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Pulp Paper & Logistics
Portability provides revolution in maintenance documentation
T
he use and management of maintenance documentation from Futura’s training and
support division, ProCare, has been upgraded with its easy-to-use ProTablet. Instead of bulky manuals, ProCare
offers access to continuously updated documentation for all Futura tissue converting equipment in one rugged, portable device. Customers can access exploded
views and detailed procedural videos with ease. By scanning a barcode on the relevant component with ProTablet’s built in reader, the user can call up all documentation and other resources relevant to the task at hand. It not only simplifies some vital tasks, but helps operators use
their time more effectively. With full PC functionality,
ProTablet can be docked and integrated with the Customer’s own IT system, or linked to a projector for professional training. ProTablet can also be used to send spare parts requests direct to ProCare or
an internal purchasing office. ProCare manager Alessandro Viani said: “ProTablet really brings in a new era for documentation, designed to make life simpler for the operator. Just consider how complicated it was in the past to locate the relevant section in a
manual, or even electronically in a remote office. Today we are able to explain every possible maintenance activity using our customer’s own language through brilliantly clear, instantly-accessed technical 3D videos, right next to the relevant equipment. “Thanks to skills of Randy
Kohltfarber and the team at Convergence Training, the most user- friendly video can be streamed and kept updated via this extraordinary device. Users can gain instant access the most relevant information, right where they need it, with or without Internet connection.” More information from Futura
SpA, Via di Sottopoggio 1/x, 55012 Guamo, Lucca, Italy. Tel: 39 0583 94911. Web: www.
futuraconverting.com
No harmful additives for optical brightener
What is described as the world’s most highly-concentrated, urea- free liquid optical brightening agent (OBA) for printing and writing papers has been launched by Clariant. New disulphonated Leucophor ACK contains no environmentally- harmful additives, decreases OBA requirements for papermakers, and lowers transport costs and carbon footprint. Leucophor ACK is an ultra-
concentrated aqueous solution specially designed to give state- of-the-art effectiveness while satisfying the most demanding environmental requirements. The patented brightener is primarily intended for stock application in sized and unsized papers.
September 2013 Glycol-free, the REACH-
registered brightener contributes less to the overall nitrogen and COD content of backwaters and effluent. Leucophor ACK fulfils the requirements of Nordic Swan, EU Eco Flower and BfR. From an efficiency perspective, papermakers want to use less active agent to achieve good brightness or whiteness in any application. The highly substantive, ultra-concentrated stilbene brightener exhibits impressively high build up, even at extremely low concentrations, thanks to its strength and high affinity to the paper fibre. Compared to current disulpho chemistries, Leucophor ACK shows improved performance on
stock addition to both virgin and recycled fibre, and in pigmented coating applications, particularly those containing PVOH as a secondary binder. It also allows greater flexibility and higher solids’ contents in CMC and starch/CMC pigmented coatings. The OBA’s higher strength supports fewer deliveries and reduced storage volumes for paper mills. It therefore generates better sustainability through savings in product quantity and logistics, plus a lower transport carbon footprint, as well as easier handling. Leucophor ACK liquid is also particularly suitable for unsized tissue, neutral-sized and heavy loaded papers, and is one of the
most effective OBAs for use in wood-containing grades, such as improved newsprint and SC grades. “Sustainability is a clear
trend, but at the same time papermakers do not want to sacrifice the technical and economic advantages of their operations. Leucophor ACK liquid satisfies an important need in the market, building sustainability on to the cost performance and ease-of-handling which customers have come to expect from Leucophor products,” said Andrew Jackson who is product manager, Business Unit Paper Specialties at Clariant. More information from www.
clariant.com
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