Paper manufacturing is a booming global industry, providing essential paper products, including hygienic paper, nappies and paper towels.
In converting facilities, uptime is essential for keeping production running, ensuring consistent quality and quantity of paper output — and meeting customer expectations.
Over the years, we’ve worked closely with various customers in the paper industry, and we understand their pain points.
Ensuring converting facility and paper mill equipment uptime
Maintaining uptime is one of the biggest challenges facing pulp and paper mills. When a key component like a motor or servo drive breaks down, this can disrupt production significantly.
Securing the necessary spares can be a challenge, but we can help. We are a servicing engineering specialist, and we hold critical spare parts that are now obsolete. However, we’re more than just a supplier. Using our knowledge of the tissue and paper industry, we can adapt to your needs.
To find out what spare parts we stock, contact us.
Boosting quality and productivity
We provide an extensive range of sensors, allowing you to monitor equipment positioning, count and verify sheets and perform other key functions.
Our sensors include:
- Detection sensors
- Photoelectric sensors
- Inductive proximity sensors
Like any production site, paper-converting facilities contain equipment and machinery that could pose a risk to staff.
We offer a range of scanners, sensors and other devices that can help safeguard your converting equipment and keep people away from danger. These include:
- Safety laser scanners
- Safety distance sensors
- Lighting curtains
The challenge of paper mill power
Both converting facilities and pulp and paper mills can be affected by poor power quality. Power disruptions and fluctuations can be costly as well as frustrating. Without proper mitigation, these can cause anything from short, sharp outages to lasting equipment damage.
You can easily spend hours trying to find the cause of your facility’s power outage — and still not get to the bottom of things.
Poor power quality can come from many sources, so rapid detection and mitigation are essential for protecting converting and mill machinery.
Depending on the issue, you might never know it was there without sophisticated measurement. For example, transients can appear, cause lasting damage, and disappear in a few millionths of a second. Meanwhile, a typical voltage spike lasts one to 30 microseconds and can reach over 1,000 volts.
Using power quality meters, engineers can strategically sample the AC voltage supplying pulp and paper facilities at different points and locations. They can also capture slowly changing variations in the electrical waveform.
Keep your converting and paper mill equipment running
If you’re struggling to get hold of the right spare parts or sensors, or if you’re worried about poor power quality, contact us to find out how we can help.
