Wiki-Tissue
Table of Contents — Categories and structure
Wiki-Tissue is a new reference source being created as part of the TissueStory project. Until now, there has been no existing source of knowledge that brings together information about all the various positive and interesting aspects – including Hygiene, Environmental and Technology – of the tissue paper products business. Wiki-Tissue will be built in a step-by-step process, with the content carefully controlled and checked.
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Chapter 1. Tissue Products & their Hygiene Benefits
1. USA Today: Hand dryers suck in fecal bacteria and blow it all over your hands
2. Paper Towels might have helped avoid spread of deadly cholera outbreaks
3. Even Prince Charles is avoiding washroom air dryers – Paper towels vs Blow dryers
4. Appreciating Tissue Paper Products: Have you ever really thought about them?
5. This is Tissue – And It’s Good for You
Tissue provides economical and efficient hygiene benefits to humanity to improve health, hygiene, comfort and convenience. This chapter will cover these various benefits from numerous different angles.
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Chapter 2. Environmental & Sustainability Aspects of Tissue
1. Tissue: A Sustainability Star
2. Sofidel and Sustainability: Pushing the Boundaries, for Good
3. Fiberpack® – Innovative carton recycling that even benefits wheelchair visits on Venice gondolas
Selected future topics:
Renewability of forests & wood fibers
Forestry & economics of fiber supply
Renewable forests & CO2 reduction
Trees are superb creations, producing easily-renewable cellulose wood fibers while sucking in and absorbing CO2 and thereby releasing oxygen. This chapter will cover the environmental story of the tissue making process, focusing quite a bit on the most important raw material, renewable cellulose wood fibers.
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Chapter 3. Tissue Machine Technology and Operations
1. eTAD and QRT – New tissue machine designs aim to fill market gaps
2. The Effect of Retention Aids on Yankee Coatings
5. Conventional Crescent Former
7. Air Side Drying Developments
8. Yankee Steam & Condensate Cookbook
9. Drying Strategies: Yankee dryer & Air hood balance
10. Retention Aids – A Versatile Tool for Tissue Manufacture
11. Chrome-free Yankee metallizing reduces potential safety issues
12. Andritz starts TIAC pilot machine to catalyze new tissue quality developments
16. 100% Carbon Fiber Expanding Shaft
17. PrimeLine TEX tissue machine and quality exceeds expectations
18. Technologies to reduce carbon emissions in tissue production
The tissue machine is a complex, advanced and impressive feat of engineering. This chapter will go through the various functions and sections of the paper machine. This includes the headbox and forming section, pressing and drying, creping and reeling into the jumbo reel, as well as the auxiliary operations involved in making the tissue sheet.
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Chapter 4. Troubleshooting
1. I Am in Spec . . . but Where Did my Softness Go?
2. Tissue Sheet Softness – Theory, measurement, and chemical applications which can improve it
3. Yankee Steam & Condensate Cookbook
4. Forward Engineering on the Yankee
5. Creping Basics and Principles
6. Drying Strategies: Yankee dryer & Air hood balance
7. Chrome-free Yankee metallizing reduces potential safety issues
8. Good Vibrations: Controlling creping blade vibration for better day-to-day and long-term performance
Getting expert advice, rather than ‘reinventing the wheel’, can help tissuemakers solve problems and issues that are challenging them. This chapter will continue to grow with information and insight that can be helpful to you in achieving the best tissue quality, machine speeds and profitability.
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Chapter 5. Softness & Sheet Structure
1. I Am in Spec . . . but Where Did my Softness Go?
2. Tissue Sheet Softness – Theory, measurement, and chemical applications which can improve it
Softness is one of the very most important characteristics of tissue paper products. But the perception and measurement of softness is very difficult to quantify, making it a complex subject. In addition, because consumer preferences differ so extremely widely throughout the world, softness is valued more in certain markets than others.
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Chapter 6. Fibers, Fiber Treatment & Processing
1. Processing Recycle-Based Fibers for Tissue & Towel
2. Market pulp: Tissue has become the biggest global buyer
Selected future topics:
Fiber morphology & influence on sheet properties
Hardwoods versus softwoods
Non-Wood fibers in tissue making
Wood fibers are by far the most important, and costly, raw material going into making tissue paper products. These small hair-like strands are actually advanced biopolymers based on cellulose, the most abundant organic compound on earth. This chapter will cover the morphology, chemistry and physics of these fibers and how high-tech engineering can customize them to get the optimal performance of the tissue sheet.
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Chapter 7. Absorption of Liquids
One of the most important functions of tissue paper products is absorption of liquids. Building absorbency into tissue products is done by various methods, depending on the requirements of the market. This chapter will cover topics such as Absorption capacity & rate, Water holding capacity & tenacity, and the influence of the sheet structure.
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Chapter 8. Chemistry of Tissue Making
1. Tissue Sheet Softness – Theory, measurement, and chemical applications which can improve it
2. The Effect of Retention Aids on Yankee Coatings
3. Retention Aids – A Versatile Tool for Tissue Manufacture
Paper Chemistry is a special discipline involving chemistry and chemical engineering. Based on the use of various chemicals and functional additives in the tissue making process, a wide variety of tailor-made properties can be built into the sheet to improve and optimize it. This chapter will discuss the use of chemicals throughout the tissue making and converting process.
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Chapter 9. Converting of Tissue
1. Tissue Embossing Developments
Converting mainly involves cutting the jumbo reels which come off the paper machine into smaller rolls and folded products that go to the market. During the high speed and precise process, additional economic value and important functional properties can be added to the tissue products at the same time. This chapter will cover converting processes including rewinding, embossing, printing, cutting and folding.
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Chapter 10. Packaging, Wrapping & Logistics
Packaging and Wrapping play a very important role both for protecting and enhancing the appearance of tissue paper products on their way to the market and the consumer. Advanced engineering, mechanics, robotics and data handling is involved in these critical operations.
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Chapter 11. Automation, Big Data & Process Optimization
The tissue making and converting process is continually being “digitalized” to make use of ever-growing data sources which can help run the process better, save raw materials and resources, and ultimately generate higher profitability. This chapter will look at the numerous diverse ways in which this is being done, and how it will grow in the era of Big Data and Industry 4.0. The key is to turn big data into rich, usable data and act upon it.
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Chapter 12. Quality Control
Quality control used to be done after the product was made. Modern methods of quality control are much more proactive, involving not only online inspection and reporting, but even more advanced “preventative” quality control that is being used by the most advanced companies. This chapter will cover these topics and how they can be applied to tissue making.
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Chapter 13. Interviews and People
Here we present talks and interviews with interesting tissue industry people.
1. Kroger USA Tissue Buyer: Patrick Boateng
If you wish to suggest people we should talk with, let us know via this link – Contact Us
Other Chapters/Sections can and will be easily added to Wiki-Tissue as needed. If you wish to suggest ideas for topics and content, you are welcome to get in touch via the contact function on the site. Contact Us
