December 12, 2011 - Metso introduces Fiber to Print software, which links a complete suite of process control, quality management and environmental solutions that collectively optimize the whole chain from pulp production to end-product.
Metso combines the analyzers and controls to stabilize the process, QCS quality control, automated laboratories, as well as advanced controls for end-product management and to optimize productivity. To complement the Fiber to Print solution Metso introduces new online surface & structural measurements and camera based web inspection systems. Fiber to Print is based on data collection and management across the whole process. All the collected data is time-syncronized into one quality report. For example, synchronizing data from Metso Paper Lab automated paper quality laboratory and on-line quality sensors, all the way back to analyzers in pulp preparation, provides a full picture of the quality building process for further optimization.
Customized solutions over the entire production line
Significant reduction in chemical use is achieved with mill wide brightness optimization, which coordinates pulp bleaching to final paper brightness. Printing house reclamations can be significantly reduced by applying new developments in online measuring of paper structural and surface properties. Camera based web inspection and online scanning by optical and imaging based technologies coordinated with upstream wet-end analyzers now provide new and improved tools to predict paper or board print quality earlier than ever.
