Your Pathway to the
Mill of the Future

The only catch? Your production variables are skyrocketing, too.

Variation Causes Issues

Variation Causes Issues

Your mills are living with variability that directly impacts output quality, which could endanger your customer relationships and your ultimate revenue opportunity.

Chemistry Can Only Do So Much

Chemistry Can Only
Do So Much

As cost pressures increase and with performance at stake, it’s critical to understand the implications of too much or too little defoamer use.

Each Paper Machine Is Operated Differently

Each Paper Machine Is Operated Differently

Employing different philosophies and processes for controlling entrained air makes it impossible for you to benchmark and develop best practices.

Trying to measure and manage this matrix of different variables
carries immediate and long-term consequences.

What Are the Risks?

What are the risks?

  • Your papermaking operations face slowdowns or stoppages because of downtime.
  • Your costs creep up through excessive variability, troubleshooting, and chemical usage.
  • You risk breaks or defects that prevent you from hitting production goals and quality standards.

Continuing to manage your variables with manual tests, limited process controls, and varying production standards just gives you even more variables—resulting in slowdowns, excessive costs, and quality issues.

Instead of focusing only on variables you can see—you need to concentrate your greatest focus on the variable you can’t: entrained air.

To do that, you must overcome three main challenges: removing entrained air as a root cause of variability, achieving best-in-class defoamer use, and standardizing your air control strategy.

Which of These Challenges Resonates Most?

VARIATION IN THE PAPERMAKING PROCESS CAUSES ISSUES

CHEMISTRY
HAS
LIMITATIONS

EACH PAPER
MACHINE IS
OPERATED DIFFERENTLY


1. “Uncertainty in Forest Products Markets: The risk of overlooking the forces driving the next normal,” RISI Fastmarkets Report, July 2020.