Germany’s Fripa Papierfabrik Albert Friedrich (Fripa) has started-up a Toscotec-supplied TT NextPress shoe press supplied at its Miltenberg mill.
The company confirmed the shoe press has been operating efficiently for a few months and has fully achieved the targets of the rebuild.
Resulting from R&D activities in cooperation with Voith, Toscotec said its new generation design of TT NextPress shoe press “delivers superior dewatering performances and energy savings.”
It said the technology “ensures a stable after-press dryness rate” of more than 45% on a tissue line operating at a speed of 2,100m/min.
Christoph Maaß, Head of Paper Production at Fripa, said: “The main aim of the rebuild was to extend the lifetime of the paper machine clothing and improve machine uptime with stable production conditions.
“As things stand today, it can already be considered confirmed that both the felt and the sleeve lifetime has been extended enormously.
“As a result, the machine availability has improved positively. Another important effect is an improvement in the moisture profile, which leads to improved runability in the converting process.”
Founded in 1911, Fripa is headquartered in Miltenberg where it operates three paper machines and several converting plants.
It has two distribution warehouses in Düren and Berlin and a production capacity of 125,000tpy.
