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Artic Paper Munkedals AB “DualXcluder® Protection
Screen solved our major problem” “We quickly discovered that we could run our stock preparation equipment trouble-free much longer after we got rid of the baling wire with the DualXcluder® protection screen delivered by GL&V. This stage, stock preparation for the paper machine, is essential for our entire production process. The pulp on our multigrade machines must be clean, since challenging grade changes take place constantly,” says Operations Manager Jonas Schmachtl, Arctic Paper Munkedals AB, Sweden. “Our customers expect top quality paper products and fast deliveries from us. We have plenty of traditional competence in the industry, which we have developed together with our customers. Our two paper machines are tailored for quick grade changes and for producing our high-quality core products in the extensive grammage range of 60–240 gsm.” Arctic Paper means quality Arctic Paper S.A. is a leading European producer of high quality Graphic Paper. The company delivers over 700 000 tonnes of premium Graphic Paper for quality printing, reading and branding purposes. The products are manufactured and marketed by 1250 employees, three mills and 14 sales offices. Arctic Paper S.A Group have many years of expertise in making Fine Paper. Arctic Paper Grycksbo in Sweden began in 1740. Arctic Paper Munkedals AB, in Sweden as well, was established in 1871 and the mill in Kostrzyn Poland in 1958. Arctic Paper Munkedals AB is located in Munkedal, Sweden, which is 100 kilometres North of Gothenburg. It is situated by the Örekil River, which is considered to be one of the country’s finest salmon rivers. During the last 20 years there have been major investments, and the company values that the mill today is one of the most environmentally-friendly paper mills in the world. With approximately 300 employees and two paper machines Arctic Paper Munkedals AB produces some 160 000 ton/year high quality graphical paper under the brand name Munken and Amber. Munkedals is not an integrated paper mill, which means that the hardwood and softwood pulp is brought to the mill by trucks in bales tied with metal wires. Before the introduction of the protection screen, some the wires were removed before and into the pulper. The hydrocyclones also removed some of them, but the remaining wires damaged the segments of the conical refiners. In 2010, Munkedals contacted GL&V in Kari Urholm, GL&V (left) and Jonas Schmachtl, Arctic Paper Munkedals AB: “Munkedals purchased the first DualXcluder® protection screen in 2015 and a second one in spring 2017. Munkedals now uses protection screen to remove baling wires on the stock lines of both of their paper machines.” order to solve the problem. That is when Kari Urholm, Sales Engineer for the DualXcluder protection screen product group, paid his first visit to the mill. “Tommy Ekström, who was in charge of production at the time, was very agitated since it was a major problem. Baling wires were ending up in the production process, and the mill urgently needed a solution. They had already invested in a dewiring machine, but it didn’t work as expected,” says Urholm.