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TRAINING ACTIVITIES

Consultancy work is aimed either at providing expertise otherwise lacking within the client organisation or simply providing extra resources at times when in-house resources are being stretched. The use of consultancy services may thus be essential at certain times, but is no substitute for adequate training of full-time personnel, which provides enhanced in-house expertise available to the company all the time. This can be achieved by many methods from reading relevant journals to attending conferences. The former is relatively cheap and accessible to all staff, but rarely given adequate time, whereas the latter tends to be expensive and consequently limited at most to one person. An intermediate approach is on-site training which has the benefit of being able to bring together a group of people all interested in the same objective and working to a common aim.

Envirocell organises focused seminars aimed at different audiences within the pulp and paper sector. These are put on as general seminars at a central location, but also as customised seminars put on at a company's site.

General seminars

The current standard seminar programmes are as follows:

Introduction to paper chemistry

Wet end chemistry for papermakers

Wastewater treatment at paper mills

Optimising water close-up at paper mills

Optimising wastewater treatment at paper mills

Optimising waste management at paper mills

Management and technical options for environmentally-sound papermaking

Carbon characterisation and profiling for papermakers

On-site seminars

If there are adequate numbers within one company, it is often better to do the seminar in-house as this allows a more focused programme and greater freedom for discussion. The programmes can cover the above stand-alone programmes, combinations of these programmes or programmes aimed at specific groups of people in the company. Examples of the latter are:

- Practical Paper Chemistry, a one day programme developed for paper machine operators

- Practical Effluent Treatment, a one day programme for effluent treatment plant operators, based on the optimising
  wastewater treatment seminar above.