Paprima completing R&D on a new design for a dryer fabric cleaner.   The paper industry is facing many challenges. One of these is the high cost of energy. Projects which decrease paper machine energy consumption usually have very attractive paybacks. The paper machine dryer section is a major consumer of steam and maintaining the [...]

80th Reel-Jet™ high pressure water-jet reel turn-up system was recently sold to UPM-Kymmene, Rauma, Finland to reduce spool core loss and increase turn-up efficiency on their SC paper PM2. The system also includes Paprima’s patented parent roll edge gluing system which completely eliminates flying paper. Six such systems have now been sold for use on uncoated [...]

IMPROVE YOUR TURN-UP EFFICIENCY A high-speed, tail turn-up at the sheet center using high-pressure water cutting jets will increase reel turn-up efficiency and reduce spool bottom waste It is common practice to make the web transfer at the reel from a wound spool to a fresh spool by cutting an edge tail with a wet-end [...]

Paprima technology on state of the art machines As a general rule, improved efficiency normally means a high paper machine speed, a large paper width and a high degree of availability. Paper machine speeds have reached, and even surpassed the 2000 m/min mark. A compilation as of January 2008 by PPI illustrates that these developments mostly [...]