Pilot Plant
The primary purpose of the NTC pilot plant
What is simulating and developing papermaking processes on a smaller scale before full-scale production.
Name one of the labs at NTC.
What is Fiber Lab, Analytical Lab, Microbiology Lab, Microscopy, or Physical Testing Lab.
Identify five of the 15 consumer and PRO brands NTC supports via product development.
What is Angel Soft, Quilted Northern, Brawny, Vanity Fair, Dixie, Sparkle, enMotion, Compact, Pacific Blue, ActiveAir, CoverMax and Dixie, Angel Soft, Brawny and Sparkle Professional Series.
NTC provides this type of support to mills and engineers.
What is technical expertise in process and product troubleshooting.
This is the name of the innovation framework used at NTC.
The Innovation Playbook.
NTC pilot plant hours of operation
What is Monday-Thursday, 10 hours per day, 52 weeks per year.
Labs at NTC provide these types of sample analysis.
What is comprehensive analysis including raw materials, product characterization, and complaint investigation.
This key step in product development is supported by NTC.
What is Prototyping and testing new product formulations.
This is the NTC Lab Services Director.
Who is Dave Reber
NTC holds this annual event to foster a culture of innovation among employees.
What is Discovery Showcase.
This NTC pilot plant capability supports product innovation.
What is running experimental paper machine trials to test new formulations and processes.
The Fiber Lab is part of this NTC team.
What is the Lab Services Team.
This is a way NTC helps in addressing product customer complaints.
What is detailed product analysis and root cause investigation.
This is one form of technical documentation maintained by NTC.
What are research reports, product safety plans, or quality assurance manuals.
This quarterly event improves connections among NTC employees.
What is Coffee with Colleagues.
The primary beneficiary of pilot plant services
Who are mills, product developers, and engineers looking to scale up or test new product ideas.
NTC's Analytical Lab offers this advantage in material analysis.
What are broad capabilities to illuminate structure-function relationships across gas, liquid, and solid states.
This is a way NTC supports commercialization of new products.
What is providing data and testing results to validate product claims and performance.
This tool helps NTC employees share knowledge and best practices.
What is EverLearn.
The goals of the annual Discovery Showcase event.
What is increase networking, innovation, and learning across the NTC community.
This is a challenge the pilot plant helps mitigate before commercial production.
What is identifying and solving scale-up issues and optimizing processes to reduce risk and cost.
This is how the NTC Lab Teams ensure accuracy in their results.
What is using advanced analytical techniques and collaborating closely with subject matter experts.
This NTC resource houses decades of research and product development knowledge.
What is the NTC library which manages both physical and digital repositories.
This is how NTC ensures alignment of roles and responsibilities with organizational priorities.
What is by integrating the NTC vision with Roles, Responsibilities, and Expectations (RR&Es).
This is a strategy used at NTC to anticipates future information needs beyond traditional library services.
What is actively transforming library services to meet present and future client needs.