ATMOS Premium Tissue I Energy efficiency – A challenge for ... - Voith

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ATMOS Premium Tissue –
35% energy savings and much lower investment costs
For more than 30 years, premium tissue was produced only by
the largest tissue paper producers, using Through Air Drying (TAD)
technology. Only they could afford the high capital investment
involved and the high production costs mainly attributable to
energy consumption. But the innovative Voith ATMOS technology
has changed this situation. ATMOS technology was developed at
the Voith Tissue Process Technology Center in São Paulo, Brazil
in close teamwork with Voith Paper Fabrics. Thanks to this development,
premium tissue can be produced at much lower investment
and energy costs, also saving fiber and even using 100% recovered
paper furnish.
We first reported on Voith ATMOS
(Advanced Tissue Molding System)
technology for premium tissue production
in twogether 22. This joint
achievement, involving innovation
input from various Voith Paper
Divisions, shows once again how
much customers benefit from our
interdivisional synergies. The big
advantage of this technology is that
for premium tissue production it consumes
35% less energy than TAD
and the investment costs are much
lower. Depending on application, it
also enables fiber savings and the
use of 100% recovered paper furnish.
24 I 2007 I Voith Paper I twogether