This year’s Tissue World Americas, the continent’s premium tissue industry show, promises to be the best yet! Visitors can expect to see an array of new technology at the exhibition, from machinery through chemicals to services and supplies of every kind.
This year’s conference also promises to be one of the best, with papers from some of the world’s leading experts. A highlight should be the a copresentation by CMPC and Voith on the Chilean company’s new ATMOS machine at the Talagante mill (see article in this issue for preliminary details on this important project).
Below we preview the Miami exhibition. With two months to go before the show takes place, this listing may change, but already most of the industry’s leading companies are booked to be there.
AMEC
Booth 890
With over 50 years of experience, AMEC is a global market leader in pulp and paper projects, having designed and constructed some of the world’s largest and most technologically advanced integrated mills. We provide design, engineering and support services on a global basis and have forged long-term relationships with leading industry clients in North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
AMEC has provided services for close to 60 tissue machine projects, including 12 brownfield/greenfield machines in the last 10 years. Our tissue experience also includes: total production capacity of more than 600,000 tons/yr, including 320,000 tons/yr in the past five years; 50% of total new capacity worldwide; five new tissue/towel lines; conventional and TAD product; AfH and consumer markets; cooperation with technology suppliers Metso, Voith, Andritz.
AMEC uses existing technology and programs to present to our clients their processes in block flow diagrams and analyses the efficiency and speeds of particular equipment to highlight integration issues. AMEC works with clients to upgrade their batch process control systems to a ‘line speed control’ system, which creates a steady-state production.
ANDRITZ
Booth 800
Publicly listed Andritz Group, headquartered in Graz, Austria, is a global market leader in the supply of advanced production systems from wood to paper. Andritz provides a complete paper mill solution with the PrimeLine™, PrimeLineTAD and PrimeLine Compact tissue machine concepts including ventilation and drying systems.
A number of innovations have been introduced by the Andritz tissue machine group.
With the acquisition and integration of Küsters GmbH, Germany (now Andritz Küsters GmbH), experts in pressing and calendering technologies, a new generation of shoe presses for tissue applications, the PrimePress XT, has been developed. The first installation has been applied in a mill in northern Europe.
The new PrimeDry steel yankee is a welded steel and bolted design. It is calculated and designed using state-of-theart methods including finite element analysis. The move into the TAD market has proven to be a success. Andritz has received several TAD machine orders and is making steady improvements toward more economical TAD production.
Andritz is also a leading global supplier of systems and equipment for fibre lines for all papermaking processes, such as recycled fiber processing, stock preparation, paper machine approach systems, broke handling, sludge and reject handling, and internal water loop handling in paper mills.
BRETTING MANUFACTURING
Booth 900
Best total value solutions are the goal as we continue on our lean enterprise journey at Bretting Manufacturing. We maintain a focus on excellence in the way we do business and constant improvement. Our tissue and towel converting equipment will provide the flexibility and durability required to meet your needs.
Our new high speed multifold and singlefold are clear examples of what hard work and dedication to the industry will do. We will continue to be a leader in the interfolder market, with creative and innovative solutions to your needs.
Our industry leading Elite napkin folders provide efficient and reliable results. Our equipment ranges from manual, narrow web machines for short-run projects to fully-automatic, wide-web equipment for high production runs.
Our latest flexographic printing press features gearless operation for repeat flexibility and faster product changeovers. The G-Class printer is a premium, wide-web flexographic press allowing you to differentiate your products and be competitive in the markets you serve.
As a world class manufacturer we believe in one thing - delivering as promised, earning the right to be the customer’s choice.
BRUNNSCHWEILER
Booth 1450
For more than 50 years Brunnschweiler has been dedicated to supplying air technology solutions for the paper industry. Now, Brunnschweiler technology can be obtained more easily in the North American market through its new subsidiary Brunnschweiler USA.
Brunnschweiler supplies a wide range of technology-based solutions for the tissue industry. Our dust removal systems incorporate and improve upon Kleissler technology.
Brunnschweiler is a worldwide supplier of high-velocity hoods for many modern paper machines and our hoods are capable of a full range of operational temperatures. Our advanced hoods have been developed through design collaboration with some of the most important paper mills in the world. Brunnschweiler designs use modern computational tools to achieve the best combination of capacity, efficiency and reliability. Brunnschweiler Hoods can work effectively in high temperatures, above 1200ºF (650ºC), and high air velocities, around 35,000 fpm (11,000 m/min).
We supply mist removal systems and the hall ventilation systems to many tissue plants. One of our most exciting advances in the tissue field is the ability to gain significant savings in fuel consumption. We have been able to use combustion gases that originated in a gas turbine used for generation of plant electrical energy and efficiently reuse this energy in the drying of tissue.
Brunnschweiler combines technological skills and material science knowledge with a customer-focused design approach to bring innovative, high-efficiency solutions to the paper industry.
BUCKMAN
Booth 550
Buckman has created the MAGNOS™ product line of yankee coating chemicals specifically for the ATMOS premium tissue technology developed by our partner Voith. The key benefits are improved sheet transfer and uniform adhesion of the structured sheet to the yankee cylinder surface and finely-tuned creping control resulting in better machine runnability and premium tissue properties. In support of the MAGNOS chemistries, complementary products are available, including wet-end chemistry control, fibre-modification enzymes, Optimyze® enzymatic stickies control and fabric care, and process water treatment.
Buckman Laboratories introduces its new SELECT yankee dryer adhesive system, which provides coating optimisation never before achievable with other yankee dryer packages.
SELECT uses a relatively hard and robust hybrid first adhesive to provide uniform coating and superior yankee dryer protection plus high bond strength between the coating and the sheet at the doctor blade. A second soft rewettable coating is used to increase sheet attachment at the pressure roll. Buckman currently has a selection of adhesives to meet varying process demands.
Recently developed enzyme products Buzyme 2535 and 2523S were created specifically to condition the fibre–particularly virgin softwood fiber and recycled fibre–before it is refined. This treatment can improve bonding strength, enhance the refining process, and reduce expensive fibre use, as well as increase tensile, reduce porosity, and improve coating holdout.
