Arne Asplund Mechanical Pulping Award 2020 Awarded to Bengt Akerblom of Dametric AB

摘要

The Arne Asplund Mechanical Pulping Award for 2020 has been granted to Bengt Akerblom, Varby, Sweden, the owner and founder of Dametric AB. The award is endowed every second year by The Arne Asplund Mechanical Pulping Award Foundation to promote the development of new technology for the manufacture of high-yield pulp. Presentation of the award was planned for June 9, at the International Mechanical Pulping Conference, IMPC, which is hosted by The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada this year. This event has now been postponed and the prize will be presented on a later occasion. Bengt Akerblom has devoted his entire professional life to developing, constructing and providing the pulp market with equipment and solutions for process measurement and control, particularly for the mechanical and chemi-mechanical pulping industry. He is the principal owner and Chairman of the Board of the Dametric company, which produces and markets his various inventions.