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Modern tissue R&D centre to be opened by Andritz
T
he world’s most modern research and development facility for tissue manufacturing will
be opened by Andritz at Graz in Austria next March. Final test runs are being carried
out at the PrimeLineTIAC Tissue Innovation and Application Center, which comprises a tissue production line, including laboratory facilities for tests and trials to develop new products and processes in the tissue sector. The facility is available to tissue
producers and to suppliers, research and development companies, and universities. Customers and developers will be able to conduct tests and trials under a range of conditions, such as to optimise fibres and furnish for a specific product, improve product qualities, increase dryness, and reduce energy consumption. The impact of variables such
as stock preparation, chemicals, vacuum, machine clothing, pressing, and drying with hot air and steam can all be measured and evaluated
Opening next March: Andritz’s new R&D centre at Graz
accurately. While Andritz experts from R&D and from the stock preparation, machine design and engineering, automation, and pumps departments will be available for collaboration and discussions, customers will also be able bring along their own team of specialists. The PrimeLineTIAC line has its
own complete stock preparation line together with the approach flow system. Many kinds of pulp
South Africa’s paper recycling rate rises to 68.4%
South Africa successfully diverted 1.4 million tonnes of recyclable paper and paper packaging from landfill in 2016. The Paper Recycling Association of South Africa (PRASA) reports that the annual paper recovery rate has sustained two percentage points year-on-year growth since 2012 and now stands at 68.4 per cent. “This surpasses the global average of 58 per cent,” says
September/October 2017
PRASA operations director Ursula Henneberry, adding that recovered paper – the paper and cardboard put in recycling bins – is a valuable raw material that South African manufacturers have been using as an alternative fibre since 1920. “Despite this, newspapers,
magazines, office paper, cardboard boxes, paper cups, milk and juice cartons still go to landfill,” says Henneberry.
can be processed in one production line, which is split into a separate short fibre and long fibre line. In addition, all units are available in small industrial scale, creating an excellent environment for best possible fibre treatment and tests according to the individual needs of customers and products. With a design speed of 2,500 m/ min and a sheet width of 600 mm, the machine can be operated with either a suction press roll or a shoe
press, a regular CrescentFormer or a vertical CrescentFormer, and with a 16-foot steel Yankee or two 14-foot TAD drums. The PrimeControl automation
hardware and software provides flexibility in monitoring and controlling the eight machine configurations as well as the stock preparation system, including alarm management, online documentation, and eco-monitoring for example.
Kvarnsveden Mill will be ‘made more competitive’
Stora Enso shut down one of the paper machines at its Kvarnsveden Mill in Sweden in June and says it has concluded negotiations with key parties. The permanent closure of the PM8 was first announced in February and affected 122 staff in the related organisation of the mill. This was said to be mitigated through individual
arrangements such as early retirement. Stora Enso says that it is
convinced that the measures taken will improve the competitiveness of the mill, which will continue to operate with its two paper making lines: PM10 for improved newsprint paper and PM12 for SC papers.
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