CELLWOOD MACHINERY AB
Booth 1100
Cellwood Machinery will have on display its well-known KRIMA hot dispersing system. This system guarantees optimum treatment of waste paper with contaminants such as wax, bitumen, hot melts, colour spots, stickies and laser print. The special design of discs allows fine adjustment to ensure correct dispersion with minimum energy consumption. We will also show our sequence bleaching system. Grubbens products including pulpers, deflakers, pumps and high density cleaners will also be featured.
CFF-FEDERAL
Booth 1440
CFF-Federal has participated for a long time in the development of the Brazilian industry. Founded 14 September 1901, our concentration on the pulp and paper sector started in 1955, when the company’s shareholding control was transferred to Black Clawson, a major US pulp & paper equipment manufacturer which introduced its product line in Brazil. Today CFFFederal integrates the latest modern technology, cooperating with the world best engineers in the pulp and paper sector.
Located in Rio de Janeiro, the plant has a complete industrial unit that allows it to manufacture, almost exclusively with its own knowhow and with very little third party interference, entire machines and equipment for the pulp and paper sector.
Always seeking to satisfy its clients and counting on the experience gained from manufacturing thousands of pieces of equipment in operation, CFF-Federal is a natural choice as one of the main options when meeting the expansion, upgrade and maintenance needs of your industrial plant. Garrido Paper Mill Division out of Miami, FL, USA, is supporting CFFFederal in its sales function outside Brazil to the rest of Latin America.
CMG COSTRUZIONI MECCANICHE GAMBINI SPA
Booth 490
CMG Costruzioni Meccaniche Gambini S.p.A produces complete tissue converting lines for consumer and away-from-home roll products and single units as printers and embossers which can be inserted in all kinds of tissue converting systems.
Special attention is given to the development of applications which reduce downtime (the new AS unwinder), increase flexibility (the double Eject embosser), and select waste (the recently designed trim core eliminator).
CMG also supplies commercial spare parts and mechanically engraved embossing rolls, and also continues to refurbish or retrofit existing machines.
COLUMBIA MACHINE
Booth 3120
Tissue and towel producers benefit from the performance and handling of any one of Columbia Machine’s floor-level, high-level, or robotic palletisers. Columbia’s palletisers are ideal for poly-bundled products that require soft handling with high-speed application. New turning devices offer mark-free handling with the choice of labelout pallets, making sure your labels are visible from every angle of a pallet. VFDs provide greater control of the braking and acceleration, while still being able to handle multiple lines with one single palletiser. Over 40 companies currently use a Columbia palletiser in their tissue packaging line. With this much palletising experience, Columbia is the expert that will help you meet your palletising needs.
For more than 40 years, Columbia Machine has manufactured palletisers and accessories in the USA. They feature flexible, upgradeable designs and rates over 150 cases per minute. All Columbia palletizers are backed by 24-hour customer support and parts service.
COMER SPA
Booth 3130
Comer produces equipment for stock preparation, approach flow systems, broke lines, headboxes. We are specialised in deinking plant for tissue grades.
Turnkey projects are available, as well as detailed Engineering in 3D and on-field services such as erection and start-up supervision.
CONVERMAT CORPORATION
Booth 740
Convermat is a world-leading supplier of parent rolls of tissue, napkins, towels, wipers, air-laid and other speciality paper grades. Founded in 1976, Convermat is active in more than 80 countries around the world, with major market share in the US, Canada, Mexico and a number of growing and emerging international markets. The close partnership that Convermat maintains with mills and independent converters provides our customers with the strongest sense of security for their long-term requirements.
Our professional staff handle every aspect of the transaction, including transportation and logistics, documentation, technical specification, quality control, foreign currency management, credit financing and post-sales service. Convermat sales management team will be available to answer your questions during Tissue World Americas 2008.
EDSON PACKAGING MACHINERY LTD
Booth 1490
Designer/manufacturer of high performance case and tray packaging systems and integrators of European conveyor automation, we are always aiming to attain high technological standards. Our engineering team, support staff and PMMI-certified field technicians are all focused on the goal of providing the best case and tray packaging automation in the market.
Edson has embraced lean enterprise principles to provide people, processes and operations that deliver the highest value to our customer. All Edson case packers were originally customised by the operator for maximum performance and many have been upgraded along the way with the modern technology available at the time. Our philosophy of providing tailored solutions still lives.
The unique multi-axis servo-case handling automation, matched with either the servobased divider and SCt upstacker or alone with SC-SS downstacker, high-speed KDF Aux.Mag, the SR 3500 & 3600 offer unrivalled performance and flexibility. By listening to our customers Edson new generation SR series are high-performance packaging systems, intuitive in their set-up, able to accommodate all range and product types, and run continuously under demanding conditions.
Our ISO 9001:2000 approved manufacturing and technology center is always open for your visit to experience some of the many solutions that we offer.
EDT
Booth 3110
Enzymatic Deinking Technologies (EDT) is a bioindustrial company specializing in enzyme-based treatments for the pulp and paper industry. EDT's core technology is in the use of enzyme formulations, customised for each mill, to better detach and remove ink and stickies in the processing of waste paper. Improved pulp dirt counts, stickies counts, and brightness enable mills to reduce costs in furnish mix, other chemistries, and energy use, and improve fiber yield while enhancing runnability on the paper machine and in converting.
ELETTRIC 80
Booth 690
Elettric 80 is a global provider of end-of-line automation solutions which increase profitability and efficiency. Due to years of experience, Elettric 80 understands the automation and storage handling challenges faced by the tissue sector: the desire to increase storage capabilities or production levels; the drive to improve operational efficiencies; the need for flexibility to accommodate changes in production cycles; the continuous requirement to achieve higher safety standards and the push for modernisation in the warehouse environment.
Above all, we value our partner approach and are committed to maintaining a track record of supplying solutions which are flexible, durable and provide a long term return on investment. Our proposition is proven and underpinned by continuous investment in research and development and includes palletising robots, laser guided vehicles, high-speed stretch wrappers and pallet-control systems. Our systematic approach is managed centrally by a state-of-the-art warehouse management system. During all phases of the implementation process an experienced team is at hand to assist and advise on the deployment of the solution.
Headquartered in Viano, Italy, Elettric 80 has subsidiaries in the US, UK, Sweden, Australia and Poland, and is therefore able to offer customers local expertise coupled with international insight.
