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Toscotec launches breakthrough innovations for a more sustainable tissue making - Paper Technology International 2023

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Toscotec launches breakthrough innovations for a more sustainable tissue making - Paper Technology International 2023
launches breakthrough
Toscotec
innovations for a more
sustainable tissuemaking
Giulia Fabbri, Global Marketing and Communication Manager, Toscotec
INTRODUCTION:
In 2022, Toscotec has launched three breakthrough technological innovations aimed at reducing the energy consumption and carbon
emissions linked to tissuemaking and at guaranteeing the highest tissue quality:
1. INGENIA, a new concept tissue machine to produce structured tissue
2. TT Induction SYD, a steel Yankee dryer that relies on electromagnetic induction instead of steam for drying
3. TT Hydrogen Burner, a new generation of burners for Yankee hoods fueled by 100% hydrogen.
1. INGENIA
Energy, sustainability, and quality are the most
challenging topics in R&D and design process for
papermaking today. State-of-the-art technologies for
structured tissue have an undisputed high-end paper quality
benchmark fixed by TAD (Through Air Drying), which is
currently identified as the top process to manufacture high
quality, highly absorbent and soft tissue. The market also
offers other intermediate technologies that also produce
a textured tissue and can lead to a reduction of energy
usage, but whose final products do not compare to real
structured paper. Undoubtedly, the most important leaps in
tissuemaking technology are moving around the possibility
to produce structured tissue similar to TAD, but with less
energy need and capital investment required.
Toscotec has developed INGENIA, a new concept
tissue machine to produce premium quality structured
tissue paper. The quality generated by INGENIA line is
substantially higher than textured tissue and close to Through Air
Drying (TAD) produced paper but using 35% less energy.
Figure 2: Toscotec’s INGENIA line.
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Figure 1: Toscotec’s headquarters in Lucca, Italy.
With INGENIA Toscotec responds to the challenge of today’s
paper market calling for premium quality tissue obtained with lower
energy use and lower capital investment
than TAD lines. INGENIA’s concept is based
on consolidated technologies for premium
tissue, building on vast internal know-how
of Toscotec’s and Voith’s R&D, and field
data validation on TAD and structured paper
systems.
Paolo Raffaelli, Toscotec Chief Technology
Officer, says: “The key factor for energy
reduction compared to TAD, is that INGENIA
achieves significantly higher dryness through
non-thermal dewatering on a structured
moulding fabric. With TAD, the thermal drying
starts from 24-26%, whereas INGENIA
achieves a much higher dryness level without
using hot air or steam. This maintains the
premium quality obtained through rush transfer
and structured moulding fabric, but uses much
less energy.”

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