INVISTA EM CONHECIMENTO - Revista O Papel

ABTCP Management Articlecontinuously with experience, with the learningbrought by difficulties and opportunities faced dayafter day and with new trainings.experience is an excellent tool for abilitiesdevelopment. This may come from our own existence,our mistakes and hits, but still better is the learningbrought by other people experiences, since itminimizes costs and speeds up the capacitationprocess. There is a chinese proverb which nicelyillustrates this point: “if two men, each one carryingone bread, walking in opposite direction in the sameroad, exchange their breads when meeting eachother, each one will still have one bread. however,if they exchange ideas, each one will follow his pathwith, at least, two”. Knowledge and information,whenever shared, are multiplied!for a professional, learning with other peopleexperiences means interact, exchange ideas/experiences and learn. for the companies, investin “technical capacitation” means increase itscompetitiveness and profitability, retaining capableprofessionals, creating opportunities for theyounger to learn with the older and stimulatingtheir professionals to exchange information andexperiences with professionals from equivalent areas.Specific training courses or information, seminars,technical visits and congresses are imperativetechnical capacitation tools for our pulp and papersector. There are several opportunities of formalcapacitation in the country, through mid levelcourses, college and postgraduate courses, both inpublic and private schools, graduating technicians,technologists, engineers, masters in science anddoctors in matters related to the pulp and paperuniverse. This can be confirmed in our cover Story,also highlighting the alternatives offered by aBTcpcounterparts abroad.on top of that, several companies have developedtheir own capacitation programs and labor trainingfor their employees, emphasizing their specific needs.Some of these companies hire external courses,to be taught inside their facilities – including latosensu post graduation courses, as the ones offeredby aBTcp to the sector, representing, in practice, itsmission of promoting the technical and technologicaldevelopment in the production chain.our association has always had a strong presencein pulp and paper technical capacitation. This was,inclusively, one of the motivational forces of itsfounders, who always counted on the support ofthe companies in the sector, due to the importanceof such activities. These days, aBTcp has severalactivities to support and assist the technicians intheir professional growth.at aBTcp, besides the Technical collection (onlineservice available to members for consulting articlesand literature, among other materials), several shorttechnical courses are offered, aiming at upgrading ortraining of specific matters. There are also distancelearning courses, using electronic resources, and theclassroom courses, ranging from 8 to 16 hours, whichtake place at the association headquarters, but thatcan also be taught in specific locations, like at thecompanies’ facilities – called in company courses.for a capacitating program with higher hourlyload, which may offer more details on the wholepulp and paper process, the association promotes,in a partnership with Mackenzie university, the latosensu post graduation course, with fortnight classeson fridays and Saturdays. at this moment, there isa class starting up in São paulo and another onealready being formed in paraná state.Still, there is the annual congress, an excellentopportunity for exchanging ideas and experienceswith other professionals of the sector, apartfrom getting acquainted with the technical workdeveloped in the front lines of research and technicalservice in the sector. finally, an opportunity tomultiply knowledge from international exchange.as one of the highlights of aBTcp technical training,congress this year will be even more relevant, dueto the technical sessions carried out simultaneouslywith the pulp and paper investigations iberoamericancongress (ciadicyp), an important sector event whichalready took place in argentina, Spain, chile, Mexicoand portugal.With the theme Big challenges in research andTechnology of lignocellulosic Materials and pulp andpaper, the congress will have technical sessions onprocess automation and control; pulp; engineering andmaintenance; environment; paper; recovery and utilities.Therefore, we expect the participation of all of you inthis event as well as the attendance to the internationalexhibition of technologies for pulp and paper productionprocess. Make your schedule for aBTcp 2012 – the 45 thpulp and paper international congress and exhibition, tobe held in São paulo, next october, from 9 th to 11 th , atthe Transamerica expo center!•48 Revista O Papel - junho/June 2012