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2900 mm Foudrinier paper machine producing writing and printing papers, coated papers, gsm range 40 to 320. Speed: 450 m/min. Production up to 160 tonnes / day. Drive on left side from the flowbox.

Machine complete with stock prep, broke system and rewinder.

Machine has Measurex 2002: controlling moisture, ash, grammage and colour.

Machine DC drive is a modern sectional electric drive installed  in 1990.

Stock Preparation

Bale conveyor 4 part horizontal, Black Clawson 14ft pulper, 4200 mm diameter, batch operation, Volkes rotor with perforated screen plate all stainless steel and a V. rope drive.

Virgin pulp used and fed from horizontal pulp bale conveyors. Pulping cycle time is 15 min.

Broke chest: stainless steel chest with side entry agitator.

Pulper dump chest: concrete chest with stainless side entry agitator.

Three small concrete chests with stainless side entry agitators for stock storage.

Trim refiners consist of an Allimond GR3 conical

Stainless steel chest with a capacity of 60 m³ complete with stainless side entry agitator.

Small stainless chest with top entry agitator for mixing clay.

Starch cooker of Amylam manufacture with stainless steel tank.

Heated stainless jacketed tank, which is fed from the starch cooker.

Bran and Lubbe colour kitchen with mixers and colour dosing stations.

Computer control on colour.

Back water fibre recovery by stainless conical tank with fibre settler at base.

Albany micro filter screen for fibre removal on water used for wire sprays.

Concrete machine chest with a stainless side entry agitator.

Starch silo capacity 150 m³, diameter 4.32m, height 14.10m weight when full 120,000 kgs, pressure at outlet 1 kn/m.

Cellier L.D cleaning system with four stages.  primary cleaners, stainless steel with ceramic liners, second and third stage with a total of two banks of 28 Celleco cleaners each, with polyethylene cones and final stage two Cellier cleaners with fibre savers fitted.

Machine pressure screen is a Lamort SP 800 with V rope drive. Basket has 0.4mm slots.

Fibre recovery for white water fibre recovery with stainless conical tank and base fibre collector.

Micro filter by Albany in stainless.

Paper Machine

Wire section 1991 manufacture wire section rebuilt with headbox profile control.

Wire has 15 mtr centres from breast roll to suction couch.

Overhead twin rail crane with twin lifting units and max capacity 4000 kgs.

Allimond pressure flowbox, multi branch manifold, projection slice, edge deckles, two evener rolls, internal shower, box stainless lined, edge construction stainless and front and rear of flowbox fabricated steel, 22 slice micro control adjuster’s computer controlled. Process control on slice lip.

Wire frame is run out design and is stainless clad,  two shake motions located at the breast roll and the wire frame , centres between breast roll and suction couch are 15 m, centres 3900mm, wire width 3300mm.

Forming box stainless with polyethylene top and foils, two foil unit’s stainless steel with polyethylene foils, two vacuum assisted foil unit’s stainless steel with polyethylene foils. Foil widths are 3200mm, table roll, positioned between foil boxes.

Stainless vacuum box.

Dandy stainless steel 1220mm diameter with shower and equipped with an individual drive. Dandy has a shower tray stainless steel manufacture in the machine hall for dandy cleaning.

Five stainless suction boxes with polyethylene covers.

Suction couch roll on A/F bearings, cantilevered design and rubber covered.

Sheet transfer by blow box in the suction couch.

Press sections  year 1961

First press suction press with pneumatic loading, rolls on A/F bearings, auto felt guide and auto felt tensioning. Rope feed to second press. Max load 35 kg/nm.

Through type roll diameters 650 and 560mm, nip pressure 35 Kn/m

Second press plain press with pneumatic loading, A/F bearings, auto edge guide and auto felt tensioning. Rope feed to third press. Rolls 555 and 560 mm diameter. Bottom roll is grooved. Maximum load 60 kg/nm.

Third  press top Kuster roll, pneumatic loading, A/F bearings, auto edge guide.

Rope feed to the marking press. Rolls are 440 and 600 mm diameter. Maximum load is 100kg/nm.

Marking press section with twin set of rolls on one central frame. The press has pneumatic loading. Rolls are on A/F bearings. Rope feed to dryer section. Rolls are marking rolls with embossed finish. Diameters are 500 and 550mm.

Pre drying section 

The dryers are with 6 dryer groups and totally 26 drying cylinders. 1250mm diameter, 3 bar steam pressure, with stationary siphons, cascade drying sysem, drying bearings A/F with central lub stations on rear side and manual lubrication on front side.

