PAPERmaking! FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF PAPER TECHNOLOGY Volume 4, Number 1, 2018
MIAC 10-12 October 2018, Lucca, Italy
Free exhibition and four associated free conferences: MIAC TISSUE CONFERENCE – FIRST SESSION 10 October 2018 – time 13.40/16.50 Toward the Tissue Paper Mill 4.0 1. Opening of the Conference
Massimo Ramunni – Deputy Director General (ASSOCARTA) 2. PrimeLineTIAC – One machine, various configurations Klaus Gissing – Director TIAC and Air & Energy Systems (ANDRITZ) The ANDRITZ PrimeLineTIAC Tissue Innovation and Application Center, in Graz, Austria, comprises a complete, state-of-the-art tissue production line, including laboratory facilities for tests and trials to develop new products and processes for the tissue industry. It is available to tissue producers and suppliers, research and development companies, and universities. The pilot tissue machine at the ANDRITZ Tissue Innovation and Application Center (TIAC) is, unlike any other in the world, offering the utmost flexibility: Dry-creped tissue can be produced on a vertical CrescentFormer with either a suction roll or shoe press (the PrimePress XT Evo, the latest shoe press technology available). Textured tissue can be produced by a new, patented Textured Module. For structured tissue, wet molding creates a 3D arrangement of the fibers that is preserved by means of Through-Air Drying (TAD), and Advanced TAD. The machine can be configured with different TAD arrangements to investigate impacts on energy consumption. The PrimeLineTIAC has already proven to be a birthplace of new products and processes. A place were not only tissue producers, but also suppliers and R&D institutes can come to fine-tune their products. Structured tissue processes are nowadays entering an increasingly close connection with the request for premium paper quality and the need for reduced energy demand. Through Air Drying (TAD) is the main process for producing structured paper for tissue and towel grades, and although the quality is far more superior to conventional processes, the energy is still high compared to standard dry crepe technologies. The TAD process develops functional properties by molding the fiber mat into a structured fabric (TAD fabric). The resulting structured tissue product will have higher bulk and absorption due to air passing through the sheet forming a sheet with differentiated density areas. Although newer hybrid technologies have been recently introduced on the market, structured tissue technology still represents the reference process for the production of premium quality tissue. Latest developments in TAD process technology design can reduce the energy demand of the production maintaining unchanged the final quality targets, by means of energy recovery, reduced energy losses, improved dewatering. Water consumption can also be reduced by means of optimized water systems and fiber recovery units. 3. Recent achievements in TAD technology Stefano Marenco – R&D Director (TOSCOTEC)
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