The 22-year-old forward suffered an injury during the preparation with the Swiss national team Monika Majer / RvS.Media The Swiss Ice Hockey Federation did not disclose what kind of injury Attilio Biasca suffered. The forward, who will suit up for HC Fribourg-Gottéron as of next season has appeared in seven games for the national team this season As anticipated by the "Luzerner Zeitung" earlier this morning, the two youngsters of EV Zug will indeed move to Fribourg next season While 21-year-old forward Attilio Biasca put pen to paper on a three-year deal 18-year-old defender Ludvig Johnson has signed a two-year contract describes Biasca as a fast and skilled player: "Attilio benefits from great speed He is also very at ease in the transition game." Zenhäusern sees potential in the youngster: “Ludvig Johnson has all the qualities needed to become an important offensive defender We're convinced he'll be able to take another step forward in our first team next season." This season, his second with EV Zug's main squad Biasca scored four goals and gave out two assists in 21 games collecting one assist in seven games with the Bulls He also recorded 17 points in 14 games with Zug's U20 squad This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The Halifax Mooseheads went back to Switzerland for their latest European pick The QMJHL team selected forward Yannik Ponzetto from Kloten of the Swiss Under-17 League in the CHL import draft on Thursday adding him to a franchise list that includes distinguished alumni Timo Meier and Nico Hischier Ponzetto will take Biasca’s spot in the lineup because the 20-year-old winger is moving on to pro hockey back in his hometown Subscribe now to access this story and more: Subscribe or sign in to your account to continue your reading experience Create an account or sign in to continue your reading experience “(Czech defenceman David) Moravec will be coming back and Attilio won’t be so it’ll be Yannick and David as our Euros next year,” Mooseheads general manager Cam Russell said “Attilio’s going to sign with the pro team in Zug He’s always kind of had an agreement with that organization and that’s how it works with a lot of players there He really thought about it but at this point in his career he felt the best move for him was to play pro in Switzerland.” had 52 points in 34 games to lead the Swiss under-17 league last season plus three points in eight games for Kloten’s under-20 team He also had 21 points in 22 games with Switzerland’s national U17 team Russell confirmed Ponzetto is committed to coming to Halifax and will be in training camp next month “There are a lot of moving parts to this draft especially when you’re picking late,” Russell said skilled player at 50 that is committed to coming over We’re looking forward to seeing him in August.” “He had very good numbers playing in the Swiss U17 league so it’s nice to add a player from that age group and with his skill level plays hard and with good pace and skill so we were excited to get him.” As tough as it is to lose a quality player like Biasca in a year when the Mooseheads plan to contend for a championship His departure means Russell can now acquire a new overage forward to round out his scoring ranks Biasca would’ve had filled both an import and 20-year-old slot “That’s the other side of it,” Russell said “Obviously it’s difficult when you’re looking at 20-year-old Europeans because they take up two spots But we won the Memorial Cup with Konrad Abeltshauser and we just felt David brings such a great presence to the back side Our defence is going to be very deep and solid this year skilled European forward and we’ll be on the lookout for another 20-year-old to add to our roster.” Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page The British Virgin Islands is an explorer's dream with more than 60 isles and cays to discover Expert-backed tips and a step-by-step breakdown to ward off these pests We tried it: Filtrete Smart Tower and the Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool Formaldehyde HP09 transmission or republication strictly prohibited This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy By 2016-08-22T10:00:00+01:00 The Biasca centre will also be responsible for maintenance of existing SBB lines as far south as Mendrisio As well as the emergency facilities and stabling for the rescue trains SWITZERLAND: Simultaneous ceremonies in Rynächt and Pollegio marked the opening of the 57 km Gotthard Base Tunnel on June 1 Switzerland’s entire Federal Council (Bundesrat) was present as were heads of state and government from neighbouring countries and transport ministers from countries along the Rotterdam – Genova freight .. SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways has awarded a consortium of Windhoff Bahn- & Anlagentechnik and Dräger Safety a SFr38m contract to supply three firefighting and rescue trainsets by the end of 2018 The LRZ18 trainsets will be based at Genève SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways is embarking on a major programme to modify long-distance rolling stock for operation through the Gotthard base tunnel it is launching an extensive staff training programme to prepare for the start of operations on December 11 2016 Site powered by Webvision Cloud Switzerland-based pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer Helsinn expanded its Biasca