VER3554 - Paper Machine for Fine Water Mark to Register, Press Marked, Deep Colours and some Security Papers
Trim at deckle: 2360 mm
Grammage: 80-350 gr/m2
Speed: 200 m/min
Max capacity: 72 Tpd

The drive is on the right from the flowbox, making plain woves, watermarks, felt
A production table for grammages and grades produced is available on request
Produced most of the branded lines, fine watermarks to register and deadband, press marked papers, deep colours, some security products and smooth papers down to 50 Bendsten

Stock preparation
BCI 12' Ø pulper, stainless steel with Volkes rotor batch operation, V rope drive, running 6% consistency
Gearbox drive
Feed by floor mounted conveyor
Back water tank with side entry agitator
Tank wood tower with side entry agitator
Stock refiner: Beloit 20” DD 2000 series
Blend chest/tank number one with side entry agitator
Blend chest /tank number two with side entry agitator
Front broke chest with side entry agitator
Machine chest with side entry agitator
Back water fibre recovery by a Vickery Hydraseive, stainless steel
Trim refiner: Pilao Tri Disc 24”
Broke chest with side entry agitator
LD cleaners are in three stages
Machine screen is a Beloit model 10 stainless steel pressure screen with 0.062” perforated baskets with 0.062” holes
V belt drive

Wire section
Pressure flowbox by Dr. Hogenkamph, stainless steel
20 slice adjusters
Slice width: 2560 mm
Wire width: 2620 mm
Knock down wire frame stainless table
Stainless frame / foil forming board with polyethylene tops
5 Johnson stainless foil units: 2 are vacuum assisted and are complete with silencers
2 suction boxes
Dandy support
Millspaugh suction couch
Thune automatic wire guide
Dandy drives and supports for two dandies
Bertrams shake motion
Breast roll to couch centres: 13 m
Wire 21.5 m length x 2600 mm face

Press section
Press has been rebuilt by Over Meccanica
3 pneumatic loading presses:
  • the first press is a suction type with top granite roll
  • the second press is a plain press
  • the third press is a marker press with patterned rolls

    First dryer section
    Total of 10 dryers
    Face width 2540 mm, Ø 1220 mm, operating pressure: 30 psi
    Rope feed
    Cooper split roller bearings
    Central lubrication
    Thune automatic guides
    Carrier Ross hood over drying sections with front opening sliding doors
    Dryers are open gear drive CI

    Second dryer section
    12 cylinders as first section

    Size press
    Inclined size press, pneumatic loaded
    Roll face: 2480 mm, Ø 410 mm
    Size screen, pumps and tanks at rear of machine

    Third dryer section
    8 cylinders as first section

    Calender
    5 roll calender with a two Kuster rolls
    A/F bearings, hydraulic loaded, 2640 mm face
    Rope feed also air assistance

    Measurex head measuring basis weight, profile, moisture and ash
    Measurex cross machine caliper control through a Caltrol unit installed on the calender section
    A Multiperm NT.99 online porosity measuring head controls the trim refiner loading
    The Measurex colour head controls dye addition through a metering pump system

    Tusa tape paper transfer system on to the drum reel
    Bertrams horizontal reel up with pneumatic operation. Maximum roll Ø 1500 mm

    Machine drive is a line shaft to the dryers with a Eurotherm sectional electric to the wire presses, calender and the drum reel up

    Vacuum system comprises 2 Nash 2001, 2 Drysdale 4VA and 2 fans for wire foils
    All pumps complete with separators and silencers

    Machine spare rolls Drying cylinder 54” set of size press rolls, felt roll and underwire roll