The Tomakomai mill. Oji Paper. started producing paper in 1910. It has been modified and upgraded very much since then. Nowadays, it is one of the biggest newsprint mills in the world.
The N-6 Newsprint machine, which is the newest machine in Tomakomai mill, started producingnewsprints in April 1998 in order to stabilize future supplies of newsprints and meet the severe qualityrequirements from the newspaper companies.
The N-6 machine was equipped with a lot of cutting edge technologies. We have been aiming abuilt-up of papermaking technologies at the highest machine speed in the world and improvements ofthe paper quality.
Two and half years passed since the start-up and the machine is being operated at the present machinespeed (1, 450-1, 550m/min) in spite of various troubles. In the near future, we hope that we willoperate the machine at 1, 600m/min by using the operating experience, which we have been getting, and new ideas.
This paper will report four points of the operating experience about the dry end of the N-6 machine.
1. CARB bearings (the newest attempt in Japan)
2. Modified stationary siphons (correspond with CARB bearings)
3. Guiders at the dryer parts (troubles and countermeasures)
4. TNT-C (against the bigger diameter of a parent reel)
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