FTC - Fiber Systems Technology Center
Ravensburg, Germany
Voith Paper
FTC - Fiber Systems Technology Center
Ravensburg
Voith Paper Ravensburg continually advances the state of the papermaking art with processes and systems customized for specific applications. In this context, the Fiber Systems Technology Center (FTC)
carries out stock-preparation tests on primary and secondary furnish
under near-production conditions. We combine the extensive expertise
of all Voith Paper technology divisions in our research and development.
And it shows.
Your challenge:
Quality. Cost-effectiveness. Environmental protection.
Maintaining cost-effective papermaking while sustaining and
advancing product quality demands careful attention to operating cost – especially raw materials, power, and waste disposal.
Today‘s increasingly stringent environmental laws make this
challenge a precarious tightrope to walk.
Your benefits
Voith Paper can help you meet this
challenge. Our Fiber Systems Technology Center staff will partner with
you to determine how best to maximize your quality, lower your costs,
and simplify your systems. Voith
FTC experts will help you analyze
how to get optimal results from your
furnish — including specific ways
you can boost yield and cut down
on power consumption. We take
a precision-targeted approach to
solving your problems, showing you
how to minimize your process risks.
With these facts and resources at
your fingertips, you‘ll know when
and why it makes sense to invest in
progressive modern technologies.
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Prepared for
the future: FTC
The Voith FTC incorporates a
modern stock-preparation line with
all primary machine components
built to industrial scale. A flexible
loop system design lets us test just
about every conceivable system and
subsystem setup and give you
real-world results.
We can test individual machines as
well as entire systems. As new
developments and advances occur,
we systematically integrate them
into our Technology Center lineup.
The entire facility and all its
processes are certified to ISO 9001
requirements.
Once we‘ve talked with you in detail
about your specific problems and
questions, we‘ll work out a systematic test program that will give you
answers tailored to your situation.
We‘ll pinpoint, step by step, the
various places where your processes
can be improved to maximize their
potential. We feed all readings
and machine parameters into a
sophisticated data-management
system, and we‘ll begin laboratory
analysis of stock samples as soon
as the testing process is under way.
You‘ll get a report that details all
testing results, rich with charts and
graphs that highlight and amplify key
findings. This approach enables us
The worldwide Voith test facility
network enables ongoing perfection
of our papermaking and processing
technologies – to the benefit of our
customers.
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to identify and eliminate potential
risk factors early in the project and
to clearly define the scope of work
necessary to complete the project
analysis. In other words, you‘ll know
not only your investment outlay early
on, but you will also know precisely
how your investment will translate
into cost savings for your operation.
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Impressive possibilities
Individual machine tests
Subsystem tests
Overall system tests
The Voith FTC can test not only
entire stock-preparation lines but
also individual machines. This
enables us to separately optimize
each module – including pulping,
screening, flotation, refining and
bleaching – for your specific
requirements. Then we can
demonstrate, for example, which
fillings and power input you need
for optimal refining results at your
facility.
Subsystem tests enable optimal
coordination of individual process
modules. For example, new
concepts for pulping, fractionation,
or flotation systems can be
systematically implemented at the
FTC. This allows for ongoing
improvements in the properties of
the finished paper. To make sure the
results are realistic, stock taken
from your current production can
also be used for the trials.
For ongoing optimization of the
overall process, the FTC incorporates an entire stock-preparation
line. This lets us test various kinds
of furnish in different systems or
variations. As a result, we can
identify ways to reduce your primary
fiber input and use more secondary
furnish – without sacrificing paper
quality. You then benefit simultaneously from lower furnish costs and
the highest possible yield.
HC pulping
laboratory
Drum pulping
Chests and discharge tank
High consistency
cleaning
Heavy and light
weight cleaning
MC-screening
(ø und //)
LC screening
Lab.-Flotation after 12 min
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Flotation EcoCell 1
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Brightness [%ISO]
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Refining
Trail screening
Flotation
Dispersion system
(disc and kneading)
Fractionation
Washing and
thickening
Bleaching
(HC and MC)
Microflotation
Comparison of EcoCell with Lab.-Flotation
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Deflaking
Pilot paper machine and
LC pulping
Modern paper laboratory
The samples we take from our stock
preparation test facility are analyzed
in the FTC laboratory using stateof-the-art techniques. This provides
precise test data as a further basis
for assessing our process-optimization results.
Our laboratory services are also
available to you regardless of
whether you take advantage of
the FTC test facilities. You can,
therefore, benefit from the scientific
know-how of our laboratory specialists for analyzing samples from your
own stock preparation line. We offer
rapid and precisely reproducible
analyses of stock, water, and paper
characteristics, using more than 80
different laboratory methods according to DIN, ISO, TAPPI or SCAN.
of laboratory test data. The results
provide you with a dependable and
conclusive decision-making basis to
support your process-optimization
investments.
We use a professional IT system for
all sample management and logging
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Process support and
Engineering
Process support
Our process-support experts
provide assistance in all aspects
of papermaking, such as troubleshooting, production increases, and
integrating new process modules
or units. We start by analyzing the
present state of your production
line, taking samples and detailed
balances, including evaluation of all
your process technology data. From
these findings, we develop a list of
specific measures to take. In this
way, our process support helps you
make decisions that not only solve
your short-term problems, but also
bring sustainable improvements.
Engineering
Our engineering team supports
you in the planning, concept, and
realization stages of your new
line, along with rebuilds and
expansions. This support starts
with the pre-engineering phase,
when we work out an innovative line
concept with you and tell you just
how much you will have to invest.
Next comes the basic engineering
stage, where we determine both the
necessary process machinery and
groups and the line layout. Finally,
in the detailed engineering phase,
we establish with you precisely
how your new line will be brought
to fruition and installed, rebuilt or
extended.
Joining forces
Rieger paper mill in Trostberg,
Bavaria, produces high-grade
coated paper and corrugated board
from 100 percent recovered paper.
The mill faces ongoing problems
in stock preparation for the cover
layer because of foreign materials,
such as foil, in its furnish. During
tests carried out alongside Rieger
engineers at our Fiber Systems
Technology Center, we developed
a highly effective screening system
for removing these contaminants.
A few months later these excellent
FTC test results were fully confirmed
during commissioning of the actual
machine.
“During tests at the Voith FTC
we were able to compare various
options with our line status at that
time,“ said Christopher Kässberger,
Rieger stock preparation line
manager. “As a result, we found
the best and most cost-effective
solution, based on full-scale
findings.
We were very impressed by the
comprehensiveness of this test
facility, the conclusive test results,
and the professional competence of
Voith Paper’s test engineers”.
Christopher Kässberger, stock preparation line manager
at Rieger paper mill in Trostberg, Germany.
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The design flexibility of the
Fiber Systems Technology Center
allows us to provide customized
support for all your individual
project needs.
Contact us to schedule a trial and
put the power of the Voith FTC
to work for you!
Voith Paper Fiber Systems
GmbH & Co. KG
Escher-Wyss-Str. 25
88212 Ravensburg, Germany
Tel. +49 751 83 01
Fax +49 751 83 2050
info.vpr@voith.com
Voith Paper S.A.
Rua Friedrich von Voith, 825
02995-000 São Paulo-SP, Brazil
Tel. +55 11 3944 4354
Fax +55 11 3944 4848
www.voithpaper.com
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