YOUR CHALLENGE:
PUSHING FOR QUALITY HURTS
THROUGHPUT—AND VICE VERSA
When chasing a quality improvement like softness, it’s common to consider furnish changes or chemical additives. But these changes may negatively impact your existing creping process to the point of production disruption—or even reduce creping effectiveness so that gains in expected softness are unachievable.
Conversely, attempts to increase productivity via speeding up can result in increased sheet breaks or quality issues. In the end, trying to solve the quality or productivity problem by avoiding the Yankee coating package can put your assets at risk. At the same time, it prevents you from meeting management and customer expectations for higher quality at a lower cost of production.
YOUR CHALLENGE:
PUSHING FOR QUALITY HURTS THROUGHPUT
—AND VICE VERSA
When chasing a quality improvement like softness, it’s common to consider furnish changes or chemical additives. But these changes may negatively impact your existing creping process to the point of production disruption—or even reduce creping effectiveness so that gains in expected softness are unachievable.
Conversely, attempts to increase productivity via speeding up can result in increased sheet breaks or quality issues. In the end, trying to solve the quality or productivity problem by avoiding the Yankee coating package can put your assets at risk. At the same time, it prevents you from meeting management and customer expectations for higher quality at a lower cost of production.
THE SOLUTION:
OPTIMIZE YOUR CREPING PACKAGE WITHOUT COMPROMISE
If you keep trading quality for productivity (or vice versa) with each process adjustment you make, you’ll never be able to break through to new levels of performance. With Buckman you can:
CONTINUALLY ADAPT CHEMISTY TO PRIORITY NEEDS
Adapt chemistry to your needs, rather than altering your process for the coating package, using custom chemistry packages that match specific chemical properties to your priority use cases and outcomes.
MAKE PROACTIVE ADJUSTMENTS BEFORE ISSUES ARE APPARENT
Identify and react to pending process changes before they impact throughput and quality using diagnostic tools that bring a predictive element to managing your process.
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1. Industry Trends in Graphic Paper, Mark Rushton, Paper360, December 2017
2. Most Consumers Want Sustainable Products and Packaging, Andrew Martins, Business News Daily, June 4, 2019