Tissue Technology Bringing the right products and people to your papermaking
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Tissue Technology Bringing the right products and people to your papermaking Ashland Water Technologies is dedicated to helping pulp and paper mills operate more efficiently and profitably. We offer a state-of-the-art product portfolio that addresses nearly every aspect of papermaking. Our highly skilled team of field sales representatives, applications engineers, and research scientists ensure our products work in your specific mill environment. By bringing together the best of both worlds — innovative chemistries and innovative people — Ashland is setting the standard in papermaking excellence. Tissue makers have to face consumer demands every day — demands for softer, stronger and more absorbent products at no extra cost. Whether producing premium brands or value brands for consumers or the awayfrom-home market, the need to improve product quality and machine productivity never ends. Sometimes these conflicting demands seem impossible to reconcile. You can reduce cost by increasing machine speed and substituting lower-cost fibers, but this can come at the expense of product quality. Slowing down can improve product softness, but can result in a higher cost. Our Tissue portfolio Includes: Creping Adhesive Technology Our technology controls adhesion between the tissue and the Yankee cylinder under variable operating conditions, including the extremes of high or low moisture and high temperatures. Key benefits include: • Surface protection for the cylinder products that provide exceptional protection. Other key benefits are: • Longer run times and higher production potential • Overall improvement of the coating film formation • Prolonged doctor blade life “Our commitment to innovation leads to superior results for our customers, for consumers, and for the • Increased production speed • Easier start-up after regrinds • Improved creping uniformity Release Technology • Improved doctor blade life • Improved heat transfer to reduce energy costs This technology provides you with a consistent and uniform coating film to aid in the release of the sheet from the Yankee cylinder. Benefits include: • Improved softness and hand-feel As the world’s largest supplier of creping technology to the tissue industry, Ashland provides integrated solutions that are designed and formulated to help you meet your specific needs. Chemicals that improve the tissuemaking operation, when combined with Ashland’s hands-on approach, can resolve your particular tissue production and quality issues. • Increased doctor blade life New patented fully crosslinked creping adhesives open up the operating window on the machine, allowing improved machine efficiencies and reduced energy consumption on any Yankee surface. • Control of coating buildup Coating Modifier Technology To control rewettability, coating development, rheology, and uniformity, our technology modifies the adhesive coating. Key benefits include: • Controlled adhesion • Bulk/caliper improvements • Increased stretch • Coating uniformity Yankee Cylinder Conditioning Technology You can extend the operational life of the Yankee cylinder with our specifically developed conditioning • Improved ply bonding in converting • Yankee cylinder edge control New multifunctional release agents change the technology curve to add additional sheet properties, such as improved softness or increased absorbency. Debonder and Softener Technology These products are specifically formulated to ensure and enhance surface smoothness, bulk softness, and hand-feel of tissue products. Other benefits are: • Increased sheet flexibility • Enhanced creping efficiency Through research and application experience in all stages of the tissue production process, we ensure that our tissue technology meets all of your expectations. With good chemistry great things happen.™

Superior performance has resulted in: • Uniform adhesion • High wet tack • Cylinder surface protection • Longer doctor blade life Total Tissue Application Systems Having the right products is only part of your complete solution. Feed system design is also critical. To ensure total optimization of our tissue technology, Ashland has developed an application-specific feed system, which consists of three components: • Improved heat transfer • Computerized feed technology and data collection system • Less sheet transfer problems • Windows*-based data management software • Increased softness and...