Fine Paper Grades

This segment of the paper industry is very challenging as fine papers cover a wide range of different specialty grades such as watermark paper, banknote paper, security paper, copy paper, cast coated paper, printing and writing paper.

However, certain quality standards and demands are common to all of these paper grades.

New production tools, for example inline soft calenders, film presses, new coating pigments on the production side, and increasing demands on the user side such as high-quality laser printing, color printing with high resolution, high throughput on fast printing machines and top-quality appearance of the finished product result in improved surface, printability, runability and format stability for almost every fine paper grade.

Most of the mentioned quality parameters are influenced by the moisture content of the paper. Uneven moisture profiles result in severe quality problems such as an uneven surface, curl problems and caliper problems.To avoid value losses due to lower quality, the control of the moisture content in machine direction as well as in cross machine direction (CD profile) are most important.
VIB Systems has developed technologies and actuators for application on fine paper to improve moisture profiles, to increase machine out put and to minimize broke and quality related rejects.

These are some typical applications for different types of fine paper:

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