FLOW AUTOMATION
Booth 1020
Flow Automation offers several types of water-jet solutions for a variety of applications. The major benefits of waterjet slitting are: dust-free cutting; higher cutting speeds; reduced downtime; and increased safety. Water-jet slitting significantly reduces operating costs and improves profitability. Many users have seen a return on investment in less than a year.
Slitters - multi-headed slitters have been installed for products from tape to drywall. The two big advantages are dust-free cutting and high production uptime. The cleaner cut means a safer environment and less time spent on housekeeping/fire prevention. Flow Automation builds fully automatic units with PLC controls that can process a wide range of finished product.
For more information on Flow’s Waterjet technology and how to put it to work for your operation, please call: Harald Grunenberg, (905) 681-8575, ext. 338 or e-mail: hgrunenberg@flowautomationcorp.com
HEINO ILSEMANN
Booth 950
Heino Ilsemann offers tailored packaging solutions for the overwrapping of tissue products. We deliver foil wrapping machines, adapted to our customers' requirements, for napkins, facial tissues, handkerchiefs etc with a combination of mechanical or servo-controlled drives up to a fully servo-controlled foil-wrapping machine.
We are using this event to introduce our new development, the tissue wrapping machine NW-4, to the market. The NW-4 is our economical solution for small and medium size production capacities. The capacity runs up to 60 cycles/min.
The combination of the servo and kinematic technologies allows for quick format changes and delivers an excellent packing quality for various format sizes.
Our range of foil wrapping machines is complemented by a wide range of cartoners, case packers, bundlers, palletising systems and full automation systems.
HENKEL USA
Booth 3140
Henkel supplies adhesives for tissue and towel applications.
HERCULES
Booth 1190
At Tissue World Americas 2008, Hercules Paper Technologies and Ventures will highlight latest innovations developed specifically for today’s tissue needs. They include:
• Advanced converting technologies: ProSoft® lotionizing technology, adding functional and handfeel value to tissue products; Dimension™ L1700S converting additive, a revolutionary additive, transforming the tissue product into BATP™, a biologically active, high value, away-fromhome or consumer offering; Dimension™ converting adhesives; a range of high-performance water-based and hot-melt adhesives;
• Superior tissue technologies: ProSoft® softener and debonder technologies, providing novel chemical solutions to softness enhancement; Crepetrol® and Rezosol yankee adhesive and modifier technologies, creating excellence in coating control; Kymene® wet-strength technology, a range of new ultra-high-performance wet strength resins; Hercobond® dry strength technology, proven tissue machine performance aids to meet all the tensile needs of the tissue maker; and
• Process technologies: DeTac® pitch and stickies control technology, building on 25 years of success with detackification technology; Spectrum® ammonium bromide technology, superior microbiological control; Zenix® contaminant control technology, excellence in pitch and deink contaminant control; Presstige® press section optimization technology, unique passivation and solubilisation technologies for felt and roll surfaces; and PerForm® SP process improvement technology, targeting energy reduction.
HINNLI CO., LTD
Booth 1015
Hinnli Co Ltd, a manufacturer & exporter of industrial machinery and whole plant projects for tissue paper converting, has been established for over 21 years. It specializes in machines for: facial tissue interfolder converting; hand towel single v-folder converting; hand towel multi folder z converting; hand towel c-fold converting; toilet roll and kitchen towel converting; tissue paper slitting and rewinding; JRT roll (maxi roll) slitting and rewinding; JRT roll big log saw cutting; napkin and dispenser converting; pocket size producing lines; log saws for toilet rolls (size adjustable); log saws for tissue paper (size adjustable); paper box packaging for tissue paper; wrapping for tissue paper or toilet rolls Its export markets include Middle East, North and South America, southeast Asia, Europe as well as the other areas in the world. If you have any questions, please call Dr Ibrahim El-Hinn on +886-932-036-587.
HONEYWELL
Booth 410
The tissue industry is a highly competitive market place with unique requirements due to high production speeds and light basis weights. This increases the demands on the process control equipment, requiring greater accuracy and faster response, and the need for sophisticated business decision support tools and applications. Honeywell is uniquely positioned to provide a compete portfolio to meet these needs of the tissue industry.
Honeywell is leading the industry in the areas of integrated process knowledge systems, including best-in-class QCS to improve quality and productivity; safety & security management systems that enhance process safety and protect mill assets; a scaleable, wireless infrastructure throughout the mill supporting a variety of wireless devices; and a suite of business applications to profitably manage the complete order-to-cash cycle for the company. Honeywell has precision quality sensors and coordinated, multivariable control solutions designed specifically for tissue machines, allowing you to reduce costs, be agile enough to respond to customer demands profitably, and earn customer loyalty by consistently meeting commitments; ultimately giving you an advantage over your competition.
With this comprehensive portfolio, Honeywell enables tissue producers to improve their business performance through solutions that drive safety, quality, reliability, and efficiency.
ICHIKAWA NORTH AMERICA, INC
Booth 440
Ichigawa specialises in papermaking machine clothing. It aims to continuously disseminate our high-performance products to the world. Its products, papermaking felts and shoe press belts, are key elements in determining the productivity and quality of paper. Ichikawa enjoys a worldwide reputation in the papermaking market, and our newest revolutionary tissue and towel felt design is helping tissue makers improve productivity and reduce costs.
IKS KLINGELNBERG
Booth 1000
Almost everything that we pick up today has been cut or carved by some tool and in all probability, somewhere along the line, a blade produced by IKSKlingelnberg Group would have been used. The company produces blades and saws for a whole variety of different purposes.
The group is one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of machine blades and saws in almost all branches of industry, including paper, wood, metal, plastic and recycling.
In Germany, the group owns three specialised production plants in Remscheid, Geringswalde and Bargteheide as well as two works in Austria, two more in Finland and one in China. The production works in Remscheid, which is also the group’s headquarters, was extended this year creating further employment for this region.
For the tissue industry the company supplies: log saw blades, lubrication system, lubricant, grinding stones, perforation and anvil blades, packaging blades, slitters. Additionally we offer technical seminars and best practices.
INTERNATIONAL KNIFE & SAW (IKS)
Booth 1140
Tissue mills must stay up and running with minimal downtime due to premature knife failure. Our technological advancements in material compositions, surface coatings, production methods and manufacturing tolerances have led to our success in supplying industrial machine knives and saws of outstanding quality to the tissue converting industry. With each application, our team of experienced professionals provides practical advice and cost-cutting solutions to individual problems. We match the proper knife to the application and recommend material compositions, tool geometry, and even alternative cutting concepts.
