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Potential Speakers for MBAA District MeetingsThe individuals and/or companies listed below are willing to travel to the Districts, upon invitation, to do the following presentations or to assist you in finding speakers. Most will not charge expenses, but some will. Contact the individuals below for further information. If assistance is required, contact Ray Klimovitz, MBAA Technical Director, at +1.715.720.6884. Andy Brewer, Product Manager, Briggs of Burton, Inc and Burnett & Rolfe. Andy can speak on kegging systems in general. Contact him at andrewbrewer@msn.com or +1.636.448.8474. Visit his website at: www.andybrewer.com Rick Brundage, Senior Consultant for ONDEO Nalco Company is available to talk on water treatment and other topics. Contact Rick at +1.412.264.7699 or by e-mail at: ebrundage@ondeo-nalco.com. Doug Cuss, President, Leo-Chem Enterprises Inc., and Canadian rep for JRS-USA is offering to do presentations on the use of all natural filtration aids at MBAA meetings. Doug can be reached by phone at 905-338-3010; fax 905-338-1368 or by e-mail at doug.cuss@sympatico.ca Cuno Filter Systems is available to provide lectures on trap, depth and membrane filtration; contact Conor O'Hara, Marketing Manager – Food & Beverage, Cuno Filter Systems. Phone +1.800.238.8660, ext 8923 or e-mail to cohara@cuno.com. George K. Crochiere, Crochiere & Associates, LLC, Pepperell, MA is available to talk about oxygen & contaminant ingress, and carbonation & moisture loss through closures, closure liners & plastic bottles as well as oxygen incorporated during the filling process. Crochiere & Associates, LLC is an independent consulting and testing firm with 20 plus years experience in sealants, coatings, barriers and scavengers specializing in full package testing with package abuse to simulate real world conditions and accurately predict product shelf life. For further information contact George at +1.978.618.7656 or crochiere_assoc@hotmail.com. Rick Davis is the EH Vice President of Sales for eps corp, Austin, Texas. Rick has a long professional history of business development and corporate strategy extending across a variety of industries and companies of all sizes. Rick has a JD from the University of Texas School of Law, an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, and a BA with honors from Rice University. Rick is available to speak in the areas of energy efficiency, sustainability, or carbon emission reduction and he can be contacted by e-mail (rickd@epsway.com) or by phone at 512-419-7785. Ecolab, Inc. of St Paul is available to lecture on "Practical Aspects of Brewery Sanitation" and also on "Chlorine Dioxide for the Brewing Industry." Ecolab has also just introduced a new food grade oil and grease preservative system for packaging lines; they call the system "PureGuard" and may be willing to present on this topic also. If interested, contact Joe Dirksen of Ecolab at +1.651.784.5758. Jack Ehman, Vice President of Sales for Gusmer-Cellulo is a good source of potential speakers. Gusmer-Cellulo reps for various brewing quality and production equipment manufacturers. Contact Jack at +1.908.301.1811, ext 211. Peter Elliot, Project Engineer – Food, Beverage, and Brewing Industry for GE Betz is available to present technical papers at MBAA meetings. Peter can address issues relative to biocide applications, dome staining, crown rusting, pasteurizer chemical treatment, water treatment and odor control Contact Peter at +1.215.942.3013 or by e-mail at: Peter.Elliott@gesm.ge.com. Bill Forsythe, a speaker at the MBAA Packaging Course in Madison is available to lecture on Can Double Seam Technology, emphasizing double seam control to any interested District. Contact Bill at +1.808.794.8076. Bill is an independent consultant, your District will have to pick up his expenses. Scott Helstad, Technical Services Manager, Cargill's North American Sweetners Division, is available to talk on: Liquid Adjuncts - their production and utilization in the brewery. Contact Scott by e-mail at: scott_helstad@cargill.com or by phone at +1.937.237.1236. Brent Jordan, Commercial Director, AB Vickers Ltd., Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, U.K. is available to make presentations on beer clarification/stabilization. Contact Brent by phone at: +44.1283.563268 or by e-mail at: bjordan@lallemand.com. Jim Joyce, Corporate Quality Department MillerCoors – Milwaukee WI is available to discuss aspects of “Reality at Retail” which provide perspective on how to assess and evaluate distributors for product management and handling practices as well as trade or retail quality evaluation concepts and tools. You can contact Jim at 414.931/3064 or at 414.803.4849 or email to cq09@mbco.com. Ray Klimovitz, MBAA Technical Director can speak on what's happening in MBAA either at a District business meeting or technical session. The District may need to pick up all or part of Ray's travel expenses depending on the status of the Technical Director's travel budget. Contact Ray at +1.715.720.6884 or via e-mail at: rklimovitz@aol.com. Jeff Gunn, IDD Process & Packaging, Moorpark, California is available to make presentations on flash pasteurization, Sankey kegging systems/concepts and yeast propagation equipment. Contact Jeff by phone at +1.805.529.9890 or by e-mail at: IDD2Jeff@aol.com. Mike Lammers of JohnsonDiversey has informed us that speakers from JohnsonDiversey, Inc. are available to speak on the following topics: CIP Optimization in Brewing and Packaging; Chlorine Dioxide in the Brewing Industry; Bottle washing in the Brewing Industry; Track Treatment in the Brewing Industry with emphasis on new chain lubricant technology; Pasteurizer Treatment in the Packaging Hall and Acidic Cleaning in the Cellars. Mike is the contact person for North America and can be reached by e-mail at: mike.lammers@johnsondiversey.com. Neal E. Megonnell,Corporate Technical Sales Specialist for Calgon Carbon Corporation is available to provide lectures on activated carbon adsorption in general and as it relates to various brewing applications such as water treatment and carbon dioxide purification. Topics can be very general as it relates to carbon adsorption or very specific for various applications. He can be contacted at +1.412.787.6638 or on his mobile phone at +1.412.736.8338. His FAX number is +1.412.787.6607 and e-mail is megonnell@calgoncarbon.com. Mustafa Rehmanji, Senior Research Chemist/Section Manager, Beverage Products for International Specialty Products Corporation (ISP), Wayne, New Jersey, is available to talk on: Colloidal Stabilization of Beer. Contact Mustafa by phone at +1.973.872.4403 or by e-mail at: mrehmanji@ispcorp.com Roland Schlenker, Pall Food and Beverage, is available to speak on the following topics: "New Developments in D.E. Filtration" and "Beer Recovery from Spent Yeast." You can reach Roland by E-mail at: roland_schlenker@pall.com. Dr. Alex Speers, Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Department of Food Science and Technology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, is available to talk on brewing quality assurance, product development and the physical chemistry of brewing (yeast flocculation and beta-glucan and arabinoxylan polymers. Dr. Speers has worked in the QA departments of both Labatt's and Molson's. His current research interests focus on brewing science and the physical properties and behavior of food systems. He can be reached by phone at +1.902.494.3146 or by e-mail at: Alex.Speers@dal.ca. Bud Teass, Jr., President of McNab, Inc. of Mount Vernon, New York, has advised us that they are available to present lectures on yeast, haze, color or trub measurement. Contact Bud by e-mail at info@themcnab.com or by phone at +1.914.699.1616 if interested. Tom Thilert, Sales Manager, Capital Equipment (Food & Beverage) for Seitz-Schenk. Tom can speak on filter systems and on beer filtration in general. Contact him at +1.410.518.9821 or +1.800.881.4017.
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