VER 3754 - 5613 mm Paper Machine for Newsprint

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Production capacity: 463 Tpd, producing paper 27.6 to 34 lbs per 3300 sq.ft
Basis range: 44 to 55 g/m²
Manufacturer: Beloit, 1976
Speed: 1300 m/min
Furnish used: softwood 100% (40% semi bleached kraft, 60% stone ground wood) and broke 20 - 40% and ash 1%
Right hand drive from headbox

Stock approach
Primary fan pump is a Goulds MD 2420L with a 1000 Hp motor
Secondary fan pump is a Goulds MD 2420L with a 1000 Hp motor
The motor has a variable DC speed drive
Clark and Vacario Decultaor and 6 Nash vacuum pumps models CL 4000 and CL 702

Refiners
Kraft refiner Beloit DD series 4000 with 30” discs

Pressure screens
Beloit Bird model B40 primary
Beloit model centriscreen 10 secondary
Bird model 24 vibrating screen for tertiary rejects with 1 mm holes

LD cleaners
Celleco Cleanpak model 300 primary cleaners in 2 banks through secondary system with RCC Celleco 410 bank
This machine has a Clark and Vicario Deculator on the roof for air removal from stock

Headbox / forming section
Beloit Converflo design with 7 Lexan sheets
New Aquaflat apron, in 316L stainless steel, installed 1995
Forming section Bel Baie 11
9 retention blades followed by a 12” vacuum box (6 “ Hg)
Vacuum deflector and double doctored couch roll
Flooded nip shower

Press sections
Beloit tri nip press
Venta-Nip bottom press with loading 400 pli
Stainless suction roll with a Poly-dyne cover blind drilled and loading 500 pli
Granite roll and CC poly covered roll second press and third press 600 pli
2 x Uhle boxes on pick up, one on third and bottom felts (ceramic coated rods with 1.5”openings)
All felts and rolls have oscillating high pressure showers
Vacuum is from 3 Nash 14002 pumps for the press section and 2 Nash 14002 for the couch roll

Dryer section
Total of 39 drying cylinders with a Ø of 2194 mm in 3 sections
First section dryers 1 to 11 are uni–run with no steam on the bottom dryers
Second section dryers 12 to 25 are double felted
Third section dryers 26 to 39 are double felted
All dryers have internal spoiler bars and stationary siphons which were installed in 1996
Dryers have bolted ends, blow through steam control, Measurex controlled spray bar for moisture and profile control
The dryers are equipped with hood exhaust and pocket ventilation fans Valmet blow boxes in Uni-run section and a double press run blow box to stabilize the sheet from the granite roll, installed with 3 drive sections
Central lubrication systems and A/F bearings

Calender
Six roll calender stack with Beloit versa-nip, with CC roll in the king and D roll positions
Rolls are water controlled on some rolls and the caliper profiler is a Cal-trol with 3000 watt heaters on 3” centres
Fibron tail feed system

Scanner
Measurex model 2002 scanner measuring basis weight, caliper, moisture, brightness, thermatrol, caltrol and moistrol actuators

Pope reel
Beloit horizontal track pope reel with a 914 mm Ø grooved drum and 12 rubber covered reel shells
Dry end pulper with 2 vertical rotors

Rewinder
Beloit Super L with 10 web driven slitters
Drive Reliance manufacture
Maxline analog installed 1975
Gearboxes driving via 2 motors
Unwind has a break generator; rewind Ø 1524 mm and shaftless rewind

Machine house has 2 overhead cranes