Kadant AES Receives Follow-On Order for Stock Approach System
QUEENSBURY, New York, March 5, 2007 – Kadant AES, a division of Kadant Inc., has received a follow-on order for its Octopus™ stock approach system from Kobayashi Engineering Works Ltd., based in Fuji City, Japan. The Octopus systems will include consistency-profiling controls and will be installed at a Chinese linerboard manufacturer. The 220-inch wide machines will manufacture linerboard at 800 meters per minute and are scheduled for start up in 2008. Kadant’s Octopus system will be used in place of conventional tapered inlets, to reduce cross machine variation and control overall sheet profile.
First introduced in 1995, the Octopus system has been successfully used to supply vats, hydraulic formers, and both air pad and hydraulic headboxes with uniform flows across the width of the paper machine without the need for recirculation. As a result, dry weight variation and costly paper waste due to uneven profile variation are reduced.
Charlie Pound, Manager-Forming Systems, at Kadant AES, commented, “The Octopus stock approach system provides an innovative solution to improve CD profile, allows for quicker grade changes, lower energy consumption, and improved product quality. These advantages have given us the ability to help papermakers solve forming problems and reduce operating costs.”
Wetted metal parts of the Octopus system are available in 316L stainless steel, and a radial-type distributor provides uniform CD flow to the former or vat independent of total flow rate. The system, which may be equipped with dilution profile control, also addresses pulsation caused by fan pumps and pressure screens using automatic air pad pressure compensation control to dampen potential pulsation and reduce entrained air.
Kadant AES, based in Queensbury, New York, is a leading provider of products and technologies primarily applied to the forming of paper in the wet end of the paper machine, the cleaning of forming fabrics and press fabrics, and filtration of process water throughout the papermaking process.
Kadant Inc. is a leading supplier to the global pulp and paper industry, with a range of products and services for improving efficiency and quality in pulp and paper production, including paper machine accessories and systems for stock preparation, fluid handling, and water management. Our fluid-handling products are also used to optimize production in the steel, rubber, plastics, food, and textile industries. In addition, we produce granules from papermaking byproducts for agricultural and lawn and garden applications. Kadant is based in Westford, Massachusetts, with revenues of $342 million in 2006 and 2,000 employees in 16 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.kadant.com.
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