Jeremiah Cotner Email & Phone Number

Pine Bluff, Arkansas Area

Asheville, North Carolina Area

Responsible for a 1,500-1,600 TPD pulp mill and woodyard operation. The operation includes 18 batch digesters, a hardwood brown and bleach line, a softwood brown and bleach line (all CB washers), a 34 tpd ClO2 generator, and a woodyard operation.

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey

▪ Responsible for a $25MM+ operation for recycled plastics which converts raw materials from our suppliers to pellets for in house use or 3rd party buyerso Manage 4 salary and 54 hourly employeeso Facility has 3 single screw extruders, 2 twin screw extruders, 2 washlines, and 2 grinders for processing PP or PET materialo Complete revival and implementation of new safety procedures and processes to bring up to the current industry standardo Improving maintenance department functions by focusing on developing and executing PMs, prioritizing daily maintenance work, and gathering downtime data to improve their focuso Evaluating and developing both salary and hourly personnel to improve safety, quality, and decision making while focusing their strengths to improve executiono Focusing on operational excellence and development of lean manufacturing processes to greatly improve the overall culture of the facility to take everyone to the next level

Chillicothe, Oh

Responsible for a multimillion dollar pulp mill and woodyard operation. o Manage 9 salary and 80 hourly employeeso Manage a $100MM budgeto Continually drive change to improve the pulp mill as well as the woodyardo Drive cost down and improve efficiency of the woodyard operation.

Chillicothe, Oh

Responsible for a pulp mill operation that includes 8 batch digesters, chemiwasher, 3 bleach CB washers, 40TPD ClO2 plant, and recaust area. o Manage 8 salary and 40 hourly employeeso Manage a $75MM budget o Responsible for 3 Process Safety Management areaso $1M+ savings in raw material usage for 2015 & 2016 by focusing on continuous improvement and equipment reliabilityo Constantly driving change and improvements based on data and profitability which are developed and executed by the team o 2016 set a pulp production record - 3,000 tons over 2012 recordResponsible for developing systems and improvements (RCFA, maintenance routes, and personnel development). Also, set expectations to improve training and operator accountabilityo Improved RCFA focus and accountability. Reduced reliability downtime by 50%.o Improved daily digesters from2015 - 58.5 digesters/day to 2016 - 62.3 digesters/dayo Focused on personnel development, expectations, and achievements by developing specific goals for area managers and the technical group. o Focused on improving reliability by improving lubrication and vibration routes. o Drive a culture of operator ownership and accountability. Develop systems and programming for environmental safeguards and cross production unit expectations o Continuous improvement of our environmental safeguards by developing programming improvements that shut down particular equipment before an excursion occurs. o Constantly strive for improving cross production communication by discussing issues with the four paper machines and the utilities group. Setting the expectation for supervisors to have those discussions.

Chillicothe, Oh

Responsible for kiln, causticizing equipment, and NCG incinerator day to day operation. Assist in other areas of the pulp mill as well.