site in Switzerland with a new cytotoxic API manufacturing facility The Sfr20m ($22m) facility is operated by Helsinn Advanced Synthesis The plant began commissioning laboratory projects in mid-2012 The facility is expected to meet the growing demand of cytotoxics and provide a smooth transition to the company into the cytotoxic market Development of this facility began several years ago, allowing the company to save approximately six months of construction and reduce the total investment required. The initial groundwork was laid in 2000, on completion of the high-potency APIs (HPAPIs) facility, the second manufacturing facility at Biasca Facility permits were granted in January 2011 The ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certified Biasca plant has been formed with the merger of Helsinn Chemicals and Helsinn Advanced Synthesis in 2010 Helsinn Chemicals opened in 1983 as the first facility in Biasca The second HPAPIs facility was established in 1999 under the name Helsinn Advanced Synthesis The merged facility is called Helsinn Advanced Synthesis The HPAPI facility was constructed at a cost of $23m (Sfr40m) The facility is a three-storey building with a 71m³ combined reactor capacity installed across five bays providing separate areas for production and maintenance All the reactor bays are installed with one centrifuge within a separate containment bay Separate space has also been allotted to two dryer suites within the facility The facility also accommodates a 600l plant equipped to produce HPAPIs in annual capacities ranging from 1kg to approximately 100kg The new cytotoxic facility is contrast in design to the existing HPAPI production facility in terms of layout It includes dedicated space for R&D and QC A small-scale GMP manufacturing area has been made available to produce smaller quantities of cytotoxic APIs for clinical and registration purposes The GMP area can support capacities ranging from a few grams to hundreds each designed to process one product at a time The first production suite is equipped with three reactor units It includes one 250l stainless steel glass-lined reactor and three Hastelloy C2000 reactors; with 250l The production suite can produce up to 10kg a batch The three reactor units also constitute the second production suite Equipment installed includes one 630l stainless-steel one 800l Hastelloy C2000 reactor and one 0.25m³ Hastelloy C2000 filter dryer within a glove box The combined production capacity of the area is up to 20kg a batch The production area of the facility has been designed to operate at temperatures ranging between -80°C and 160°C The facility began its production in July 2012 and produces Category 4 cytotoxic compounds with occupational exposure limits (OELs) not exceeding 30ng/m³ starting from 10mcg/m³ the HPAPI facility has been developing category 3 molecules with OELs being in the range of 30ng/m³ to 10µg/m³) The demand for HPAPIs has been rising due its increasing prevalence in pharmaceutical pipelines Due to high-entry barriers in terms of developing expertise including containment contamination prevention and operator safety HPAPI production is emerging to be a lucrative strategy for contract manufacturers Less competition from developing API markets including Asia and Eastern Europe is also prompting contract manufacturers in developed API markets to increasingly focus on HPAPIs Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student Farrah Scears will begin a career in a high-demand field in which only 23 percent are women As a chemical engineer, she will work as a chemical vendor for Buckman Laboratories of Charlotte, North Carolina, specializing in tissue manufacturing. Double majoring in chemical engineering and paper science and engineering at UW-Stevens Point gave her the advantage of a broad-based academic background and working on the campus’ paper machine gave her first-hand experiences “I’m fortunate to have found my passion so young.” According to UW-Stevens Point Professor Karyn Biasca the growing field of chemical engineering has 100 percent placement for UW-Stevens Point graduates Those who major in both take many of the same core courses then have a specialized senior design course for each major Chemical engineering has been offered at the university since January 2016 While paper science and engineering is a specialized field chemical engineering is more broad based and focuses on the processes for large-scale chemical manufacturing these engineers help choose a product’s makeup and design process creating products that package food to keep it from spoiling keep powders from clumping or make paper towels more absorbent “They are basically problem solvers,” Biasca said “They find ways to optimize the manufacturing process to become more efficient less expensive and more sustainable to create a valuable product while increasing the profit margin.” Scears has always loved chemistry and learning what everything was made of her academic journey started at Kellogg Community College then she went to Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo While interning at Kimberly Clark in Appleton who told her about the school’s smaller classes and more personalized program After speaking with Biasca and visiting the campus “I fit in at UW-Stevens Point so well,” she said the genuine people – I felt so at home here.” Scears found a mentor