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be run at full machine speed – with ‘fast forward’ we are talking about a few hours!


PPL: That is a convincing overall concept. And presumably the environment benefits as well? FK: That is true as well as important; especially since Heimbach is committed to environmental protection as befitting a socially- responsible company. With ‘ff’ we deliver considerably higher production efficiency to our customers. Or we could put it the other way round: Saved energy does not need to be produced. This is how


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sustainability works with ‘fast forward’, since besides maximum efficiency in the nip dewatering process significant savings are made because UHLE boxes can be switched off when using ‘ff’!


PPL: ‘Bye-bye cost triangle’, so to speak. FK: Absolutely – There are enormous savings opportunities that our customers can exploit quickly and easily. Be it nip dewatering, more production volume or energy savings. In the case of a large paper machine we are talking about well over one million euros per year in total. And from now on ‘ff’ is an important part of this.


Heimbach’s latest felt design, Atrocross.F Connect


Reference 1 Configuration: TWINVER Speed: 1,230 m/min Width: 8.35 m Paper grade LWC, 36-63 g/sqm (raw) Pick-up: atrocross.F ff CONNECT Result: Enormous reduction of start- up time, previously 36 hours – now 1.5. Fastest-ever start recorded on this machine.


March/April 2019


Reference 2 Configuration: Optipress Speed: 1,500 m/min Width: 7.05m Paper grade: Copy, 60-120 g/sqm Pick-up: atrojet. ff Result: Very fast start-up, best performance to date.


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