Felt rolls with manual greasing. Oscillating doctors in the first section. Pocket blow rolls. Madelleine auto guides and electric felt stretchers. Hood totally enclosed. Curtains on the front side. Brunschweiler hood year 1991, sheathen rope system.

The drying section of 1996 manufacture has six sections in the pre dryers. The bearings on the cylinders and the felt rolls are A/F bearings, cylinder ends are bolted, all felt rolls are manually greased, the front dryer bearings have manual oil feed and the rear dryer bearings are on a central recirculation oil feed system. The dryers sections in total have enclosed gearing and each section has the first two dryers driven from the sectional electric drive with the remaining cylinders felt driven. The cylinders have stationary syphons and the rotary joints are Johnston.  Dryer working pressure is maximum 3 bars (43.5psi). Machine has a totally enclosed hood by Brunnschweiler of 1991 manufacture. Cascade steam system.

Pre dryer section comprises of a total of 16 drying cylinders, 1250mm diameter, face 3200mm, face with rope rings 3330 mm and the first dryers are doctored.

Auto felt guides are of Heuber manufacture and felt tension is set manually.

Measurex scanner 2002 for basis weight and moisture

Coater/Size film press

Twin HSM BTG coater, year 1998, stainless steel frame, rolls on A/F bearings, pneumatic operation. Rope feed to the second dryer section. Applying a maximum of 25 gsm coating. Design speed 1000 m/min. Suitable for size application.

Kreiger infra red gas fired dryers with stainless frames.

After dryers

First cylinder in the section is Teflon coated. There are ten cylinders in the second section.

Specification as the first dryer section. This section has a single drive from the sectional electric drive..

Measurex 2002 scanner controlling moisture, gsm, ash, profile and colour on both sides of the sheet.

Calendar

Allimond mat on line tandem soft nip calendar, year 2001, with two heated rolls,

each side of the calendar with one plain roll and two Kuster rolls,

Heating unit in basement for heating rolls. A/F bearings and pneumatic loading on the rolls. Rope feed to the reel up. Auto rope tensioning for tail feed up which has pneumatic cylinder loading at each side of the scanner frame.

Roll heating unit located in the basement with hydraulic power pack for rolls.

Hole detector

QCS scanner Measurex 2002 for measuring moisture, basis weight, ash, profile and colour on both sides of the sheet.

XZ Tape transfer system for reel changes.

Horizontal reel up year 2001 with tambour storage above reel up, reel shell capacity five reel shells, reel turn up pneumatic loading, reel arrester when reel shell in use, roll diameter 1500mm, centres 3900mm, drum 3400mm face. Hydraulic operation with power pack in machine basement.

Vacuum system in machine basement with a total of six vacuum pumps.

Includes drive panels etc.

Clour system Brann and Lubbe with mixers and colour dosing stations.

Starch silo 150 mtr/3 capacity. 4.32m diameter and height 14.10 mtrs.

Clothing spare and rolls spare.

Overhead twin rail crane for reel removal and transfer to rewinder Maximum lifting capacity 9400 kgs.

Rewinder

Ahlstrom rewinder, year 1987, model BRP3B, 3000mm width,  weight15,000 kgs, speed 1500 m/min.

Tambour unwind with hydraulic water cooled brakes, roll diameter 1500 mm.

Auto tension control, 11 slitters with the top slitters motor driven, manual setting on knives.

Twin motor drives each 103 kw maximum, drives on left side from the unwind, shaftless rewind, roll diameter on rewind 1500mm, reel ejection and lowering table.

Reel stopper then reel onto conveyor with in - line scales.

Sanic baler feeding to broke pulper

Broke system

Stainless steel Lamort pulper with Helical rotor, V belt drive. Can be fed sheets manually via flat conveyor and also has the option of a conveyor system with in

HC pulper with helical rotor and batch operation.

 Mill handle broke 30 to 40 t/day.

 Tub dimensions approx are   diameter 3 mtrs and height internally 2.5 meters.

 It is fed by two flat belt conveyors from roll splitter on one conveyor 2 mtrs width x 1.5 mtrs roll diameter.

Finishing equipment Optional

Two sheeters:

Passaban model KSF/86 LP 1600, year 1988, design width of the machine 1420mm, speed maximum 220 m/min, reel diameter if four reels used 1300mm, core size 120mm, sheet length 400mm to 1600mm, sheet width 400 to 1420mm.

60 to 350 gsm, knife load, synchro cutting,  three slitters, reel loading by crane into shaftless chucks, auto tension control on the unwind. Overlap section with reject gate, counter and tab insertors. Walkway on right of machine from unwinds.