Registration Now Open for RISI's 13th Asian Pulp & Paper Outlook Conference

BEDFORD, Massachusetts, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

RISI, the leading information provider for the forest products industry, today announced that registration is open for its 13th annual Asian Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference.

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The 13th RISI Asian Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference will take place June 11-13, 2012 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai, China. The conference will feature an impressive lineup of guest speakers representing leading companies from every corner of the pulp and paper supply chain talking about the issues and opportunities they are facing. In addition, RISI economists will present their two-year outlooks for the pulp and paper industry.

Attendees will include executives from paper companies, merchants, pulp producers, suppliers, financial analysts, consumer products companies, and other end-users.

On June 12, the program includes the industry's leading experts covering the important topics of the day. Speakers will include pulp and paper producers, financial analysts, end users of paper/board, associations and many more. We will also be hosting a CEO / Executive Panel which will be a roundtable discussion with the region's leading executives.

The second day of the program on June 13 attendees will hear from the RISI experts and their forecasts for specific industry sectors, including:

• Kurt Schaefer, Vice President & Practice Leader, Fiber, RISI
• Hannah Zhao, Economist, Recovered Paper, RISI
• Ken Waghorne, Vice President, Packaging, RISI
• Han Yao, Economist, RISI
• Portia Zhao, Senior Product Manager, Mill Intelligence, RISI
• Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, RISI
• Li Meng, Asian Graphic Paper Economist, RISI
• John Maine, Vice President, Graphic Paper, RISI

Conference programs and registration details for the Asian Conference are currently available at http://www.risi.com/asiaconf.

Sponsors of the Asian Pulp & Paper Outlook Conference include HP, ColorLok Technology and Kadant. For information on sponsoring this event, please email advertising@risi.com or visit http://www.risiinfo.com/events/asia_conf/sponsoropps.html for more details.

About RISI (http://www.risi.com)  

Owned by UBM plc, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, RISI is the leading information provider for the global forest products industry. The company works with clients in the pulp and paper, wood products, timber, biomass, tissue, nonwovens, printing and publishing industries to help them make better decisions. Headquartered in Boston, MA, RISI operates additional offices throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia.

About UBM plc (http://www.ubm.com)  

UBM plc is a leading global company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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