Paper Technology International 2024 - Journal - Page 38
PAPERTECHNOLOGYINTERNATIONAL
How does this work? Helping the customer?
You keep in touch – with or without orders. You have to be
in touch with your customer at the right time and know who can help
– or 昀椀nd some one who can help. And you never know the right time
until it is knocking at your door:
Ecofario: High-G-Technology for Fibre Loss Reduction
At the end of 2021 a customer called KPNB to 昀椀nd a solution
to a very different process challenge: The specialty paper mill had
introduced new raw material to produce a special paper including a
high content of “grass” 昀椀bres. The stock preparation was essentially
not changed, as the previous grades of paper still had to be
produced. The issue was that the new 昀椀bres are, of course, different
and 昀椀bre loss was high with almost 90% 昀椀bre content in the reject
stock that was analysed in the laboratory.
How to reduce 昀椀bre loss from a new raw material?
Sometimes new raw material can be processed with existing
equipment and other times it calls for new equipment. In this case
the solution was a cleaner with High-G technology from the only
three year old Bavarian company Ecofario, just founded in 2018.
Nicole Buschmeier from KPNB established the direct contact
between the R&D manager of the paper mill and the co-founder of
Ecofario Dr. Sebastian Porkert.
What happened then? The problem was clear, but how
to convince a customer without references, when your company
is brand new? You built a pilot plant. Ecofario worked absolutely
professionally and delivered a plug and play system to the paper
mill. It was installed on a rack and bolted to the wall in order to be
“out of the way” of the operating staff.
Figure 5: Ecofario-Pilot-Installation-2022.
Anaergia Technologies: Fine Reject Separation – the
Maintenance-Friendly Separator FSP-A
In 2017, delivering Christmas presents to a paper mill
producing 100% from recycled paper was a lucky incident: After the
installation of a new cleaner plant in the stock preparation for 昀椀ne
screening, the existing separation equipment for the reject sludge
was no longer delivering a satisfying dry content. The sludge could
not be dewatered well enough for the transport by the disposing
company.
KPNB acts as representative of Anaergia Technologies in the
paper industry in the DACH region. Within six weeks the company
supplied a stainless steel separator FSP-A. The machine was easily
started up and immediately provided a solid dry content above 50 %.
The customer’s production team was extremely happy to get rid of
the sludge and to not worry about the disposal any longer.
Figure 6: Anaergia 昀椀ne reject before and after.
In addition, what mattered to the maintenance staff was
the user-friendly design of the separator. Inspection of screw and
screens is very simple and quickly done due to the separated press
and separating section on a double hinge. The life-time of the
screens was in this case also exceptionally long with more than 14
months. Of course, that varies from application to application.
Figure 7: Anaergia Separator FSPA-opened head section.
“Who doesn’t know Nicole?” - or the company’s colors and advertising.
KPNB can be found at all important events in the DACH region.
Nicole Buschmeier, Owner, KPNB Komponenten+Partner
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