Oji Material awards several orders for Dryer Fabric Cleaners to ProJet

The Cleaners will be supplied along with all auxiliary equipment, pumps, control panels, etc. Installation and start-up will be performed by ProJet’s subsidiary in Japan, ProJet Japan Co. Ltd. Based in Tokyo.

Of course, all Power Cleaners will be ProJet’s Power Cleaner 2.0, the upgraded version. The upgrade consists of a smaller cleaner head, more nozzles at higher pressure and improved vacuum/discharge system. The combination of all these improvements is an increased cleaning efficiency, exactly what Oji needed for its Dryer Fabrics.

The Power Cleaner cleans the Dryer Fabrics continuously, 24 hours a day, as long as the machine is running. Older technologies are operated in batch cleaning mode, allowing the dryer fabrics to get dirty first, losing permeability, and then trying to restore that permeability again. This leads to uneven permeability profiles over time, mostly leading to paper quality issues and more broke. Dryer fabric contamination is on the rise due to the increasing use of secondary fibres, recycling of coated broke, increasing use of sheet fillers, an increased use of recycled mill water supplies, and the increased use of process chemicals.

Applying a ProJet Cleaning Solution guarantees consistently clean dryer fabrics from beginning to end of usable dryer fabric life. Consistently clean fabrics deliver the following significant manufacturing advantages:
·No chemical cleaning will be required to maintain fabric cleanliness.
·No shutdowns will be required for fabric cleaning. This will provide increased manufacturing productivity and profitability.
·Maintaining consistently high dryer fabric air permeability increases available dryer capacity.
·Better CD moisture profiles will be maintained.
·Sheet curling, caused by uneven drying, will be eliminated.
·Dryer fabric life will be substantially improved.
·Much less contamination will be deposited on dryers, doctor blades, and felt rolls.