who helped her transfer credits drove her to classes when she broke her leg at the beginning of the semester and worked closely with her as she made decisions about her career choices “What she saw in me was more than I saw in myself,” said Scears “I’m happy with who I am because of what I learned at UW-Stevens Point.” “Her presence has made a tremendous difference for the programs,” said Biasca “Farrah has consistently been among the first students to step up and volunteer to help or participate in any activity The sky’s the limit for this young woman.” In just two years on campus, Scears formed a chapter of the Society of Women Engineers at UW-Stevens Point, and worked for the Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology (WIST) She was a member of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) and the American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) the Outstanding Chemical Engineering and Paper Science and Engineering Award the Chancellor’s Leadership Award and the Albertson Medallion Both Biasca and Scears say there is a long-term need for chemical engineers gadgets and chemistry may enjoy chemical engineering personal attention and several internship experiences “Chemical engineering is a great field,” Scears said “It gives you a big responsibility and is very rewarding It is the best feeling knowing you are making the world a better place — even if it is through better toilet paper.” Share how you or someone you know is contributing to the inspiring work at our public university campuses throughout Wisconsin Share Your Story universityrelations@wisconsin.edu © 2025 Board of Regents - University of Wisconsin System — The Eureka Police Department is investigating a hit-and-run traffic collision on Broadway that ended with a car into a building and the suspect(s) feeling the scene The crash occurred Tuesday just after 8 p.m. the driver veered off the roadway and into Don's Rent-All business The following surveillance footage was provided to North Coast News however it appeared the driver and any possible occupants fled It's unclear if anyone in the vehicle was injured The collision caused significant damage to the Don's Rent-All building as well as to a power pole and street sign North Coast News reporter Dania Romero went LIVE on Facebook immediately after the crash occurred The incident damaged the traffic pole at Broadway and Washington streets in Eureka The city put out a traffic alert for drivers Wednesday morning Caltrans and the fire department all responded to the scene to assess the damage and clear the roadway Tuesday Pacific Builders andAmbrosini & Sons Electric also responded to assist with the repairs On Wednesday morning professionals strategically removed the vehicle while protecting the integrity of the structure North Coast News reporter Austin Castro revisited the site of the collision and spoke with Biasca Wednesday your offers to help are overwhelming," Biasca wrote on Facebook 8 for the full report and interview with Don's Rent-All « OBITUARY: William ‘Merlin’ Lake, 1928-2022 OBITUARY: Edward Hackett Fitzgerald, 1950-2022 » The obituary above was submitted on behalf of Jonas Lindblom’s loved ones. The Lost Coast Outpost runs obituaries of Humboldt County residents at no charge. See guidelines here The Halifax Mooseheads continued to revamp the roster in a big way on Monday afternoon by adding Centre Attilio Biasca with the 5th overall pick in the CHL Import Draft Biasca is a 17-year-old native of Switzerland where he played for Zug U20 in 2019-20 Biasca (2003-03-18) was second in team scoring with 29 points (17 goals He added three more points in three playoff games The left-handed shooting 2021 NHL Draft eligible Centre stands 5-foot-11 and weighs 190 pounds General Manager Cam Russell says Biasca has been his target for several months following his annual European scouting trip “He has great vision and extremely good hockey sense He has flown a little bit under the radar but we are really thrilled to get him I think he will open a lot of eyes here in Halifax.” 65th overall with forward and Mooseheads Rookie of the Year Senna Peeters already on the roster The team has cut ties with forward Marcel Barinka to make room on the roster for Biasca Welcome to Halifax Attilio????????#GoMooseGo #CHLImportDraft A post shared by Halifax Mooseheads (@hfx_mooseheads) on Jun 30 Halifax has had plenty of success in recent years with forwards coming out of Switzerland Russell selected Timo Meier in 2013 and Nico Hischier in 2016 Meier went on to be taken ninth overall by San Jose in the NHL Entry Draft while Hischier was the first overall pick by New Jersey Biasca is the latest in a long list of forwards added to the roster this offseason including recently acquired forwards Zachary L’Heureux The team also selected forwards Markus Vidicek Jordan Dumais and James Swan in the first two rounds of June’s QMJHL Entry Draft There is no scheduled date for the 2020-21 QMJHL Regular Season to begin due to the Covid-19 pandemic Check the website and follow the Mooseheads on Twitter Instagram and Facebook for the latest information HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis launches as an independent business 2022 – HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis SA (the “Company”) a full-service contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) delivering