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Yankee and MG Dryer Efficiency Explored at Tissue Clinic

Kadant Solutions Division recently hosted the Tissue and MG Machine Optimization Clinic where participants had the opportunity to learn best-in-class practices from various process experts and identify new ways of viewing Yankee dryer optimization.

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Product Evolution in Effective Water and Fiber Recovery

During the past four decades, Kadant has supplied over 1,000 gravity and vacuum-assisted strainers to the pulp and paper industry. As the pulp and paper industry evolved, the need for a product with the advantages of traditional strainers that incorporated higher reliability, a simple design, and less maintenance was recognized.

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Checking Blade Angle Decreases Downtime and Increases Performance

Doctor and roll cleaning blades are used to clean rolls and remove stock accumulations, water, pitch, and filler buildup. Since doctor and roll cleaning blades are used in a variety of industries including paper, tissue, carbon fiber, chemical, food, beverage, corrugating, construction, metals, textiles and nonwovens, it is important to make sure each blade angle is set appropriately for the job.

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Eight Steps to Avoid Trim Squirt Nozzle Buildup and Improve Sheet Edges

Minimizing wet end breaks due to poorly designed trim squirt systems will increase machine efficiency and productivity. This includes avoiding buildup on the trim squirt nozzles above the sheet. The following steps can help minimize buildups and improve sheet edge finishing.

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MP Hygiene Successfully Trials Ceramic Tip Creping Blade

MP Hygiene, now in its fourth generation of ownership, recently seized the leadership position for hand towels in France. This fully integrated tissue maker and converter provides paper and non-woven wipes, disposable safety products, and hand cleaners for automotive, janitorial, medical, and food processing industries.

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Vibration Monitoring in Tissue Manufacturing

One of the most dreaded words uttered in a tissue manufacturing facility is “chatter”. The thought of Yankee chatter makes many vendors, suppliers, and operators queasy. As tissue mill technology has evolved with improved controls, hardware, drives, clothing, and chemistry, Yankee speeds have increased leading to production limitations of the asset.

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Ceramic Tip Creping Blade Exceeds Tissue Manufacturer’s Expectations

According to Jack Allen, Kadant’s tissue applications manager, “tissue creping is an operation near the end of the tissue manufacturing process where bulk, stretch, absorbency, and softness are created in the tissue. Tissue creping is vitally important when these characteristics are key attributes of the final product. Technically, everything can be a factor and affect the tissue creping process.”

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Continuous Blade Systems = Quick Roi

What do food, chemicals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and tobacco have in common with the paper towels sitting on your kitchen counter? The answer lies in how they are manufactured.

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Tissue Creping: An Interview with Jack Allen

I sat down with Kadant’s Jack Allen, tissue applications manager, to better understand the tissue creping process and unique industry challenges. Jack’s work at Kadant focuses primarily on providing training to sales and service associates about the chemistry used in tissue manufacturing and supporting field trials of the new CeraEdge™ creping blade.

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