{"415621":{"#nid":"415621","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Marsolan Attends Wallenberg Symposium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIPST Director Norman Marsolan attended the Marcus Wallenberg Prize ceremony and symposium October 1-2 in Stockholm, Sweden. His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, presided at the gala dinner. The prize was established in 1980 through a donation from the shareholders of Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB in honor of the company\u2019s retiring chair, after whom the prize is named. This year, the recognition was awarded to Mika Viljanmaa for his work on \u201cResource-Saving Metal Belt Calendering.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarcus Wallenberg, grandson of the founder and current chair of the Wallenberg Foundation as well as chair of SEB of Stockholm, introduced the symposium. The theme of the scientific event was \u201cEfficient Fibre Utilization\u2014A Response to the Global Wood Supply Situation.\u201d Laureate Viljanmaa presented his research. Other reviews included \u201cForest Sector Transformation: Maximizing Value from Canada\u2019s Forest Resource,\u201d by Forest Products Association of Canada executive vice president Catherine Cobden; \u201cMulti-Layer technology in Paper-Making,\u201d by Daniel S\u00f6derberg of Innventia; and several others. Videos of the events can be accessed at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mwp.fabrik618.se\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/mwp.fabrik618.se\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(click on Symposium 2012).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn reflecting on the meeting, Marsolan mentioned speakers\u2019 repeated references during the course of the sessions to the forest products industry\u2019s conservatism. Several speakers with financial expertise urged the industry to look more critically at new investment possibilities, and to be more willing to take prudent risks. Speakers acknowledged the need to be good stewards of corporate capital while noting the need to respond to the changing future marketplace.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIPST professor Art Ragauskas also attended the dinner.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Marsolan attends Wallenburg Prize ceremony and symposium in Sweden"}],"uid":"27178","created_gmt":"2015-06-17 09:44:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:37","author":"Amna Jamshad","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"415611":{"id":"415611","type":"image","title":"King Gustaf awarding the 2012 Wallenberg Prize to Mika Severi Viljanmaa","body":null,"created":"1449254245","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:37:25","changed":"1475895152","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:32","alt":"King Gustaf awarding the 2012 Wallenberg Prize to Mika Severi Viljanmaa","file":{"fid":"202508","name":"v7_wallenberg.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/v7_wallenberg_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/v7_wallenberg_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":51811,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/v7_wallenberg_0.jpg?itok=wRdnCgaS"}}},"media_ids":["415611"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4754","name":"IPST"},{"id":"93811","name":"RBI"},{"id":"4174","name":"renewable"},{"id":"167933","name":"sweden"},{"id":"167061","name":"symposium"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B. Smith, Marketing \u0026amp; Communication\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@ipst.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}