Boosting of production capacity

Paper & Board machines are built to be used 24/7 during many years. However, it happens once in a while that after years of operation, it turns out that local bottlenecks limit the speed of the line. Our compact and high intensity drying solution sometimes provide a perfect solution for this.

We have references in different positions of a paper machine which have resulted in increased production capacity thanks to well chosen investments allowing to remove the bottleneck which was limiting production capacity.

Examples include:

• Preheating & predrying between press and pre-drying section
• Increase the capacity of the press section by increase the web temperature before the last press
• Boosting drying capacity after size press by adding an infrared dryer between sizer and post-drying section
• Removing wet edges to avoid speed limitation due to lack of drying in on the edges of the cylinders
• Replacing old ineffective drying in coat section by modern high intensity infrared & air dryers
• Installing an infrared dryer against last drying cans to increase drying capacity of drying section
• Preheating of web before coaters to remove excess moisture and condition the web for a better coating process
• After calendar section, to dry the paper to required reel moisture

Contact us :

paper@ircon-solaronics.com