Max Moskal
Principal Engineer

Mr. Moskal began working in the paper industry in 1964 while employed with the Continental Group. In 1983, Stone Container (now Smurfit-Stone Container) acquired Continental, where Moskal was Project Manager of Metallurgical Engineering. Mr. Moskal has been responsible for project activities involving nondestructive testing, corrosion, failure analysis, materials specification, and welding. He has worked on all critical equipment problems in paper mills, including corrosion fatigue of suction rolls, stress-assisted corrosion of boiler equipment, paper machine dryer problems, digester corrosion and cracking, deaerator cracking, and bleach plant corrosion. He has pioneered the use of duplex stainless steel for digesters in North America, and has developed quality and corrosion acceptance tests for welded duplex stainless steel.

Mr. Moskal provides assistance to clients in the pulp and paper industry by helping them understand corrosion mechanisms and solutions to component- or system-specific corrosion problems, including changes in materials of construction.

Mr. Moskal has authored more than thirty papers on materials, corrosion, nondestructive testing, and quality control of pulp and paper equipment. He was a contributor to a chapter on Corrosion in the Pulp and Paper Industry in Volume 13 of the Metals Handbook, and Volume 7 of Pulp and Paper Manufacture. He has also served on the TAPPI Journal Editorial Board.

A member of TAPPI since 1972, Mr. Moskal has served in all chairs of the Corrosion and Materials Engineering Committee. He won the prestigious TAPPI Engineering Division Beloit Award in 1995 and the Leadership Service Award in 1990.