On Mechanical Pulp Production for Wood-Containing High-Brightness Paper Grades, 2007 International Mechanical Pulping Conference

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The modern mechanical pulping industry confronts many challenges. These are often related to the reduction of the electrical energy consumption. However, the simultaneous pressure from the paper markets is forcing the industry to develop products, which have superior properties but are also cost-effective from the production perspective and are reasonably priced for the markets. This includes many quality- and production related issues to be considered. As an example, raw material pre-treatments could be applied to the mechanical pulp production, in order to produce “tailor-made” mechanical pulp, suitable for different wood-containing paper grades. When the competition is tough, small differences in the paper quality or process cost-effectiveness can be very significant. This means that development of the pulp/paper products must be connected to the development of the production processes.