At our facility in Florence, SC, US, we manufacture the highest quality log saws and perf blades in the industry and employ some of the world's finest craftsmen. Our facilities in Queretaro, Mexico, Granby and Toronto, Canada, as well as our European and Asian authorised distribution centres stock a full range of our products.
Product scope: log saws; perforator blades and carbide anvils; lubricants and spray systems; grinding wheels; perf wheels and carbide anvils; steel rule; slitter knives; bottom anvils; core saws; creping blades; core slitters; square edge cut-off knives; toothed knives; wrapper knives; band knives; creping blades; surface coatings for all IKS cutting tools.
KEMTEC SrL
Booth 990
KEMTEC SrL specialises in providing consultancy and solutions to chemical-related problems in papermaking processes, supplying chemical aids at the highest efficiencyto- price ratio.
The company is engaged in constant research to upgrade processes and its approach to customer plants is a strictly global one. We always look at the whole picture, trying to detect and fix root-causes of inefficiencies, in order to devise solutions as effective and convenient as possible.
Our aim is to successfully pinpoint actual sources of possible improvement, so as to optimise operating conditions while also avoiding undesirable side-effects. Therefore, chemical treatments are not offered just as partial or momentary solution of an imminent problem, nor as a replacement of an existing product with a simple countertype. That can also be done but, typically, we first study a paper mill's operating conditions, take into consideration current treatments and assess their viability. Most of the time we find treatments that can be fruitfully eliminated or replaced.
After our initial overview is completed, we then suggest changes aimed at improving performance and reducing expenses by supplying the best chemicals at the lowest cost. Contact us at kappa.ti@tiscali.it for your requests.
LANGHAMMER MASCHINENBAU
Booth 420
Langhammer Maschinenbau is a specialist for transport and palletising in converting: transport and distribution systems for unpacked rolls of BRT and HHT between rewinder and wrapper; transport and distribution systems for packs and bundles; palletising systems for bundles and display pallets with speeds of up to 200 packs/minute; and pallet transport for loaded and empty pallets.
LYISH ENGINEERING LTD
Booth 640
Lyish Engineering has been expanding steadily since its conception in 1985 and in recent years has firmly established its reputation as one of the leading manufacturers of top-quality converting machinery for mediumsize converters in the 100-300 tons/month range.
The line of machines includes rewinders, slitters, log saws, carton core, winders, packaging machines and a wide variety of napkin folding machines.
Similar machines are also available for producing dry or wet end nonwoven wipes. Machines can be supplied as standard of can be custom designed to suit the customers’ specific requirements.
MACDERMID PRINTING SOLUTIONS
Booth 475
MacDermid Printing Solutions, a global manufacturer and marketer of rubber roll and sleeve covering for the tissue converting and printing industry, announces the introduction of XL Plast, a new rubber quality range for rubber covering performances in tissue embossing applications.
Thanks to a long experience in rubber formulation and transformation, MacDermid is able to answer converters’ needs, offering products featuring an exceptional lifetime and outstanding performance.
Plasticote 3 and SizeMaster 1 are designed for gluing applicators and fountain rollers, while Press Plast 1 is used for marrying rollers. XL Plast has been developed to fit even better with your needs, in order to increase lifetime while working with aggressive patterns. Competition and globalisation imply an absolute need for product differentiation. MacDermid XL Plast will help you in achieving your goals.
MAFLEX SrL
Booth 1090
Maflex Srl has been involved in this market since 1997 and our production is able to offer a wide range of machines such as automatic and semi-automatic full lines for domestic and industrial rolls, interfolding machines equipped with automatic transfer, palletizing systems and flexo printing machines.
METSO PAPER
Booth 600
Tissue pressing is a critical process that is difficult to perform while trying to maintain important product properties. How can we preserve as much bulk as possible, uniformly, across the width of the web? Alternatively, how can we reach a higher dryness in order to reduce drying cost?
Tissue press technology evolution is directed toward improvement in final paper bulk and softness and the shoe press for tissue has been in commercial operation for some years. With this technology it is possible to achieve a bulk increase of about 10% compared to conventional one- introducing use of the longer shoe press nip against the yankee dryer shell has so far proven to be challenging to say the least.
Metso now introduces Advantage ViscoNip; a new technology for tissue pressing that provides a uniform nip load profile independent of the counter roll deformation complexity. One important advantage is the opportunity to run a wide range of nip loads while maintaining uniformity in the nip. It is also possible to change the profile nip curve to optimise the machine for bulk or dryness. Ask Metso about the successful Advantage ViscoNip commercial installation that is up and running today.
MONITORING TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (MTC)
Booth 975
Monitoring Technology Corporation (MTC) provides products that monitor industrial equipment and processes, utilizing high-speed cameras, vibration sensors, tachometers and other sensors to predict impending failures and to pinpoint root causes. Our customers are able to increase throughput, improve quality and safety, and centerline production.
Tissue manufacturing, converting and packaging facilities produce profits when they can efficiently convert raw materials to valuable end products. MTC’s high speed digital camera and monitoring solutions allow production to pinpoint the root-cause whether in incoming material or their own operations.
NALCO COMPANY
Booth 1050
Softer, stronger, more absorbent–at Nalco, we are committed to helping tissue makers meet their production goals and optimize manufacturing processes. Nalco’s Smart Solutions® for tissue and towel grades will impact every aspect of tissue and towel production, enabling you to run machines faster, cleaner and with better end-product performance. Smart Solutions. You have goals. We deliver results.
NATIONAL ADHESIVES
Booth 795
National Adhesives is a unit of National Starch and Chemical Company, which had worldwide sales of $3.3 billion in 2004. National Adhesives offers liquid emulsion solvent-borne solution and hot-melt adhesives to customers worldwide. National Adhesives’ products are based on polyurethane, acrylic, rubber, ethylene vinyl acetate, epoxy, polyvinyl acetate and starch and dextrin chemistries. National Starch and Chemical Company has its headquarters in Bridgequarters in Bridgewater, NJ, US, and is a member of the ICI group.
NIPPON FILCON
Booth 440
Nippon Filcon has over 70 years experience producing the forming media upon which paper is made. This experience includes phosphor bronze, stainless steel, twisted cable and other variations of metal wire technology and, with the onset of plastics in the 1960s, the development of a broad range of plastic forming fabric designs now used by the worldwide paper industry.
