Aylesford Newsprint Expands Advanced Web Inspection System
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Aylesford Newsprint Ltd., U.K., reports that it expanded its advanced web inspection system delivered by Metso in 2010 on PM 14 to include cameras for web break analysis. Metso Process and Quality Vision system (Metso PQV) enables improvements in runnability and production by finding the origins of web breaks and analyzing the defect map of even the smallest defects from the whole web.
The Metso PQV system integrates web inspection and web break analysis capabilities using the most advanced high-resolution, high-speed digital imaging technology available. The extension at Aylesford Newsprint includes 15 fixed position web break cameras and 1 portable camera.
Aylesford Newsprint recycles 500,000 metric tpy of used newspapers and magazines in the production of Renaissance, a 100% recycled publishing quality newsprint that is used by many of the U.K. and Europe's regional and national newspaper publishers.
Aylesford Newsprint is a joint venture company between SCA Forest Products of Finland and Mondi of South Africa.
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