high-quality personalized solutions to its healthcare clients today announces its launch as an independent business Originally established as part of the Helsinn Group by the Braglia family under the name Helsinn Advanced Synthesis SA independent company reflects the growth of the Company over the past years and a desire to fully focus the Company on delivering the best CDMO standards to its healthcare clients As a subsidiary of the newly formed 3B Future Holding SA (also wholly owned by the Braglia Family) and supported by a team of passionate senior executives with extensive experience and skills in contract manufacturing for the pharmaceutical industry HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis believes it is well placed to serve its clients as an innovative and technology-advanced manufacturing plant The Company’s executive team will remain in place and Waldo Mossi has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer who has been with the Company for 27 years has led the Company as General Manager for the past 8 years HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis’ dedicated team will continue to offer exclusive including the development and manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) High Potency APIs (HPAPIs) and anticancer compounds and to support its clients with their analytical and regulatory requirements the Company has always strived to deliver a cutting-edge service to its clients on their major projects and has done so by investing in innovative technology within its plants while striving to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis intends to build new laboratories to further strengthen its pharmaceutical offering and to anticipate future regulatory requests To view the new HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis website, please follow this link. commented: “We are thrilled to announce this exciting next step for HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis Having spent the last decade developing our facilities with investment totalling over CHF 100 million we are excited by the prospect of supporting our clients and all of their manufacturing needs as an independent business Our passion to deliver the best outcomes will remain unchanged underpinned by the experience and know-how synonymous with our team I feel honored to serve as CEO and to have been given this golden opportunity to lead HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis through this important milestone for the Company Chairman of the HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis Board commented: “The Braglia family is proud to see HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis officially launch as a business independent from Helsinn It is a testament to the team’s sustained commitment to delivering tailored solutions to its clients and its focus on quality I would like to personally thank Waldo Mossi for his 27 years of service and am delighted that he has accepted the new role of CEO alongside the HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis Board will form the leadership team to guide the company on its next strategic steps as a leading full-service CDMO delivering high-quality exclusive personalized solutions to its healthcare clients.” HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis is a full-service CDMO committed to providing a reliable The company develops and manufactures Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) High Potency APIs (HPAPIs) and anticancer compounds for its clients from clinical to commercial supply The site is routinely inspected by the FDA Production scale ranges from grams to tens of kilograms for HPAPIs and Anticancer compounds from kilograms up to tens of tons (APIs) in plants fully dedicated to cGMP manufacturing Please visit our new website: https://www.hashealthcare.com For more information:HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis Media Contact Email:   mediarelations@hashealthcare.com For more information, please visit https://www.hashealthcare.com   The 21-year-old forward's contract will expire at the end of the current season "We would like to keep Attilio with us," Reto Kläy, team manager of EV Zug is in no hurry and is still waiting before making a decision regarding his future Attilio Biasca is a product of EVZ's organization and returned to Zug after three seasons in tbe QMJHL in 2023 he has recorded one goal and two assists in eight games Attilio Biasca isn’t necessarily the type of player who grabs your attention with a superstar presence on the ice but it’s a totally different story off the ice The Halifax Mooseheads winger’s personality is on a level all its own in the locker room where he is the team’s conscience and heartbeat The 19-year-old is the captain and he will certainly fill an important leadership role for Team Switzerland at the upcoming world junior championship in Halifax and Moncton “He’s a great human being,” Mooseheads head coach Sylvain Favreau said “He always has a smile on his face every day that he comes to the rink and he’s always ready to work He’s a natural leader and obviously what his national team saw in him we’re seeing more and more of that every day and that’s why he has the captaincy this year “He went through some adversity his first couple of years with us with injuries and other things but he’s really