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26 | /INSIGHT ON MANUFACTURING • Januar y 2015 w w w.in s i g h t o n m f g . c o m PLANT|NEWS GEORGIA-PACIFIC OVERCOMES LOGISTICAL HURDLE TO DELIVER NEW, EFFICIENT BOILER A three-story-tall natural gas boiler destined for the Georgia-Pacific Green Bay Broadway Mill made it more than 800 miles from Port Weller, Ontario, on the 436-foot oceangoing cargo ship Palmerton — which turned out to be too large to clear the final railroad bridge on the Fox River. So instead of docking and unloading at the Georgia-Pacific boat slip, the boiler had to be unloaded from the Palmerton and barged up the river for the final two miles of its journey. The natural gas boiler was purchased from Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc., headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., and was manufactured by Trenergy Inc., a St. Catharines, Ontario-based maker of pressure vessels, boilers EVENT|NEWS MOTY, MANUFACTURING MATTERS! PLANNED FOR FEB. 26 O n Thursday, Feb. 26, both the Manufacturing Matters! conference and the Manufacturer of the Year award program will be held in Milwaukee. Manufacturing Matters! is sponsored by the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership and will be held from 7 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, 333 W. Kilbourn Ave. The conference offers opportunities for learning, networking and collaboration. The keynote session features Mike Laszkiewicz, vice president and general manager of Rockwell Automation. For more information or to register for the conference, visit www.wmep.org. The Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year award ceremony will be held at the Pfister Hotel, 424 E. Wisconsin Ave. MOTY nominees from the New North region: Alliance Laundry Systems LLC, Ripon; Amerequip Corporation, Kiel; Fox River Fiber Company, LLC, De Pere; Green Bay Packaging Inc., Green Bay; MEGTEC Systems, Inc., De Pere; N.E.W. Plastics Corp, Luxemburg; Nicolet Plastics, Inc., Mountain; Orion Labels LLC, Seymour; Plexus Corp., Neenah; Services Plus, Inc., Green Bay; Vargo Tool & Die, Inc., Marinette; Winsert, Inc., Marinette. The program begins with a cocktail reception at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 7 p.m. The awards presentation will be at 8 p.m. The ceremony is a black-tie attire event. The program is sponsored by Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Baker Tilly and Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce. For more information, contact the MOTY coordinator at (800) 362-7301 or email wimoty@bakertilly.com. WMC also will host its Focus on Manufacturing breakfast the following morning from 7 to 9 a.m. Keynote speaker will be Ellen Nowak, commissioner of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. For more information, visit www.wmc.org. SAVE THE DATE: INDEVELOPMENT COMING MARCH 12 IN GREEN BAY T he InDevelopment Conference will be held Thursday, March 12, at the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center in Green Bay. Please watch insightonbusiness.com for more information. F Georgia-Pacific's new three-story boiler arrived on the cargo ship Palmerton on Dec. 11. The ship was too wide to clear the last railroad bridge on the Fox River, so the boiler had to be brought by barge the final two miles to the Broadway Mill facility. C O U R T E S Y O F G E O R G I A - PA C I F I C