​INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGÍA CELULÓSICA

In 1966, it obtained the Argentine patent No. 146.719 "Continuous Ascending-Descending Digester for Cellulosic Materials", which received favorable evaluations from several foreign companies (Black Clawson - USA, Rauma Repola - Finland and Kamyr - Sweden), endorsing the viability and seriousness of the design that brought together absolutely new features.

His teaching tasks allowed to increase the interest of advanced students of Chemical Engineering to cellulosic - paper issues, getting the incorporation of some of them to the Technological Laboratory as auxiliary teaching of the FIQ and / or internships paid by companies in the sector. In 1968 he obtained a subsidy from the company Proceso de Pulpado S.A. To work on the "Evaluation of a process of digestion called MM" (1968-71).

In 1971 he was awarded a scholarship by the Swedish Pulp and Paper Employer's Federation for a course for paper professionals, sponsored by UNIDO, for four months in Sweden. From 1973 he began to work on a study on "Industrial Harnessing the Vinal", financed by the Federal Investment Council.

In 1975, it obtained financing from CONICET to carry out studies on the production of pulp and paper from sugarcane bagasse, which is the initial stage of a long series of works on the subject, also financed by SECyT and private companies.

By 1976, the expansion achieved by the activity in the area was the basis for the creation of the Institute of Cellulosic Technology (ITC), which is dependent on the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of the UNL, from which he was director until he retired in 1991, continuing until his Retirement as a member of his Board of Directors since his reinstatement to the University.

As an initial specialized teaching assignment he created the course "Introduction to Cellulosic Technology", open to advanced students and novice professionals, which in turn was the basis - in its part of cellulosic pulp production - to an elective course subject Of Chemical Engineering dictated today. He was also in charge of innumerable seminars and internal seminars on specific topics. He taught courses and conferences in different parts of the country, emphasizing his participation as a Visiting Professor at the beginning of the Specialization in Pulp and Paper (1989, 91, 93-94) dictated to professionals in the Faculty of Exact, Chemical and Natural Sciences Of the National University of Misiones. Later he collaborated as Professor of the subject "Basic Aspects of the Manufacture of Cellulose Pulps and Papers" of the Licentiate degree in Chemistry of the FIQ - UNL.

In the course of research, during the first decades he generated and directed a group of disciples, with whom he carried out some thirty works, preferably applied to technological developments of regional or national interest, referring to fibrous materials and / or non-conventional processes, obtaining for this Financing of official bodies and private companies. Among them, the projects "Technological Evaluation of Spontaneous Species in the Islands of the Middle Paraná applicable to Paper Press" and "Contributions for a National Technology in Paper Bagazo Press", referring to the nascent national paper industry for newspapers, some Whose primary technological unknowns were solved in the ITC. The resulting non-confidential reports were presented at national and Latin American technical conferences, obtaining several distinctions.

In support of official centers in regions very distant from the UNL, it has collaborated in the evaluation of the cellulosic pulp suitability of Sarmientos de Vid (CIAT - INTI - Mendoza, 1975-80) and of the Palma Copernicia Alba (Univ. Northeast, 1980).

From the 1980s onwards, it increased the training of existing ITC human resources through the management of a dozen Research Fellows (of Initiation, Improvement and Higher Education of CONICET), of which two doctorates with a thesis under Its management, expanding the thematic basis of the studies addressed, among which we can mention: "Non-Conventional Mechanical Treatment of Bagazo Chemimechanical Pulps", "Chemical and Physicochemical Aspects of Superhinching of Wood in Alkaline Medium", "Adhesives for Panels Wood from Lignocellulosic Materials "and" Agglomerates Wood - Cement ". The results of the research were published in congresses of the specialty at national and Latin American level and began with the publication of papers in international journals with renowned reference in the cellulosic-paper specialty.

Regarding the transfer actions and linking with the environment, Mr. Lossada as Director of the ITC has always been a reference for permanent consultation at the regional level of small and medium-sized companies and even of official bodies, as far as the possibility of realizing different Types of cellulosic enterprises - paper workers, having even carried out a number of specific works of extension and direct support to industrialists of the sector. With his technical and teaching work he generated a recognized academic prestige and theoretical and practical support of the Institute of Cellulosic Technology (FIQ - UNL) among the industrialists mentioned, even at national level.

In the private professional activity, which he maintained simultaneously with his academic performance, he acted in pilot scale experiments on Pulp Disposal and on the Production of CTMP Bagasse in the Escher Wyss (Ravensburg, Germany, Germany, 1972) and Bauer (Springfield, USA -1982) respectively.

The UNL appointed him Honorary Professor in 1994, in recognition of his academic, scientific and relationship with the environment in cellulosic - paper themes.

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