come into his own and plays a big role for us.” After being selected fifth overall in the 2020 CHL import draft Biasca wasn’t able to report to the Mooseheads for the start of the season because of the strict COVID-19 rules at the time it was that year’s world juniors that provided a useful loophole for him National team players were cleared to enter Canada to play in the tournament in Alberta that December so he was then able to fly from there to Halifax when it was over All of the hurdles cost Biasca a huge chunk of his rookie QMJHL season but he still got his feet wet in 19 games Biasca only managed to produce 22 points over his first two major junior seasons but he already has 27 in 28 games this year “He finally got to settle in,” Favreau said “Now he’s comfortable so he’s playing much bigger now He takes pucks wide with a ton of speed in the neutral zone and attacks the net with urgency And he’s a big kid so he’s playing his size He doesn’t mind throwing bodychecks on the forechecks and there are a lot of other little elements in his game now that he didn’t have before are coming through this year Biasca left the Mooseheads last Monday to meet his Swiss teammates in Truro for a training camp They’ve also been playing some exhibition games around the Maritimes and will then head to Moncton for the round-robin stage of the tournament The playoff rounds will be at the Scotiabank Centre “I think we have the best fans in the Q so I know they’re going to be great during the tournament but I’m sure they’ll be great in Moncton too I’m really looking forward to it,” he said We have a lot of returning players so we’re going to be a mature team I think we’re going to be a better team than we were the last two years.” He had a terrific 2022 tournament where he was named one of Switzerland’s three all-stars after producing a team-leading six points in five games while serving as an alternate captains “My personal goal this year is just to do the same thing again,” said Biasca who is from the picturesque lakeside town of Zug “I want to be there for the team and to get to the quarter-finals is a big goal So I just want to play really good hockey and show that Switzerland can play hockey.” Switzerland opens against Finland at noon on Boxing Day The last piece of the Halifax Mooseheads’ off-season puzzle is Swiss winger Atillio Biasca The Mooseheads selected Biasca fifth overall in Tuesday’s CHL import draft and the expectation is he will make a significant contribution almost right away “We’re obviously going to be a very young team so we have to be careful not to put ridiculous or unattainable expectations on any of these kids When you’re coming into a new team or a new league We have to bring them along properly and develop them to make sure we don’t rush them or expect too much He’s going to be here for two or three years.” The six-foot-one forward is a highly skilled player who had 20 goals and 24 assists in 31 games for the Zug Under-17 team in Switzerland last year “He’s an offensive playmaker,” Russell said We saw him play last year and I really like the way he plays With limited experience up front and no veteran first-line forwards on their roster Biasca will get to grow at the same rate as the team’s other young core players The Mooseheads are still in the early stages of a comprehensive rebuild so he will likely get top minutes and also see time on the team’s No “We can say we started (our rebuild) back in December when we decided to make the moves we did,” Russell said “We’re really happy with how it’s gone so far The midget draft went really well and now the European draft has gone great too so we’re excited about where we’re going to be for the next couple of years Sometimes it’s a long process but it’s exciting too They’re a lot of great young players coming to Halifax now that the fans should be excited about watching for the next couple of years.” Because they finished in second-to-last place in the QMJHL last year The import draft is a combined event with the Ontario Hockey League and Western Hockey League so the only QMJHL team to pick ahead of the Mooseheads was the Bathurst Titan at No The high position was a significant factor in landing a player with Biasca’s credentials “He was the guy that we wanted right from the start,” Russell said He was born in 2003 so he’ll play as a 17-year-old this year “It’s tough sometimes when you draft these kids and they come and they’re done the next year It’s tough to build around them so we’re really excited to get him at his age.” It also didn’t hurt that Biasca had a reference from a former Mooseheads star “It’s funny because he and Timo (Meier) have the same agent so that’s how we found about him at the start,” Russell said “It helps when you have players like Timo and Nikolaj (Ehlers) and Nico (Hischier) come over here from Switzerland and Europe and then explain to these kids how great an opportunity it is “I’ve said it before but guys like that are our best ambassadors and they’ve helped us out a lot over the years.” Russell is confident Biasca will report to the Mooseheads’ training camp in September with the understandable qualifier that no one can predict exactly what the pandemic will look like two months from now “This kid’s been excited about this for a while,” Russell said “He’s been looking forward to this so today’s an exciting day for him and for us Everything’s