5 Most Popular Blog Posts Feature Roll and Fabric Cleaning
The year is already half over and the marketplace is constantly evolving, so in case you missed it, these are the top five blog posts from the past 12 months based on popularity.
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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.
Read moreWritten by Vicki Hunsberger on June 02, 2015.
Nanotechnology Blade Breakthrough Follows Call for Step Change in Performance
Five years ago our CEO, Jon Painter, brought the Kadant R&D teams together with a mission in mind: he encouraged step change technologies vs. incremental gains. For my team in the UK, this meant a revolutionary step forward for doctoring. Blades tougher than steel. Blades capable of withstanding brutal contaminated conditions; providing high value and excellent performance to our customers.
Read moreWritten by Dr. Mike Draper on April 21, 2015.
Keys for Choosing a Fabric or Roll Cleaning Supplier
Although there are many criteria to consider when selecting a supplier of traversing showers for fabric or roll cleaning equipment, the most important is to choose a system that delivers the desired results, which in most cases includes improved runnability and increased productivity.
Read moreWritten by Steve Fielding on February 10, 2015.
A Filtration System Design By and For Papermakers
Pressure filters are used extensively in the papermaking process and often go unnoticed as they effortlessly operate in stable mill water systems. They quietly perform as designed preventing shower nozzles from plugging and assuring that paper machine clothing remains clean. Pressure filters protect process equipment by removing contaminants such as sand and silt from mill water.
Read moreWritten by Dave McGowan on December 16, 2014.
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.
Read moreWritten by Aaron Hickman on June 30, 2015.
Fabric and Roll Cleaning Pilot Plant Provides Useful Trial Insights
The papermaker is faced with many challenges when trying to keep fabrics and roll covers clean. Contaminants are deposited and consequently forced into the void volume of fabrics, reducing permeability, creating holes in the sheet, and other runnability issues. In addition, deposits on roll surfaces cause picking or sheet marking.
Read moreWritten by Steve Fielding on May 06, 2015.
Kadant Announces New Ceramic Tip Blade for Tissue Market
Kadant Solutions is pleased to announce the launch of its CeraEdge™ creping blade line for use in tissue production. The new creping blade utilizes a thermal spray technology to offer a unique ceramic-tipped blade that provides tissue producers with excellent creping performance in terms of operating life and tissue softness.
Read moreWritten by Vicki Hunsberger on April 07, 2015.
High Resolution™ Forming System for Packaging Grades of Paper
For years, papermakers have looked for the best combination of drainage and formation in the early section of fourdrinier paper machines. The ability to maximize drainage without sealing the sheet and to control sheet activity over a wide range of basis weights have been challenges with increasing machine speeds and customer quality demands.
Read moreWritten by Charles Pound on January 13, 2015.
How to Choose a Roll Cleaning Blade
Doctor blade? Roll cleaning blade? Scraper? The term is used differently depending on the industry but the product’s purpose is the same–to clean or remove contaminants from a cylindrical surface.
Read moreWritten by Vicki Hunsberger on November 04, 2014.
