Dryad Technology, Inc.    The Developers of the New Millennium Paper Coating and Sizing Technology

Atlanta  GA, USA,  Tel: +1-770-934-0189  Fax: +1-678-388- 9191

Mr. Kangas works also as an independent process engineering and business consultant based in Atlanta, GA (USA), as Principal of ICN Independent Consulting Network, solving problems for global pulp and paper industry.  He holds patents in spray sizing and spray coating of paper, and also de-inking.

Formerly, he worked as a senior engineering and business consultant for Jaakko Poyry, Simons-Eastern, and Ekono. His specialties include mill operating improvement analysis, paper manufacturing, recycling, energy conservation and efficiency, sizing, coating, and neural analysis. In addition to manufacturing of publication papers in Finland, he was pioneering paper recycling and de-inking technology. As the Technical Director of Kerayskuitu Oy, in a joint venture with the Finnish paper industry, he advanced flotation de-inking into a new level to include 100% unsorted mixed household waste paper as raw material.  Curiosity led him to study the global pulp and paper industry first hand to improve their operations and economic performance.  In addition he is Executive VP in Dryad Technology Inc., intending to commercialize spraying technology as a new alternative for paper and board sizing and coating.

Mr Kangas holds a Masters Degree in Paper Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology (Finland).

Contact by e-mail: "last name"@dryadtechnology.com