good with that side of it and eventually we’re going to get through this pandemic and hockey’s going to be on again Yannik Ponzetto knows all about the Swiss pipeline to Halifax Switzerland is well aware he’s following in the footsteps of Mooseheads legends Timo Meier Meier and Hischier both used Halifax as a springboard to NHL stardom and Biasca will play professionally back home this season after captaining the Mooseheads last year That track record added even more enthusiasm to Ponzetto’s outlook as he crossed the Atlantic this year to further his hockey career “I talked to Attilio Biasca about it and he is texting to me a lot,” Ponzetto said after his first training camp practice on Sunday “We have a really good relationship now and he tells me a lot of things that are helping me “He told me a lot about the downtown and the rink and the fans At home we don’t get this many fans in our under-20 and under-17 games I’m really so excited to be here for that.” Camp starts tomorrow but Yannik Ponzetto couldn’t wait any longer. Welcome to Halifax Yannik! #GoMooseGo 🫎 pic.twitter.com/n334vI2G1f — Halifax Mooseheads (@HFXMooseheads) August 18, 2023 Ponzetto confessed to knowing ‘nothing’ about Halifax before his arrival on Friday but wasted little time getting familiar with his new surroundings “My billets took me downtown Friday night and they showed me the rink and everything,” Ponzetto said I had never seen something like that before The downtown is crazy and the city is unbelievable Ponzetto also did some video research about his new team and home rink after the Mooseheads picked him in the first round (50th overall) of this summer’s CHL import draft “I watched two playoff games against the Quebec Remparts,” he said “That got me so excited to be here and to play for this team The six-foot-one 17-year-old looked athletic and shifty in his first on-ice sessions at the RBC Centre in Dartmouth and he’ll be given every opportunity to excel in his first year in the QMJHL The competition for openings on Halifax’s second and third lines is wide open and Ponzetto has the pedigree to nail down one of those spots He produced 52 points in 34 games last season in the under-17 league back home and was one of Switzerland’s top players at the recent Hkinka-Gretzky Under-18 world championship in Czechia and Slovakia Here is Yannik Ponzetto’s goal that made it 1-0. #hlinkagretzkycup pic.twitter.com/XXid65GG5v — Steven Ellis (@SEllisHockey) August 1, 2023 “I had a lot of points in Switzerland but I can also work hard,” Ponzetto said I think I’m a fast skater and when I have the puck I like to attack the goal That is what I would say about the way I try to play.” Ponzetto enters the season as a potential mid-round pick for 2024 NHL draft 1 overall in 2017 after just one season in Halifax and Meier was ninth overall in 2015 “I wanted to play in Canada so I could improve myself and maybe get drafted this year,” Ponzetto said “Halifax is a super organization for that so that’s the plan.” The Mooseheads open their pre-season on Tuesday against the Cape Breton Eagles at the RBC Centre Consolidations and mill closings in recent years may have changed the landscape of Wisconsin's paper industry but that doesn't mean job opportunities are lacking Industry leaders are optimistic that continued product demand will ensure that remains the case long term Both a limited number of people qualified to fill positions in today's high-tech manufacturing world and the impending retirement of baby boomers has opened plenty of positions in paper-making Demand for workers in the skilled trades — plumbers welders — is high and growing as more of those workers near retirement age The jobs hardest to fill are in the engineering fields local communications manager for NewPage's paper mill in Wisconsin Rapids "There are fewer and fewer graduates with the electrical engineering focus and they are in very high demand," Hartley said chair of the Paper Science and Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is well aware of the industry's employment needs which trains students to be engineers in the pulp and paper business has been around for 40 years and is the only one of its kind in the state But more jobs remain available than there are graduates to fill them "A lot of the technical talent in the paper industry is of the baby boomer generation so there are a large number of people in technical careers that are reaching retirement age and there's a real need to backfill the gaps in the paper industry because of all these retirements," Biasca said Employees are moving up to take the place of the retirees Domtar's Rothschild mill already is seeing that Human Resources Manager Susan Hadaway said "In the last two years we've hired 32 production employees and 10 salaried administrative employees and those were direct replacements for retirees," Hadaway said "This year and next year are a little bit slower-paced we'll have probably 20 people retiring each year." An entry-level engineer at the Rothschild mill earns an average annual salary of $64,000 a year Entry-level production employees at Domtar make slightly less averaging about $58,000 by the end of their first year "I mean that's an awesome first-year income," Hadaway said Those types of hands-on production jobs always will be in demand president of the Appleton-based Wisconsin Paper Council the trade association