Bruce Janda

Bruce W. Janda recently retired as Senior Consultant at Fisher International. He is a TAPPI Fellow and Education Committee Chair of TAPPI’s Tissue Division. He is also a tissue paper product and process expert, serving as the leader of TAPPI’s Tissue 101, 202, and 203 courses. Bruce continues to write and consult on the tissue business and technology as InnovaSpec, LLC.

Bruce has over 40 years of experience in the Paper and Nonwoven industry, specializing in Tissue and Towel Processes and Products. Bruce held positions in the Tissue industry at Georgia-Pacific, Kimberly-Clark, and others with roles in Product Development, Engineering, and Manufacturing. He worked on the supplier side at AstenJohnson as the Product Manager for TAD and Forming Fabrics, in addition to serving as the North American Product Business Leader and Global Innovation Leader for Forming. Bruce led the development and commercialization of a high-speed paper-forming process using foam as the fiber carrier instead of water. This was applied to tissue-making as a new production line in France. This technology is now being explored as a process to make advanced webs using natural but hard-to-form long fibers as replacements for plastics in packaging.

Bruce has extensive applications experience on World Class, high-speed Tissue and TAD machines in North America and Europe both as a producer and supplier. He had the opportunity to participate in three new tissue machine projects as process design leader, construction supervisor, and check out/start-up leader. Bruce has a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, MBA from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, Executive Scholar Certificate from the Kellogg School of Northwestern University, and Lean Sigma Black Belt Certification from AstenJohnson. He holds 20 US-issued patents, all related to Tissue and papermaking. One of his key product development projects was the leadership of the eMotion® electronic towel dispenser and TAD towel from concept through manufacturing and commercialization. This now represents a $1 billion/year sales brand for Georgia-Pacific.

Updated April 2023