May 12 – 14, 2025 – Eastman Chemical Company

Kingsport, TN – MeadowView Conference Resort & Convention Center

“Embracing Change – Facility Energy & Environmental Transition Challenges”

Registration is open for CIBO’s first in-person conference of 2025 designed to focus on a wide range of policy and technical issues in industrial energy. Included in the May conference agenda, Eastman Chemical Company is partnering with CIBO to offer an afternoon tour of their Tennessee Operations combined heat and power facilities at Kingsport, TN. The Kingsport site is home to the company’s largest manufacturing facility along with its company headquarters. The Tennessee Operations site is situated on approximately 1070 acres and typically requires 3,600,000 lbs/hr (4,000,000 lbs/hr peak) of 600 psig superheated steam and 170 MW (190 MW peak) to power the facility. This energy is supplied by 4 powerhouses containing 17 boilers and 19 turbogenerators fired with coal and natural gas.

AGENDA

Monday, May 12

• 12:00pm – 3:00pm        Registration Desk Open
• 2:00pm – 3:30pm           CIBO Executive Committee and Committee Chairs
• 3:30pm – 6:00pm           CIBO Conference Opens with Presentations
• 6:00pm – 8:00pm            Reception & Dinner – Eastman Lodge

Tuesday, May 13

• 7:00am – 8:00am            Breakfast
• 8:00am – 11:45am          Morning Presentations
• 11:45am – 12:45pm        Lunch
• 12:45pm – 2:00pm          Afternoon Presentations
• 2:00pm – 5:15pm            Eastman Facility Tour
• 6:00pm – 7:00pm            CIBO Hosted Welcome Reception
• 7:00pm                              CIBO Hosted Dinner at Hotel

Wednesday, May 14

• 7:00am – 8:00am           Breakfast
• 8:00am – 11:00am         Morning Presentations
• 11:00am                           Conference Concludes

Registration

Registration is open to both CIBO members and non-members. The conference registration fee covers the full conference: meeting materials and all speaker presentations, breakfast, lunch, receptions and dinners. Please visit the event website here to register. Registration is required to attend.

Sponsorships and exhibit booths are available at the conference, please check the sponsor and exhibit option at registration.

Hotel

The meeting will be held at the MeadowView Conference Resort & Convention Center (1901 Meadowview Parkway, Kingsport, Tennessee 37660). CIBO’s room block rate is ($165/night). To book your room click here.

The hotel offers an airport shuttle, available upon request by contacting the hotel. Tri-Cities Airport, is the closest airport, approximately 15 miles to the hotel.

If you have any questions regarding 2025 PTIC I registration or the conference in general, please reach out to Alex Stoddard, astoddard@cibo.org, or Courtney Groff, cgroff@cibo.org.