Cartiera del Chiese S.p.A, Italy, this past week reported to have started up a PMT Italia (Pinerolo, Italy) Smartnip shoe press at its Montichiari Mill in Italy. The shoe press was selected to optimize the production of smooth and semi-extensible sack kraft paper, with the goal of increasing production and improving quality. Also, in this specific mill application, the modularity and compactness of the Smartnip press was a key factor in using this kind of technology in the press section rebuild, while improving geometry of the first dryer group.
The paper machine was restarted with the Smartnip on January 16 and is currently in its optimization phase. PMT notes that, due to its flexibility, the Smartnip will achieve the right balance among dry content after press, density, porosity, and other typical sack kraft peculiarities.
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