The "Control Systems" Conference is an international meeting in the area of process measurements and controls and systems engineering for the pulp and paper industry. The conference series has been given on a regular basis since 1982 (with a few exceptions).

The series was started by Lennart Eriksson and Sven Gunnar Edlund at STFI in Sweden. Soon SPCI, (the Swedish Society for Paper and Cellulose Engineers) joined in and later also its counterparts in Finland and Canada. Now also Tappi in the US is a part of the organising team.
It was decided that the conference should be arrangad bi-anually and then alternate between Scandinavia and North America.

Read more about the Control Systems History here.

Selected/(Available) documents from the conferences are found on this page.

Below is a list of the Control Systems conferences held and planned, as of May 2022.

 

Year

Date           

Venue           

Place          

Country

1 1982 May 11-14 Folkets Hus Stockholm Sweden
2 1984         Replaced by a track at the "1984 SPCI World Pulp and Paper Week"
3 1986 May 26 - 30 Stockholm Int'l Fair      Stockholm Sweden
4 1988 April 25- 28 Queen Elisabeth Hotel Montreal Canada
5 1990 Sept 18- 20 Helsinki Messukeskus Helsinki Finland
6 1992 Sep 29-Oct 1 Chateau Whistler       Whistler Canada
7 1994 May 31-Jun 2 Stockholm Fair      Stockholm Sweden
8 1996 Apr 29 - May 2 Chateau Halifax      Halifax      Canada
9 1998 Sep 1 - 3 Haikko Manor & Spa Porvoo     Finland
10 2000 May 1 - 4 Empress Hotel       Victoria Canada
11 2002 June 3 - 5 Stockholm Int'l Fair      Stockholm Sweden
12 2004 June 14-18 Loewes Concord Hotel Quebec City Canada
13 2006 June 6 - 8 Holiday Club & Spa Tampere    Finland
14 2008 June 16 -18 Harbourside Hotel      Vancouver Canada
15 2010 Sept 15 -17 "Fotografiska" Museum Stockholm Sweden
16 2012 April 22-25 Sheraton  New Orleans La., USA
17 2014         Conference Cancelled this year! Quebec City Canada
18 2016 April 27-28 Waterfront Hotel     Stockholm Sweden
19 2018 April 15-18 Charlotte Convention Ctr (w/ TAPPI) Charlotte N.C., USA
20 2020         Cancelled due to Covid-19 Stockholm Sweden
21 2022 February 7-8 (w/ PAPTAC PaperWeek, Canada) Virtual (MS Teams) Canada
22 2024 April 9-12 Co-hosted with PulPaper 2024 by PI, Finland Helsinki Finland
24 2026 -Tentatively hosted by TAPPI, USA -  (prepared to host) USA *?
26 2028 -Tentatively hosted by SPCI, Sweden -  Not confirmed? Sweden *?
27 2030    Open   Cda/USA *?