Our manufacturing facilities include plants in Tokyo, Sayama and Shizuoka. We have a combined total of 88 looms (including both endless and flat woven looms), automated seaming machines, and highly sophisticated heat setting and finishing equipment which give us a state of the art capability.
We produce a variety of synthetic fabric designs: single-layers, 1.5- layers, double-layers, 2.5-layers (EX weaves) triple and 3.5-layers. The specifications of these designs can be adjusted so that sheet support and drainage are tailor-made for any paper machine.
We will continue to invest our time and effort to expand forming fabric technology so that we are able to keep pace with the ever changing methods of making paper.
Nippon Filcon products related to paper-making are: forming fabrics for paper making (plastic, bronze, stainless steel); cylinder wire mesh for paper-making and pulp-processing (plastic, bronze, stainless steel); various kinds of dandy rolls; patching kits and patching cloth; ultrasonic hand welders for forming fabrics; tension meters (for forming fabrics); abrasion testers; measuring devices for fabric caliper; and welding tools.
OCME AMERICA CORPORATION
Booth 875
In our continuous quest for customer-friendly solutions, Ocme has developed a new integrated palletising system with packer. This system offers the benefits of compactness, shorter product conveyors and easy accessibility, along with the potential to interface with any type and model of packer in order to palletise all sorts of packaging, from sacks to loose products packaged in the formats the market demands. Increased flexibility is obtained with a system of moving infeed buffers which ensure the product layers are formed so that the finished pallet offers maximum stability, and means that other packing aids such as strapping and inserts are unnecessary.
This solution is ideal for high speed end-of-line palletising applications and gives the manufacturer the opportunity to respond to market demands for ever-changing packaging solutions.
Particular attention has been paid to developing the range of laser guided vehicles for the Tissue sector, where Ocme relied on our long experience and product knowledge to find the most reliable solutions to product handling and palletisation problems, such as those found with loose display packs. Our Auriga LGV offers flexibility and adaptability and has allowed Ocme to introduce many different automatic handling systems in the Tissue sector during the last few years.
OMET SrL
Booth 850
One of the most important and delicate operations in napkin printing machines is changing rolls. In fact, the efficiency of the machine itself depends on the ability to limit waste as much as possible. To tackle the very heart of the problem, Omet has patented a special continuous unwinder that eliminates machine stops. This reduces waste caused by slowing down the machine to change the roll manually and then ramping back up to production speed.
A new unit was launched at Miac 2007 in Lucca. Dimensions of the new unwind unit are only slightly larger than those of a normal unwinder on a napkin machine: the advantage is that this will allow installation on existing production lines without any problems. Furthermore, the unit will be able to work on processing both tissue and non-woven materials. As shown in the graphic above, the Efficiency increase of the line and the associated rise in productivity, by using an Omet’s non stop unwinder, is about 15%, variable changing format and type of production.
PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL
Booth 1110
Pacific International, located in Portland, Oregon, US, is a producer of creping doctor blades and doctor systems. The blades and systems are custom designed for each tissue position. Pacific International offers traditional steel blades of blue high carbon and stainless steels. Pacific also manufactures its own line of Perma=life ceramic edge creping doctor blades which offer increased lifetime and creping benefits. The Perma=life blades are custom designed for each tissue machine and eliminate the need for regrinding and handling used blades.
Pacific International offers its own line of replacement doctors and doctor systems. A Pacific technical representative can work with mill personnel to determine the most efficient doctoring methods for each tissue, or paper machine position. There are many machine efficiency issues which can be achieved in analyzing the machine doctor positions, and which are often overlooked in normal machine down periods. Pacific International has representation world wide and can be contacted by going to our website: www.Pacificintnl.com, or calling from North America 800 343 4265.
PAPER CONVERTING MACHINE COMPANY
Booth 590
There’s a new energy at Paper Converting Machine Company. All around our company, all around the world, on the faces of all our team members. It’s showing up everywhere–in our people, in our products, and in our performance.
Our people provide the most extensive support in the industry. Application engineers who go the extra mile–right to your site for proper installation, start-up and system integration. Our service technicians show up with more than just tools. They make the effort to know you and your operation, empowered to do whatever it takes to optimise your systems.
Our precision-engineered products are the industry standard for robust reliability. Our latest innovations provide ultimate cycle rate, flexibility and productivity. It’s in the way we design and build with a passion for craftsmanship and long-term value. It’s our forte.
Our performance is about results. It’s the innovative new ways we’re helping our customers get leaner, reduce waste, and improve product quality.
We understand it takes the total package to do the job today. Our people, our products, and our performance. Now more than ever that’s the PCMC difference.
PIERETTI
Booth 540
As a worldwide leading company in the production of tissue core board, Industria Cartaria Pieretti is situated in the world-renowned Lucca paper district, in Italy. Its history dates back to 1924 and since then it has expanded its market throughout the world. A state of the art research and development department supports the whole business of icP: the CoreLab, founded in late 2005. This laboratory is embedded in the company itself and its mission is to support the innovation of the tissue field.
The brand-new UniCore is the last mission accomplished by CoreLab: the one-ply tissue core board. It ensures to converters great savings in terms of organisation and materials and it highly simplifies the production of tubes.
One of icP's strengths is its readiness in taking care of the customers: their satisfaction is the main target and the main asset of the company. IcP shows up in the most important tissue fairs in the world to be always on the market and to fulfill the arising needs.
IcP shares the values of personal and environmental safety, making it a point in its production policy.
PREMIAIR TECHNOLOGY INC
Booth 1195
PremiAir Technology will present the latest in tissue drying–The Ultra Hood™. The state-of-the-art hood is capable of operating at any temperature up to 650ºC (1200ºF). The Ultra Hood™ offers an exceptionally high drying rate, low power consumption, improved softness and bulk and many other operating pluses.
PremiAir Technology is a manufacturer of low, medium and high performance yankee hoods, process air systems, dust control systems and heat recovery systems. All the hoods, whether steam heated, oil and/or gas-fired, use advanced drying technology for all types of applications. Let us discuss your future requirements.
