Fripa Papierfabrik Albert Friedrich has started up a TT NextPress shoe press supplied by Toscotec at their Miltenberg mill in Germany. The new shoe press has been operating efficiently for a few months and has fully achieved the targets of the rebuild.
Resulting from R&D activities in cooperation with Voith, Toscotec’s new generation design of TT NextPress shoe press delivers superior dewatering performances and energy savings. It ensures a stable after-press dryness rate of more than 45% on a tissue line operating at a speed of 2,100 m/min, thereby guaranteeing a substantial energy consumption reduction, due to the fact that the Yankee and the hoods use significantly less thermal energy to complete the drying process.
TT NextPress offers maximum operational accuracy thanks to multiple independent pressure zones. This design ensures a perfect fit between the shoe and previously existing old technology cast iron Yankee deformation and maximizes the lifetime of the machine’s clothing.
Founded in 1911, Fripa is one of the most modern and largest manufacturers of hygiene paper in Germany. It is headquartered in Miltenberg, Germany, where it operates three paper machines and several converting plants, and has two distribution warehouses in Düren and Berlin.
Toscotec designs and manufactures machines, systems and components for the production of Tissue and Paper & Board, offering proprietary solutions to the world's leading paper industries.
