Papermaking 101

[ddd150]

unsure if you got that first one?

[mard420]

LOl Buzzz, swing up

[soxman17]

Why didnt you take her on a tour yourself?

[Ccouncilbigman25]

I work for yorktowne paper located in york we make paper for yazoo, and npp york. we are also a small mill running only 2 machines. one that uses a pope reel. Number 2 machine we still break up the sheet by hand. talk about old.

[drstulu]

Thanks for watching Ccouncilbigman25.

I'm glad you liked the video. There is more info about our mill in the video description box.

[PXdungx]

i work for tanmaipaper in vietnam I can got design paper machines you can help me

[Killwhitney6]

I would be fired if i posted a video of our mill. It's interesting to see how it works on other mills because no mill is the same. Have visited various mills who makes various of different products and the process is really fascinating me. Greetings from Sweden

[soxman17]

This must have been shot on the night shift with no bosses around.

[drstulu]

I've been on the Safety committee for years. I also used to write the safety paper for our Mill and I never took any photos or video that I wasnt allowed to take. This isnt rocket science, Its papermaking. You can follow the URLs Ive provided in the Video description for more detailed information about our mill and the processes we use there.

[longhair1955]

Yeah,thanks for posting this,..I finally had a chance to show my Wife what I did for nearly 20 years. Although your machine is quite a bit smaller than the one I was on (200 inch machine). Our mill used to employ over 1,200,..now they are down to ~200,..I left almost 3 years ago,when they offered a buyout/severence package. Miss the money,..not the heat!

[JIMBO15235]

Cool vid, surprised you were allowed to film and ditribute! I work for a paper chemical supplier (kemira). Which mill is this?

[drstulu]

Hello Jimbo15235, This mill is American Eagle Paper Mills. We were featured by Pulp and Paper Mag, a few months ago. We are a small Mill and we have loyal customers because we bend over backwards making sure our customers get exactly what they want. Because of that we do very well even in tough economic times.We are located in Pennsylvania.

[drstulu]

I put a link to our mill website is the description. You might find that interesting also.

[soxman17]

I am a Machine Tender in Bucksport Maine. We are doing well, It was great to have IP sell us. They ruined us after they overpaid Champion for us. What company do you work for. Our new name is Verso.

[Infinite1uk]

Hello Stuart! :)

Wow! Thanks for uploading this video. It's really fascinating. When I get the chance to work in industrial places like that, I often spend a minute or two watching the machinery and the machinists. It's surprising what you can learn. In the past, I have worked with electrical panels that start, switch, check and run machinery like that and it is quite a feeling when you push that green button and see it all spring to life and work in sequence. Nice to see another's trade.

[drstulu]

If possible I'll Take you on a tour of the electrical control rooms. There is also a finishing department and a sheeter that is interesting to watch run also. Then there is furnish prep. The paper machine is just the final step in the papermaking process. It is also a process with very little waste.

It's too bad this isn't smellavision. There are times when rotten stock give off a very interesting aroma.

I'll talk to you later Neil.

Stuart

[soxman17]

Hi... I have worked on a paper machine for 27 years and I cant believe you got away with taping this video. If I had brought in a camera and then put it on You Tube I would have been fired. I work on a slow mahine for our product....2250 fpm and the fastest in my mill is 3800 fpm. Lt wt coated mill in Maine. Business is good for now but the paper industry is losing a lot of business to the internet and Asia.

[jonnyloppy]

cool what speed you running at there then ? notice you blow your sheet on to the next bar, we use a ibs tape feed system.

[drstulu]

This day we were running aroud 1600 ft/min.

It sounds like you work in a papermill so you know that the speed depends on the Grade and basis weight of the paper.

I have never seen an IBS tape feed system.

[jonnyloppy]

yes we make basis weights of 90 to 170 but being an older machine max speed is around 525 metres/minutes but is unstable and blighted with web breaks at those speeds.170 at 340 metres/min most productive

[drstulu]

Pulp and Paper Magazine is going to do an article on our mill soon. When we started up again under new ownership, after Westvaco closed the mill in 2001, a lot of people thought we wouldn't make it work. But here we are in 2008 and we're going strong. Mostly because we really take care of our customers.

[soxman17]

1600 fpm he said

[tsjoencinema]

another kind of paperwork

[drstulu]

You know it, my friend. Who knows, maybe I made some of the paper you have written on. I've been doing this for a lot of years.

Thanks for commenting.

[70sfusion]

Hey, cool. I had no idea paper making was so involved (or noisy). Is this paper being made from "scratch" (if you'll pardon my lack of proper terminology) or recycled. Are the processes similar? BTW, Is that you we saw from the rear at about 4:00?

[drstulu]

We use both recycled and virgin fiber in our paper. We try to use as much recycled fiber as possible. There is an area called furnish prep where they put the furnish together.

Yes, that was me. Part of my job is turning up. That's papermaking terminology for changing spools.

Thanks for checking it out.