Improving wet end operations can increase your productivity through

• Improved quality

• Enhanced basis weight stability

• Increased machine efficiency

• Reduced fiber losses

Improve Quality

Poor cleaning and screening performance does not have to be “just the way it is”. Improved contaminant removal can be achieved by establishing better operating conditions and more effective servicing methods. Modifications to the cleaner body geometry can be helpful in certain cases. Your quality image will be enhanced as you produce more first quality paper.

Enhance Basis Weight Stability

Forty percent of paper machine headbox approach systems have sources of random basis weight variability that can be readily identified and corrected. In most cases, the corrections can be implemented at modest cost. Your customer will benefit from a more uniform product. You can enjoy increased production efficiencies.

Increase Machine Efficiency

Many paper machines have wet end designs that are entirely too complicated, with extra pumps and tanks, elaborate piping, and unnecessarily complex control systems. Simplifying the wet end improves efficiency, reduces downtime, and facilitates maintenance. Simplifying the wet end can also reduce power consumption in some cases.

Reduce Fiber Losses

Some cleaning and screening systems reject excessive quantities of usable fiber to prevent reject lines from plugging. This is costly and unnecessary. Inexpensive piping alterations can often reduce or eliminate reject line plugging. You can get higher yields from these expensive raw materials.

How Stoneleigh Can Help You Increase Paper Machine Productivity

• Cleaner system surveys

• Cleaner body servicing support

• Headbox slice flow surveys

• Thin stock system evaluations

• Troubleshooting services

Stoneleigh’s specialized engineering services are customized to help you achieve your productivity objectives.