PR FTECHNIK SERVICE, INC
Booth 775
Misalignment is a word that runs through every maintenance worker’s mind. Some of the issues caused by misalignment are: wrinkling; unplanned down time; unwanted paper tears; tracking issues; time and money. Still, preventive measures are often neglected. The Paralign®, is a new technology that stems from space navigation which uses three ring laser gyroscopes to map out the position of rolls in space and instantly produce a graphical report of the condition of the machine.
Conventional optical systems such as theodolites require a lot of time to perform a measurement. The necessary optical line of sight from the machine axis to the rollers to be measured can sometimes only be obtained by means of additional mirrors and prisms. The repeatability of measurements is thus limited or the measurement is even impossible.
Measurements with Paralign®, however, can be performed within a fraction of time compared to traditional measurements–indeed for all rollers to be measured as no optical line of sight from the machine shaft to the rollers is necessary. Consequently the time required to measure rollers within housings–eg yankee cylinder–is the same as for accessible rollers.
Older production lines in the tissue industry run many times faster today than they once did. At the same time, the market has also become very competitive. Therefore the repeated inspection of the alignment of rollers is a must in all production steps in the tissue industry.
RONCO GROUP
Booth 750
The Ronco Group has nearly three decades of experience in the tissue industry. With an eye to the ever changing market and new technologies, we continue to offer even more products and services to our customers. Not long ago we began offering the single ply core winder, an economically beneficial alternative to the two-ply and multi-ply core winders. The single ply process saves 17% in board costs and 88.5% in glue costs when compared to a two-ply core winder. The life of the saw blade is extended as well.
Along with the single ply core winder, we offer a standalone one-ply glue unit which is compatible with most core winders.
Not only do we manufacture machinery for the tissue converting industry, we offer industrial services to these facilities as well. We specialise in managing planned shutdowns for all types of paper machines. We have completed projects on time when manpower was short, completed projects days ahead of schedule, and we have one of the best safety records in the industry. For more information visit .
SCHNEIDER PACKAGING
Booth 995
Schneider Packaging Equipment Company’s newest case packers for the paper industry add more automation to the case loading process. The horizontal or vertical configuration case packers significantly reduce operator interface and manual labour by automatically lifting and orienting knockdown case bundles. Muliple 48” (1.2 m) bundles can be staged and are automatically fed into the case magazine, significantly reducing operator interface and potential injury.
Schneider’s HCP horizontal side loader for rolled and folded product has an automatic KDF system with speeds of up to 20 + CPM. Schneider’s VCP bottom loader for napkins and hard wound towel has an auto KDF bundle lift system with speeds up to 18 CPM packing speed.
Schneider designs each packaging machine for optimal performance for its specific environment and product characteristics. Packaging solutions for the paper converting industry include gentle positive product handling for many styles of kraft-wrapped and poly-wrapped rolled and folded products along with the many styles of jumbo roll tissue and hard wound towel products.
Schneider manufactures a complete line of case packers, tray packers, and case erectors along with robotic palletising systems. Schneider offers a variety of ancillary equipment such as cartoners, conveyors, pallet dispensers, shuttle cars, and elevators that can easily be integrated with coding/labeling equipment, product code scanners, weight checking, and stretch or shrink wrapping equipment to provide a complete system solution.
Some of its speciality markets include the food, beverage, paper, replication, industrial and personal care industries.
Whatever the requirements, Schneider works to provide the best solution for any unique need. Schneider Packaging is an authorized system integrator for FANUC robotics. For more information, contact our sales department by phone at (315) 676-3035 or fax at (315) 676-2875, or visit www.schneiderequip.com.
SENIPAK & 9.SEPTEMBAR GROUP
Booth 3150
Our company makes automatic lines for manufacturing and wrapping serviettes and automatic lines for manufacturing and wrapping tissue handkerchiefs. We have exported to markets in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Canada.
After two decades of experience in machine development and production in the area of tissue converting, we would like to present you the newest types of machines for manufacturing serviettes with a print and automatic wrapping, with capacities of 1000 and 2000 serviettes per minute and new generation automatic lines for manufacturing and wrapping paper for handkerchiefs.
The line features are high productivity, excellent quality of wrapped serviettes, automatic counting and computer synchronisation of all machine elements.
SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY
Booth 415
Considering converting to single-ply cores to reduce your paper, adhesive, waste and freight costs? Sonoco, which first began making singleply cores back in the 1970s, has the technical expertise and resources to make your conversion painless. The industry leader in lightweight corestock for tissue/towel applications, and a world-class producer of uncoated recycled paperboard in a variety of grades, weights and strengths, Sonoco has helped many converters and consumer product manufacturers successfully make the switch to more economical single-ply cores. Committed to providing exceptional customer technical service, Sonoco engineers, scientists, technicians and analysts at its four global technology centers work with you to identify, engineer and produce the grade of paper that will optimise your current process and recommend the best adhesive and adhesive application equipment for your facility. Sonoco’s state-of-the-art order fulfilment centres, which combine the latest information and communication technology, provide real-time inventory control, scheduling, tracking and billing, to give you accurate, efficient, responsive service. And with operations in 35 countries, Sonoco has the people to respond to your requests, mill capacity to meet your production demands and reclamation centers to recover your scrap.
THWING-ALBERT INSTRUMENT COMPANY
Booth 1060
Thwing-Albert is pleased to announce the new improvements to its Vantage Tissue Burst Tester. The Vantage Tissue Burst Tester is a precision, PC-controlled instrument that measures the wet and dry burst strength of tissue papers and tissue products, paper towels, and nonwovens.
The Vantage Burst Tester now features a digital load cell controller which eliminates external noise and provides more accurate force readings. In addition, the Vantage Burst Tester can now also be used with both of Thwing-Albert’s software packages, MAP and Simplicity. Standard results provided include burst strength, burst displacement, burst energy, total burst energy and statistics. These new changes make the Vantage Burst Tester an accurate and affordable tissue burst tester.
TIDLAND CORPORATION
Booth 560
Catch the slitting revolution by seeing the world’s first completely electronic knifeholder, the Tidland e-Knifeholder. While you are there, check-out the latest in slitting safety and in quality slitting systems. Also on hand will be the mill-duty reel spool air shaft with a truly ergonomically friendly air valve. The experts from Maxcess International’s family of companies (Fife Guiding and Inspection, MAGPOWR Tension Controls and Tidland Slitting and Winding) will be there to answer your questions about making a difference by upgrading your line’s components.
