The vertical impingement dryer adds
capacity in the dryer section, thus enabling a production and speed
increase without additional dryer cylinders.
Metso Paper will deliver a vertical impingement dryer to paper machine PM4
of Steinbeis Temming Papier GmbH & Co. in Glückstadt, Germany. The startup
of the dryer is scheduled for May 2009.
The OptiDry will give more drying capacity in the predryer section, thus
enabling an increase of approximately 20 percent in the production capacity. PM4
produces magazine papers for heat-set web offset printing and multi-functional
papers for office use, all from 100 percent recovered paper, with a grammage
range of 57 to 90 g/m2. The machine width is ~15' (4.6 m).
The unit is a rebuild
concept to add drying capacity in the dryer section, thus enabling a production
and speed increase without additional dryer cylinders. The unit can be
installed in an existing dryer section without increasing the machine length,
and with a minimal rebuild of the current dryer, according to Metso.