that represents the state's pulp but "you still need people to work on the machines and make sure that the proper mix of water and pulp is going in." "There's people on the front of the (paper) machine rewind them — there's a lot of different jobs you can get with the basic level of training right out of school." mills in the state may not be churning out copious amounts of newsprint or 8-½-by-11 paper — Landin said 85 percent of paper products coming out of Wisconsin are tissue But the paper industry will still be a "viable and dominant component" of the Wisconsin economy with technology you're still going to need toilet tissue paper towels (and) specialty grades; that's not going away," he said Although there's still consolidation in companies trying to do what they do better but I think a lot of the changes and the consolidations we've seen in the past I think we've reached the end of that for us," he said but the products will keep coming out of Wisconsin." Mills still have challenges luring prospective employees into the paper-making field human resources senior vice president at Appvion Inc. notes that younger workers — members of the millennial generation — are showing less interest in work that requires 24-hour shift rotations "Our society is still built around 'day work' with social activities in the later afternoon and evening," Arent said "Working second or third shift definitely interferes with this It's the number one reason people cite for not being interested." There's also a perception that the paper industry is not as "sexy" as others "We're spending a lot of time and energy on the college campuses to show this is a great industry to be in but people perceive the paper industry as not as secure as maybe electronics "I think we have to work harder at getting the message out that the paper industry is a great place to spend your career." Bob Dohr can be reached at 715-845-0660. Find him on Twitter @BobDohr1 Sylvanie-USA TODAY SportsArizona Coyotes forward Matias Maccelli will miss the next six weeks while recovering from a lower-body injury currently ranks second among all National Hockey League rookies with 22 points in 30 games this season His 19 assists lead all first-year NHL players The Coyotes received some bad news this weekend.Rookie forward Matias Maccelli, who was injured in Friday's win against LA, will miss 6 weeks with a lower-body injury.Maccelli is second among NHL rookies with 22 points. https://t.co/1i2I3ybvuY The 5’11” left wing suffered the injury in Arizona’s 2–1 shootout win over the Los Angeles Kings on December 23 playing less than three minutes in the first period before leaving the game The Coyotes originally selected Maccelli in the fourth round (No Finland product made his NHL debut with the Coyotes in 2021–22 after a spectacular AHL rookie season with the Tucson Roadrunners Maccelli might have been one of the top contenders for the Calder Trophy before suffering this injury which will likely deal a significant blow to his chances With both Maccelli and Liam O’Brien now injured the Coyotes have just 10 healthy forwards on their NHL roster and should soon make some calls to Tucson Through his first 53 NHL games with the Coyotes Assuming he remains on his current recovery timeline Maccelli could feasibly return to the Coyotes’ lineup sometime around the NHL All-Star Game in early February The Coyotes will return to action on December 27 when they host the Colorado Avalanche at Mullett Arena in Tempe mind you; that would hardly be very notable This sunflower is a solar sunflower that combines both photovoltaic solar power and concentrated solar thermal power in one neat aesthetic package that has a massive total efficiency of around 80 percent a Swiss invention developed by Airlight Energy uses something called HCPVT to generate electricity and hot water from solar power HCPVT is a clumsy acronym that stands for "highly efficient concentrated photovoltaic/thermal." In short it has reflectors that concentrate the sun—"to about 5,000 suns," Gianluca Ambrosetti Airlight's head of research told me—and then some highly efficient photovoltaic cells that are capable of converting that concentrated solar energy into electricity Airlight/Dsolar are behind the Sunflower's reflectors and superstructure The two constituent technologies of the Solar Sunflower—concentrated solar thermal power and photovoltaic solar power—are both very well known and understood at this point is that it combines both of the technologies together in a novel fashion to attain much higher total efficiency as this will take a little bit of explaining Airlight has tried a variety of different reflector materials but it looks like they have finally settled on aluminium foil which isn't prohibitively expensive and has very high reflectance Aluminium foil does need additional material to protect it from the elements The Sunflower has six "petals," each consisting of six reflectors At the focal point of the 36 reflectors there are six collectors The collectors are where most of the magic occurs each collector has an array of gallium-arsenide (GaAs) photovoltaic cells GaAs is much more efficient at converting sunlight into electricity (38 percent in this case space is at a premium: the sunlight is only focused on a very small region so you need to use the absolute best cells available The GaAs array in each collector only