Our Mission is to help our customers improve the predictability of their paper, paperboard, or converted product. Improved product predictability leads to increased profitability for our customers, their customers, and their suppliers as well.

Objectivity and Independence is critical to our mission. We work to test, evaluate, interpret, and report the facts frankly and honestly in order to maximize our value to our customers. At times it is difficult for an in-house technical services group to be completely objective, especially when there are competing points of view.

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PREDICTABILITY is the most important product characteristic. We help paper and paperboard manufacturers improve the predictability of both their process and their products.

PROFIT follows PREDICTABILITY for paper and paperboard products.

Applied Paper Technology, Inc. had its beginning in the late 1980’s when Mead Coated Board formed an in-house technical services group, known as the Mead Coated Board Technical Institute. This group worked with customers and end-users on issues related to printing, converting, scoring, die cutting filling line operations, beverage carrier performance, and folding carton performance. Naturally there was a great emphasis on beverage carriers, since this represented such a significant part of the Mead business. The heart of the physical facility was a paper-testing laboratory, maintained at TAPPI standard conditions.

In March 1997, the technical services group was spun off. Vann Parker and the Mead employees in the existing facility formed a new company, Applied Paper Technology, Inc. The independent company continues to provide technical services for MeadWestvaco, but it also provides services for over 200 other companies. Typical customers for this service include manufacturers of paper and paperboard, printers, converters of paper products, and end-users who use paper and paperboard in their products or to package their products.

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Applied Paper Technology is a full service technical support facility. We focus on providing a rapid response with reliable results, plus interpretation of the results, based on practical experience and the knowledge of our associates. Typically we develop ongoing relationships with our customers, providing a one-stop source for technical support, testing, and interpretation of results.

Vann Parker worked in pulp and paper mills, providing technical leadership and close manufacturing support for 30 years. He has extensive manufacturing experience with coated paperboard, including Solid Bleached Sulfate (SBS), Folding Box Board (FBB), and Coated Unbleached Kraft (CUK). Vann and the staff also have experience working with Coated Recycled Board (CRB), coated papers (C1S & C2S), and uncoated papers.

In 2003 Miranda Bliss joined the group as Lab Manager. She has experience in manufacturing and testing coated and uncoated papers. Previously she was Lab Supervisor with IPST.

Our Associates have manufacturing experience in publication papers, coated free sheet, and tissue, as well as the board grades. The staff is also familiar with the properties of coated and uncoated papers as well as coated paperboard, bleached, unbleached, and recycled.