Friday, April 26, 2024

Technical Theme

    Tissue World Magazine, Technical Theme: Chemicals, Converting, Environment, Logistics, Packaging, Paper Machine, and Pulping / Fibre

    Tissue World Magazine

    Intelli-Tissue® machine in China

    China Helen Morris -
    PMP Group has signed a contract with Chinese producer Henan Hulijia Industrial CO to install an Intelli-Tissue® 900 EcoEc line. The Intelli-Tissue® 900 EcoEc machine has a double-press configuration, a design speed...

    Kemira launches KemFlite

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Kemira has launched KemFlite to reduce paper and board machine problems caused by deposits from the agglomeration of hydrophobic particles. The particles originate from wood pitch, stickies or binders in coated broke. Chris...
    Tissue World Magazine

    The technical and economic essentials behind achieving Chain of Custody

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    With consumer demand for sustainable tissue products increasing, tissue producers need to demonstrate to existing and potential clients a firm commitment to sustainability. Here SCA – the EU’s largest private forest...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Nuqul’s Al-Sindian mill sets the standard for environmental and commercial success

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Management commitment to sustainability, employee engagement, enhanced public image, competitive advantage and financial benefits… that’s what taking control of natural resources has delivered for a MENA leader. Waheed Al-Qannas, operation manager...

    Grade specific optimisation: Permanent (PAE) versus temporary (GPAM) wet strength utilisation

    Technical Theme Clay Campbell -
    By Kemira’s Clay Campbell, Harold Goldsberry, Kristin Wittich and Felipe Higa Kemira talks us through the latest chemical technical developments relevant to your business. Historically, it has been quite clear in the manufacture...
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    High efficiency wet strength resin technology breakthrough

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
      Mark Zempel, Georgia-Pacific Paper Chemicals business manager, describes the path to a wet strength resin with step-change performance claims. A TWM report. For many years, wet strength resins have allowed paper producers to take paper...
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    Driving home the message – products from sustainable forests do make sense for consumers...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    In October, Södra was awarded the “Best Sustainable Project/Social Category” at the Sofidel Suppliers Sustainability Award. The award acknowledged the pulp supplier’s “Act of a hero” marketing campaign, which encourages the conscious...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Focus on sustainability

    Environment Helen Morris -
    Retailers and tissue makers focus on sustainability at Tissue World conference in Barcelona: best ever gathering of distinguished speakers A world-class lineup of speakers, including numerous major global retailers, top tissue making...

    Rehabilitating life for existing equipment stems from OEM

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Tissue operations with mature machinery are looking for renewed life from their existing equipment, and determining whether to purchase capital equipment or retrofit existing equipment can be a difficult task. Edson...

    Global Voith launches NipVision

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Voith has launched NipVision, a real time system that makes nip measurements possible while the paper machine is running. The online and real-time measurement tool uses the latest roll cover technology, where...
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    Improved DAF control delivers water savings and minimises TCO. A TW report

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Nalco’s Michael Murcia, Mita Chattoraj, JC Ye, Steve Hoefs Dissolved air flotation (DAF) units are used throughout the paper industry for solids / liquid separation in process and primary wastewater treatment...

    Is there a limit to environmental advancement in tissue’s current industry model?

    Technical Theme Joan Vila -
    By Joan Vila, chief executive of L.C. Paper 1881 A purchasing manager told me recently that we have reached the limits of invention in tissue. He was wrong on all counts –...

    Energy efficiencies, new technology start-ups, emerging market potential, product innovation, softness and strength, customer...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    TWM interviews the world’s leading tissue machinery suppliers to bring you the latest knowledge in our ‘Technical Theme: Paper Machine’. TWM/1 What have been the most important technical developments made at your...

    Chemical technology breakthrough targets significant Yankee Dryer performance improvement

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Thomas L. Wright, technical director, Georgia-Pacific Chemicals, explains how the NAVIGATOR coating programme is designed to operate in today’s demanding environment of high temperatures and low reel moisture. A TWM report. The...

    Tissue and towel sustainability: how next-generation chemicals can enhance sustainable development

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Richard Cho, global marketing director, Solenis. A TWM report. Sustainability is often defined as a requirement of the current generation to manage resources effectively so that future generations can enjoy a similar quality of life. For...
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    Do you laser? In the world of packaging, less is more.

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report. Following PCMC’s acquisition of flexible packaging machinery manufacturer Graphbury Machines in September, PCMC product & applications leader Carl DuCharme discusses...
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    “ Digitisation is key; Our goal has been to focus on R&D that enables...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Matteo Giardini, Global sales director packaging, Fabio Perini Casmatic is the Fabio Perini brand dedicated to packaging solutions that create perfect line integration. Key criteria from customers include: reliability, efficiency, super-fast format change and attention to...
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    Converting technical theme 2019 will be rich in projects to find the leading edge

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    In terms of optimal maintenance and process, analysing what the machines are telling us gives enormous added-value. TWM asked the world’s leading converting machinery suppliers – Fabio Perini, Futura,...

    Pre-stretched film tensioned and tough enough for jumbo roll protection

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Marco Cirigliano, sales and application engineer, outlines why FIS Impianti’s new generation wrap is critical to preserve paper quality, hygiene, and avoid contamination.

