How to Effectively Judge Press Felt Trials-About Assessing And Improving Paper Machine Clothing Performance, 2021 TAPPICon Live (21TAPL)

Many papermakers have a love‐hate relationship with their Paper Machine Clothing (PMC), and their press felts in particular.

This paper aims to give you the insights you need as a papermaker to effectively judge press felt trials, so that you can increase the machines bottom‐line through better performing felts.

Press felts are probably the mechanical components that change the most over the course of their life in the machine, typically a number of weeks. By connecting output data of the machine with the life of the each felt – and the changing felt properties per day – new insights are gained. 

These insights, presented as fact‐based charts, give both the papermaker and the felt supplier an objective reference to judge the performance of trial, making the process to better press felts faster and more worthwhile. 

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