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Specific Capabilities

 

Raw Material Preparation

  • Chip classifier
  • Domtar chip thickness classifier

Pulping

  • Sprout refiners – 12" diameter
  • Multi-unit digester with individual electric heating
  • Three M/K digesters with indirect heating - approximate volume10 L
  • Two batch digesters with direct or indirect heating - approximate volume 2 ft3
  • Automatic titrator for liquor analysis

Recycled Fiber

  • LamortTM Pulper and Flotation Cell

 

 

 

Bleaching

  • Water baths and sealed bags
  • QuantumTM high shear mixer - 4 L volume
  • CRSTM high shear mixer with gas and liquid injection - 2 L volume
  • Pressurized pin mixer

Pulp Quality

  • Canadian Standard Freeness
  • Valley, Sprout Waldron, Somerville flat screens
  • Bauer-McNett Fiber Classifier
  • Fiber Quality AnalyzerTM
  • Valley Beater
  • PFI Mill
  • TAPPI Handsheets
  • Noble & Wood Handsheets
  • Standard TAPPI Strength Testing
  • PULMACTM Shive Analyser

Equipment

 

 
Screens for chip classification   Pilot digester system with liquor vessels for modified cooking
 
Multi-unit digester with 6 one-liter vessels and individual electric heaters   Close up of vessels
 
HIgh-shear bleaching mixer with ozone injection capabilities   High shear bleaching mixer for bleach stage simulations
 
Screen for pulp contaminant analysis   Computer controlled handsheet press with heated platens for wet-pressing studies
 
Corona discharge unit for paper surface modifications   Pulper for pulp and wastepaper defibering
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