measures a few square centimetres and yet it can produce about 2 kilowatts of electricity (so one Sunflower generates about 12kW of electricity in total) The GaAs cells used by the Sunflower have a max operating temperature of around 105°C when you focus the power of 5,000 suns on a single point Airlight told me that they used the reflectors to melt a hole in a lump of iron (which has a melting point of 1538°C); during another test the reflectors were misaligned and "we had molten aluminium dripping everywhere." How then do you stop your collectors turning into very expensive puddles of molten metal IBM has been working on advanced methods of liquid cooling but also to reduce the amount of waste heat (getting rid of it increases efficiency and reduces costs) there's a water block (a lump of metal with some channels for liquid to flow through) Heat is transferred from the computer chip to the liquid and then carried to the radiator and released into the atmosphere This is inefficient for two reasons: there's a limit to how much heat can be "picked up" as the fluid passes through the block; and the heat being radiated into the atmosphere is wasted IBM solves both of these problems with its hot-water cooling technology. First, instead of the hot water passing through a radiator and venting the thermal energy out into the atmosphere, the hot water is simply used as hot water: to heat homes, or to drive industrial processes, such as desalination, pasteurisation, drying, cooking, etc. IBM already has an example of this in Aquasar where the hot water is used to heat university buildings to increase heat transfer from the chip to the water IBM has replaced the dumb ol' water block with a piece of silicon with microfluidic channels which is then stuck to the back of the computer chip like a tiny water block has thousands of tiny channels that bring the water to within just a few microns of those pesky heat-generating transistors This massively increases the amount of heat that can be dissipated plus all of those discrete channels do a lot better job of dealing with chip hot spots (small regions that are more active than others) than the handful of giant channels in a conventional water block The Solar Sunflower uses this exact same cooling technology—but instead of computer chips those microfluidic slices of silicon are stuck to the backside of those gallium-arsenide photovoltaic cells The cooling system ensures that the GaAs efficiently converts photons into electrons while at the same time whisking away the thermal energy of 5,000 suns The end result is a device that produces about 12kW of electricity along with 21kW of thermal energy (with water temperatures up to 90°C) Neither Airlight or IBM would reveal the exact pricing of a single Sunflower but the fully installed cost will likely be in the tens-of-thousands-of-pounds range—and that's just the first caveat of many concentrated solar power only works with direct sunlight: the reflectors need to be pointed directly at the sun and anything less than totally clear skies will significantly reduce power generation The Sunflower has some control software that automatically tracks the sun but IBM gave me a distinct "no comment" when I petulantly probed them about their ability to rid the world of clouds there's the lack of energy density: the Sunflower is very efficient but it still only produces 12kW of electricity That's enough to power maybe three or four homes—during the few hours of the day that the sun is visible You would need a large field of these things to power a town—and again you'd need some kind of energy storage solution to get through the evenings When Airlight and IBM started work on the Solar Sunflower the cost of bog-standard silicon solar cells was about £1 ($1.60) per watt the cost has dropped precipitously to about 25p (40 cents) per watt—plus the efficiency of silicon PVs has improved and the time it takes to construct the whole thing the Solar Sunflower simply can't compete with hectares of boring-ass silicon photovoltaics While there's very little chance that Switzerland will soon be powered by millions of Solar Sunflowers sprouting from the Alps The Solar Sunflower looks awesome—and in this day and age where companies and hotel resorts are doing everything they can to appear greener even if it isn't the most financially prudent acquisition Putting silicon solar panels on your roof to get cheap and green electricity is one thing—but sticking a huge Solar Sunflower in your front garden so that everyone knows that you're green is another thing entirely Another way of looking at the Solar Sunflower is that it's definitely a niche product—but in a market as large as the energy production and distribution market which is worth trillions of pounds per year If Airlight and IBM can sell 100,000 Sunflowers per year that would equate to around 1.2 gigawatts of peak electricity power output—a tiny fraction of the world's energy production If we assume a single Sunflower costs about £30,000 that would equate to £3 billion in total sales—which is definitely not a tiny amount of money Airlight Energy is planning to sell some Solar Sunflowers to early adopters in 2016 and then ramp up to full commercial manufacturing capacity in 2017 The Sunflower that we saw in Switzerland was a full-size but the final version will look a lot more polished and aesthetically pleasing.