Chris Francis

Area Operations Manager at Sappi

Chris Francis is an experienced operations and process engineer with a strong background in the pulp and paper industry. Currently serving as Area Operations Manager at Sappi North America since October 2018, Chris has held various roles including Area Operations Coordinator and Senior Process Engineer, focusing primarily on technical support for pulping operations. Previously, Chris worked at Crane Currency as a Process Engineer, leading a cross-functional team on yield improvement initiatives, and at Verso Corporation and Verso Paper Corp. in process engineering roles, contributing to new product trials and statistical process control. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maine and a Master of Science in Engineering Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Waterville, United States

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Sappi

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Sappi Limited is a woodfiber company focused on providing graphic/printing papers, packaging and specialty papers, dissolving wood pulp (DWP), as well as products in adjacent fields, including nanocellulose and lignosulfonate. The Company's segments include North America, Europe and Southern Africa. Its range of graphic paper products is used by printers in the production of books, brochures, magazines, catalogues, direct mail and various other print applications; packaging and specialty papers are used in the manufacture of such products as soup sachets, carry bags, cosmetic and confectionery packaging, boxes for agricultural products for export, tissue wadding for household tissue products and casting release papers used by suppliers to the fashion, textiles, automobile and household industries, and DWP products are used around the world by converters to create viscose fiber for clothing and textiles, pharmaceutical products, as well as a range of consumer and household products.


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