Latest Paper Machine Clothing Development for Tissue and Toilet Papers

Abstract

Tissue paper manufacturing cost and paper quality are main “key drivers” for the papermakers. With this reality it is imperative that suppliers of paper machine clothing must provide innovative solutions in order to reduce these paper manufacturing cost and attain high sheet quality.
Albany International has developed specific product solutions to high, medium, and low speed tissue machines and for different kind of forming and press technologies like Crescent former and a new machine concept NTT. This paper describes new technology of Paper Machine clothing of forming wire, press felt, and shoe press belt.