    The Challenge – to find a high quality and industry compatible bioplastic

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Plastic – hundreds of millions of tonnes of it every year – has been intrinsic to tissue product packaging. So the urgently needed bioplasticreplacement...
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    Kemira KemView™ Gen II Sheet Structure Analyser for tissue

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Kemira’s Clay Campbell, global business development, senior mgr. Kemira, and Lucyna Pawlowska, tissue process application specialist, Kemira Clay Campbell Senior manager, Global business...
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    Sustainable Product Sales Growing Three Times Faster Than Consumer-packaged Goods Market as a Whole

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    As awareness of the climate crisis increases across the world – especially among millennials - environmentally-friendly production and delivery expected to grow to $140.5bn market by 2023. Report by...
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    Minimise downtime Reduce footprints Increase flexibility

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Tissue World asked the world’s leading converting machinery manufacturers to comment on where their R&D efforts are heading in our annual converting technical theme. MTorres and Maflex responded. A TW report   TW:...

    Van Houtum aims to better substantial value growth in washroom solutions

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Exporting finished product to 25 companies and with annual turnover of €60 million the Dutch niche player is looking to grow through value-increase “We’re a small niche player,” Van Houtum general manager...

    High quality NBSK fibre for premium tissue paper grades

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Paul Watson, director of Canfor Pulp Innovation and Wlad Janssen, specialist on tissue for Canfor Pulp Fibre is the highest single cost element of a finished tissue product, typically more than...

    Carbon benchmarking for tissue manufacturing

    Technical Theme Subhash Deodhar -
    By Subhash Deodhar Globally, tissue and towel production emits more carbon per tonne of paper than any other paper grade. For a product so close to the end-consumer, the carbon footprint of...
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    Will a large project pay off? Decentralised concept with ten palletisers

    Technical Theme Oliver Rebstock -
    By OPTIMA nonwovens’ Oliver Rebstock   In plants with multiple packaging lines, there are two alternatives for palletising hygienic paper products: a single large central palletiser processing off of several lines, or a...
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    Key innovations in the search for perfection on the converting line

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    We asked the world’s leading converting machinery manufacturers to explain where their R&D efforts are leading them for TWM’s annual Converting Technical Theme. Gambini, Futura, PCMC, Maflex and MTorres responded. What events...
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    Strength and softness – how NBSK pulp fibres deliver

    Technical Theme Paul Bicho -
    Canfor Pulp, the world’s fifth largest supplier of softwood kraft pulps, planted 78 million trees in 2015 alone in British Colombia, Canada. Here, manager of innovation and optimisation Paul Bicho explains...

    Just how committed are consumers – and the industry – to eco-friendly products?

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    The strongest motivations fade when set against the cost. Pirkko Petäjä, principal, Pöyry Management Consulting, explains the hard-nosed reality behind the environmental issue. Corporate social and environmental responsibility is commonly claimed to...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Utilising KemView™ sheet analyser to optimise softness and control the creping process

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Kemira’s Clay Campbell, Lucyna Pawlowska, Xiaosong Huang There are different roads one can take to achieve tissue softness. The key is to be able to determine how to get there and...

    Paper Machine Quality, energy, fibre, water, costs… the search for high end advances

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    TWM/1 What new technical advances have you made in the last year concerning issues such as energy, fibre and water reduction, sheet quality and reliability? Paolo Raffaelli, technical director, Toscotec: “The focus...
    Tissue World Magazine

    New OnePly product that “easily competes with TAD and NTT”

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Spain’s LC Paper won Tissue World Milan’s prestigious Most Energy-Aware Mill Award. Here, chief executive Joan Vila talks through the development process which led the independent niche tissue producer to energy savings of...

    HMI redefined: a radical technological change in Human Machine Interface (HMI) hardware – and...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report. OPTIMA Nonwoven’s Gustav Marwitz discusses the recent research results. Smartphones and tablets are continually driving tissue machine operator’s expectations from packaging equipment....
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    Simple, efficient and effective: equip your systems for the future, saving costs and unlocking...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report. Edson Packaging’s Josh Goulet talks efficiencies. In today’s world, it’s more important than ever to reduce downtime and access real-time data...
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    Tissue and towel packaging: consumers demand higher quality.

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report.  In recent years, the tissue market in North America has shifted dramatically to structured sheet, high-quality, product-branded and private-label products. Similarly, packaging needs...
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    Extreme automation – energy – process monitoring – premium quality – predictive data –...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Top experts at the world’s leading tissue machinery suppliers detail their assessments of state-of-the-art systems... and explain how they see advances yet to come. A TWM report. TWM/1: What were your key technical developments during...
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    Discussing eco-friendly and effective repulping aids in response to new regulatory challenges

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
         By  Kemira Chemicals Germany’s Vladimir Grigoriev, senior manager, applications and marketing, Pulp&Paper EMEA, and Tea Hannuksela, group leader Abstract Wet-strengthened paper grades often require a use of oxidative repulping aids. Traditional hypochlorite is undesirable due...
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    Pulp: signs that prices are finally levelling

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Pulp price is the single most important driver of tissue profitability. Currently at a record high, analysts point towards a temporarily more static market, and even a modest decrease. Report for TWM...
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    High quality NBSK for premium tissue

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Paul Bicho, Ph.D., manager, optimisation and innovation, Canfor Pulp Innovation The makers of premium bathroom and facial tissue strive to maximise softness and bulk while maintaining tensile strength to ensure runnability and...
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