Lauterbach Adds Consultants

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 01/19/2010

Lauterbach & Associates LLC, a Macon, Georgia, USA, based consulting group specializing in helping smaller tobacco companies meet FDA regulations has retained the services of M. Lance Reynolds and Michael F. Forbes. Reynolds is an expert in tobacco science and selective filtration of tobacco smoke. From 1986 to 1991, he was director of research at Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., where he had overall responsibility for routine and research analytical chemistry, regulatory matters including ingredient safety, international export product development, licensee product development, pilot plant operation, statistics, and materials science. Also, while at B&W, Reynolds was on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to ISO Technical Committee 126 on Tobacco and Tobacco Products and worked with international standards relating to tobacco products and with national standards organizations in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Japan, and China. After retiring from B&W in 1991, Reynolds became a consultant in the fields of management of innovation, organizational change, and quality processes. He led teams examining major manufacturing, service, and health-care agencies and he wrote award-winning applications for organizations in both the public and private sectors. His clients have included Siemens Nuclear Power, Western Sintering, British American Tobacco, and Perkin-Elmer. Reynolds has Master's and Bachelor's degrees in chemistry from Oxford University, England. Forbes received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Paper Chemistry and has had more than 24 years of experience in the paper industry working primarily in the areas of papermaking, coating, and printing. He is well versed in test methods and analytical techniques for paper, especially in the areas of microscopy and image analysis, and has worked for both paper manufacturers and suppliers to the paper industry. Forbes' research interests are in the areas of paper chemistry and paper physics, and he has worked extensively in the identification of contaminants in both paper and coatings. He has led research projects in the refining of bleached and unbleached pulps of both hardwood and softwood species. Forbes has also led projects in the areas of the extrusion coating of bleached board, and the calendering and supercalendering of various paper and board grades. In developing a variety of paper coatings, he has worked with pigment, latex, and additive suppliers to achieve the desired product end-use properties. He has also led projects to increase the amount of secondary fiber used in coated grades. As an employee of KaMin LLC (formerly J.M. Huber), Forbes conducted many pilot-coater trials at the CIC coater facility in Trois Rivières, Quebec, Canada, and has run numerous printing trials for sheetfed, heatset, rotogravure and inkjet processes at facilities such as Rochester Institute of Technology and Graphic Arts Technical Foundation. He has also conducted joint research projects with the University of Maine. Forbes is an active member of Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry and the American Chemical Society. Enditem