TISSUE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Booth 670
Tissue Technology provides complete tissue outsourcing solutions as an integrated company providing a comprehensive alternative to the product fulfilment needs of the tissue industry.
It has expertise in all aspects of pulp and tissue processes, tissue manufacturing, and customer contract converting including food service quality regiments and standards.
It provides engineering services in process, building, mechanical, electrical, structural designs, equipment layout and installation. It has project management experience in training, development and implementation, full construction through start-up services, maintenance services, process improvement evaluation and implementation.
TISSUE MACHINERY COMPANY - TMC
Booth 700
TMC specialises in managing tissue products from cutting through to palletisation and offers excellent turnkey integrated solutions, handling the product from the log-saw through to high capacity roll distributors, product conveying systems, roll-wrapping machines, handle applicators, high-production bundling machines for the complete and partial wrapping of the packs, integrated palletising systems for bundled or ‘display’ products, and pallet transport shuttles.
TMEIC GE AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Booth 3100
TMEIC GE has earned a global reputation for providing reliable drive systems to serve the global paper industry. Our highly experienced, service oriented team is committed to engineering solutions that realize unparalleled long range value for our customers. TMEIC GE proudly offers our customers industry leading technology, exceptional product quality, and world-class application expertise. We deliver customer success, every project, every time.
This year we are featuring our TMEIC GE Roadshow which has been created to bring TMEIC-GE demonstration equipment directly to our clients so they can see first-hand the advantages of our innovative technology. These advantages include the industry leading GE Control System Toolbox, Heat Pipe Cooling that extends the life of the inverters and converters, Power Phase Modules on draw-out guides, low power inverters, (less than 140 hp), in a stacked assembly with each inverter in a drawer.
You will also see the new DC drive and the Digital Front End for DC Drives that allow quick modernization of existing DC drive systems with digital control and diagnostics at a fraction of the cost of a new drive system.
TREBOR
Booth 450
Trebor is the world's largest independent marketer of parent rolls of tissue, towel, napkin and wiper stock. Trebor has the ability to respond rapidly to customers' requests, drawing on an expertise which enables us to sell tonnage to converters and paper mills quickly, in an orderly fashion, and in virtually any volume.
UNGRICHT ROLLER + ENGRAVING TECHNOLOGY
Booth 470
A+E UNGRICHT is family owned, has 300 employees for constructing, manufacturing, engraving and finishing rollers from very small to diameter of 1000 mm and a face width of 9500 mm. We have integrated the production possibilities of the former companies Messrs Jean Hiedemann and Messrs Overbeck.
This combination of knowhow, production techniques and experiences has enabled us to specialise in the embossing of hygiene paper: steel-tosteel for handkerchiefs, napkins and toilet paper; steel-to-paper (repeat embossing and wild embossing); steel-to-rubber (single-gap embossing); top-to-flat for handkerchiefs and napkins; nested for kitchen towel and toilet paper; top-to-top for kitchen towel, toilet paper and napkins; thermobonding; knurling wheels in special executions; development of special designs for special applications and customer demands; embossing units/embossing cartridges for above listed applications; anilox rollers.
The production methods ‘top to top’ and ‘nested’ demand an exceptionally high degree of accuracy of engraved detail on the pair of rolls which we achieve by having developed a new technique which gives perfectregistration of detail-roll-to-roll.
At the exhibition we show new state of the art engraving designs and technologies. For your service Artur Koslowski and Jürgen Wellens will be available.
VALLEY TISSUE PACKAGING
Booth 925
Since 1984 Valley Tissue Packaging has become one of the leading packaging equipment manufacturers designing equipment specifically for the tissue converting industry. The partnership formed with its customers has led to innovative equipment that significantly reduces operation costs at all levels, and surpasses previous production goals.
The experience gained through the years along with the ingenuity of its engineering department gives VTP an edge in applying the latest technology to produce machinery that is easy to use while maintaining quality and efficiency, at very low maintenance and operating costs. As members of a customer-focused organisation, the employees of Valley Tissue Packaging pride themselves on offering products and services that help their clients successfully present and market high quality tissue products.
Valley Tissue Packaging offers a focused range of machines and services for the tissue industry. With its machinery, Valley Tissue Packaging also offers complete systems engineering, sales support, and expert technical support. The product line includes a series of single-roll wrappers, case packers, bundlers, diverters, single-roll poly wrappers, log banders, and conveyor systems.
For more information, please visit www.valleytissue.com.
VOITH
Booth 650
Voith is a leading process supplier for the worldwide tissue industry. We develop technological solutions that cover the entire tissue production process. Our latest innovation, ATMOS technology, was developed at the Voith Tissue Process Technology Center in São Paulo, Brazil, in close teamwork with Voith Paper Fabrics. Thanks to this development, premium tissue can be produced at much lower investment and energy costs, also saving fiber and even using 100% recovered paper furnish.
