Paper or Papermaking

Partnership Yields Results at Wuhan Golden Phoenix Paper

Entrepreneurial owner Chen Jun brings together the best of Western papermaking technology with Chinese-made paper machines at Wuhan Golden Phoenix Paper, where most of the innovative systems come from Kadant. At Wuhan GPP, five paper machines—including the most recent, PM 8, which started up in early 2018—churn out fluting day and night, looked after by 800 workers who live beside the mill or close by. With 1,200,000 tons of fluting, Wuhan GPP is the leading producer in China for this grade.

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Do You Need to Improve Your Mill’s Preventive Maintenance/Essential Care and Condition Monitoring Process?

PM/ECCM programs are poor and mill leaders are not fixing them, according to Tor Idhammar, of IDCON, Inc. Mills have often inherited a poor PM/ECCM program due to past cost reductions or just complacency, but even if the current mill staff didn’t create the situation, the situation still needs to be fixed. Idhammar explains how to identify whether your mill needs to improve its PM/ECCM and, if it does, where to begin that process.

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TJ SUMMARIES

The papers summarized here are from the TAPPI Journal August issue. TAPPI Journal is an online publication of relevant and timely peer-reviewed research delivered via email and free to all TAPPI members. To receive TAPPI Journal, join TAPPI at www.tappi.org. RECYCLING Effect of pulper consistency on stickies size distribution Mahendra Doshi, Salman Aziz, Robert de Jong, and Carl Houtman Pulper ...

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Simplifying Moisture Measurement

JOHN BOGART When manufacturing pulp, paper, and corrugated materials, measuring and controlling moisture content can impact product quality, production throughput, and processing efficiency. It can also affect the purchase price of wood chips, pulp, and converted paper products, not to mention shipping costs. Until recently, conducting frequent moisture content tests throughout the process or in the field has been difficult. ...

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Metsä Group’s Äänekoski Bioproduct Mill: At the Heart of the Bioeconomy

Paper 360° visited Metsä Group’s EUR 1.2 billion (US$1.4 billion) bioproduct mill in central Finland, which has been breaking all sorts of records when it comes to sustainability and environmental performance. Starting up seven minutes ahead of schedule in August 2017, it has also embarked upon an adventurous, innovative journey of making bioproducts other than pulp. MARK RUSHTON One thing ...

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Cascades Packaging Starts up PM1 at Kingsey Falls After Major Rebuild by Toscotec

Following a major rebuild of the dryer section supplied by Toscotec with the installation of TT SteelDryers, Cascades Packaging fired up its PM1 at Kingsey Falls mill, Canada. The machine was started up on schedule on September 23rd with the support of Toscotec’s service engineers, who also provided the commissioning and the erection supervision onsite. Toscotec implemented an efficient rebuild ...

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Engage Your Suppliers in Every Step of the Process to Improve the Outputs

The Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) was born more than 100 years back, having headquarter at Atlanta , Georgia USA. TAPPI is a volunteer-led association that is built around a community comprised of thousands of members engineers, managers, scientists, academic, suppliers and others from around the world. In an exclusive interview given to The Pulp and Paper ...

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Are You in the ‘Circle of Despair’?

TOR IDHAMMAR, IDCON, INC. If you work in a highly reactive maintenance organization, you will be trapped in a “circle of despair” and will waste too much time doing the wrong things. A circle of despair starts when you must react to a problem, or a perceived problem, on short notice. You then try to correct the problem as fast ...

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TJ Summaries

The papers summarized here are from the TAPPI Journal June and July 2018 issues. TAPPI Journal is an online publication of relevant and timely peer-reviewed research delivered via email and free to all TAPPI members. To receive TAPPI Journal, join TAPPI at www.tappi.org. JUNE DELIGNIFICATION Using online bubble size and total dissolved solids measurements to investigate the performance of oxygen ...

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Specialty Producer Tries a New Quick Link to Efficiency

Inland Empire Paper is among first to try a patented new seaming technology for quick and safe changes of dryer fabrics. ROBERT PUHR Inland Empire Paper Co. (IEP), located in Millwood, WA, near Spokane, has been in business since 1911. It manufactures more than 50 grades of newsprint and specialty papers using a combination of virgin mechanical and recycled fiber. ...

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