Monday 5 August 2013

A glance at Papermaking and Technical textiles

The growth of industrialization and technology have brought about a paradigm shift in the character of industries as well as methods and means of conducting business in the new global meta-market. There has been great demand and growth in the domain of specialty fibers, forming fabrics, pulp and papermaking and technical textiles.
In addition to this,textiles are different from regular textiles as they are made of the materials and products intended for end-uses with different needs and the fabrics are selected principally for its performance and properties as opposed to its aesthetic or decorative characteristics. The advent of new technology such as special weaving process, nonwoven technique etc has enabled the manufacture of technical textiles.
The recent developments in industrialization have demanded technical textiles to be:
• High resistance to temperature
• Stable under stress and strain
• Fairly strong to absorb impact of highly reactive chemicals etc.
Coming to paper making, it is widely known that paper is made from pulp. However, the pulp can be procured from different sources. The first step is to remove bark from tree stems before processing. Depending on the tree species, the bark may be removed manually in the forests or mechanically in the pulp mill. There are two types of pulping processes:
1. 1. Mechanical pulping.
2. 2. Chemical pulping


Paper made from chemical pulp (i.e. containing little or no mechanical pulp) is often called wood-free paper. The pulp so obtained in brown in color and is bleached to obtain the white paper, as we know. There are many techniques of bleaching that may vary from mill to mill and also the process/sequence being used.
Bleaching is a multi-stage process and chemicals such as chlorine dioxide, oxygen, ozone and hydrogen peroxide are used in combination through different stages. One of the last stages of papermaking is the conversion phase where Paper is made using a specially designed paper machine, which creates a continuous uniform sheet of paper, board or tissue wound together. Most pulp and paper making firms generate several distinct types of residues such as organic wastes that are generated during wastewater treatment and/ or cleaning and Inorganic wastes that are generated during the process and chemical recovery process. One organic residue is sludge that is mainly cellulose Fiber. Secondary sludge includes a variety of materials that have undergone some degree of microbial decomposition.
Talking of industrial use special belts there are different kinds of special belts to suit specific purposes. A basic conveyor belt is a long continuously moving band of rubber, technical textile, or metal, used in a place such as a factory, warehouse or airport to transport hefty freight from one place to another: One type of special belts is woven conveyor belt which is made up of multiple layers of fabrics woven into one piece, Stripes are woven into the belt to indicate the number of plies. Generally the piles range from 2 to 10. Spiral conveyors are more subtle like and suit other specific business needs.
Technology has vastly assisted in the development of more specific industrial products and process to increase utility of machines and reduce wastage.

Author is an online marketer and loves to write on different subjects. With this post he is sharing information on conveyor belts & technical textiles in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Source:- http://www.zimbio.com/Industry/articles/uwsgsegYM1P/glance+Papermaking+Technical+textiles?add=True

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