovation at Packaging Corporation of America (PCA). Frank received a Ph.D. in physics and M.S in Colloids, Polymers and Surfac- es (Chemical Engineering) in 1995 from Carnegie Mellon
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