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Algas Fluid Technology Systems AS Norway
AMEC, Inc USA
Andritz Inc. USA
Automatic Handling International USA
Bill Roundtree & Associates USA
Bretting Manufacturing USA
Brunnschweiler USA
Buckman Laboratories International, Inc. USA
C.M.G Costruzioni Meccaniche
Gambini S.p.A Italy
Cellwood Machinery AB Sweden
Cognex Corporation USA
Columbia Machine, Inc. USA
Comer S.p.A Italy
Companhia Federal de Fundicã'8bo Brazil
Convermat Corporation USA
Dal Ponte & Associates USA
Double E Company USA
EDT - Enzymatic Deinking Technologies USA
Edson Packaging Machinery Limited Canada
Elettric 80 S.p.A Italy
El Papel/ENP France
EMTEC Electronic GmbH Germany
Fabio Perini S.p.A Italy
Flow Automation Canada
Garrido Paper Mill Divsion USA
GB Embossing Inc. USA
Goldenrod Corporation USA
Green Bay Engineering USA
Heino Ilsemann GmbH Germany
Henkel USA USA
Hercules Inc. USAUSA
Hinnli Co., Ltd. Taiwan
Honeywell Inc USA
Ichikawa North America Inc. USA
IKS Klingelnberg GmbH Germany
Ilsemann, Heino, GmbH Germany
Industria Cartaria Pieretti S.p.A Italy
International Knife And Saw, Inc. USA
Ishmael Associates, Inc. USA
Jim Ochs & Associates USA
Kemtec S.r.L Italy
King Hardware Trading Co Taiwan
KPL Packaging S.p.A Italy
Langhammer Maschinenbau GmbH Germany
LMS Makina Sanayi Ve Tigaret Ltd. STI Turkey |
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Lyish Engineering Ltd Italy
Mac Dermid Printing Solutions France
Maflex S.r.L Italy
Mahlo GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Mari Papel y Corrugado USA
Maxcess International Corporation USA
Metso Paper USA
Monitoing Technology Corporation USA
Nalco Company USA
National Adhesives USA
Nippon Filcon USA
OCME Americas Corporation USA
OMET S.r.L Italy
Pacific International USA
Paper Converting Machinery Company USA
Papertrade Associates USA
Paprima Industries Inc. Canada
Perini Engraving S.r.L Italy
Pieretti, Industria Cartaria, S.p.A Italy
PremiAir Technology Inc. Canada
Proflow Inc. USA
Pruftechnik Service, Inc. USA
R.A. Jones & Co. Inc USA
RISI USA
Ronco Group, The USA
Saueressig GmbH & Co Germany
Schneider Packaging Equipment Co., Inc. USA
Senipak Ltd Serbia
Sorgato S.r.L Italy
Sonoco Products Company USA
Svecom P.E S.r.L Italy
Target Marketing USA
Thwing Albert USA
Tidland Corporation USA
Tissue Excellence Center Inc. USA
Tissue Technology LLC USA
TKM United States Inc. USA
TMC -Tissue Machinery Company Italy
TMEIC- GE Automation Systems USA
Trebor, Inc. USA
Ungricht Roller + Engraving TechnologyGermany
Valco Cincinnati, Inc. USA
Valley Tissue Packaging USA
Voith Paper Holding GmbH & Co. KG Germany
West Penetone Corporation USA |
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Tissue World Americas 2008 Conference
11-14 March 2008, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Conference Theme — Meeting the Challenges in Today’s Tissue Business
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OPENING PRESENTATION
North American Tissue Market Developments and a Look at the Supply/Demand Balance
Esko Uutela, EU Consulting
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Tuesday March 11, 2008–Morning and Afternoon Sessions
PAPERMAKING DEVELOPMENTS
- ATMOS - Technology Features and Performance of the 1st Commercial Machine
Carlos Hirigoyen, CMPC and Thomas Scherb, Voith
- Yankee Drying for Optimum Energy Usage
Ingvar Klerelid, Metso Paper
- Application of Steel Yankees in Tissue Machines
Joerg Bauboeck, Andritz AG
- Chatter and Soft Tissue Production–Process Driven Mechanisms
Sam Archer, Nalco
- Improved Drying Efficiency via Yankee Hood Management
Dominique Thifault, Enerquin Air
- Effective Tissue Web Cleaning and Dust Removal: Dream or Reality?
Heikki Luoma, Metso Paper Ltd
- Press Fabric Enhancement for Increased Dryness and Reduced Energy Use
David Jenkins, Asten Johnson
- Effects of Release/Modifying Agents on Adhesion
Doeung Choi, Hercules
- ADT - A New Process for Making Tissue
Ed Graf, APM LLC
Wednesday March 12, 2008–Morning Sessions Only
SOFTNESS, STRENGTH AND SURFACE IMPROVEMENT
- Softness–Do Customers Really Know What They Want?
Wes McConnell, Asia Pulp and Paper
- Enhanced Fiber Additives for Strength and Machine Performance Improvement
Jagannadh Satyavolu, Cargill
- Enhancing Tissue Paper by Use of Electrostatic Spraying
P. Volf , ChemPro Inc
- A New Measuring Principle for Softness Evaluation
Giselher Gruener, Emtec Electronic GmbH
- Assessment of Tissue Softness Using Ultrasonic Technology
Kenny Corscadden, SoniSys Inc
CONVERTING, PACKAGING, WRAPPING AND LOGISTICS
- Quantity or Quality? Granting Value to Tissue Products
Guido Finocckì, Fabio Perini SpA
- Moving Into the 21st Century with Improved Maintenance Planning
Corben Hoffman, Tissue Excellence Center, Inc.
- Material Handling Automation: Successful Automation of Existing Plants
Bill Nelson, E80
- The Future of Tissue Packaging
Matteo Giardini, KPL Packaging
- Gaining Operational Efficiencies in Converting, Packaging, Wrapping, and Logistics
Jim Pigott, TietoEnator
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Thursday March 13, 2008–Morning Sessions Only
STOCK PREP AND PULPING
- The ShortFlow Compact Tissue Concept
Jon Kerr, Andritz
- The Importance of Fiber Loss and Energy Management in Stock Preparation
Georges Edouard Alexis, Ronco
- Modular Deinking Technology: the Saudi Paper Experience
Marco Pescantin, Comer
- New Opportunities in Refining Pulp Fibres for Tissue Products
Kari Koskenhely, Helsinki University of Technology
- Eucalyptus Pulp for Tissue–From Forest to Final Product
Alexandre Bassa, Votorantim
- Microfilters: Saving Fiber is Only the Tip of the Iceberg
Len Dewhurst, Algas
- Advanced Microbiological Monitoring and Control with New Stabilized Halogen Programs
C. Foss, Nalco
- Enzymatic Fiber Modification in Tissue Manufacturing: A Practical Review
Rosy Covarrubias, Buckman
Friday March 14, 2008–Morning Sessions Only
PROCESS CONTROL AND TESTING
- Tissue & Towel Quality Measurement & Control Advances
Ross MacHattie, Honeywell
- High Speed Digital Video for Improvements in Quality, Efficiency and Capacity of Converting Operations
Ray D. Trudeau, Monitoring Technology Corporation
- Intelligent Decisions for Optimized Productivity
Andrea Friedrich, Parsytec
- Applying Control Systems to the New Air Dried Tissue (ADT) Machine Concept
Darren Honaker, TMEIC-GE
- A New Way of Diagnosing and Preventing Web Handling Problems
Arun Sasikumar, PRUFTECHNIK
- TAD Fabric Testing Apparatus Speeds Development Time
Ian Lang, Asten Johnson
Preliminary program as of 10 Jan 2008
For the latest update and to register, go to www.tissueworld.com |
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