Star performer Recard

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Recard designs and builds the world’s most advanced tissue paper machines. The latest customer to benefit from its unrivalled technology is the Star Paper Mill Company of Abu Dhabi. This unique turnkey installation has a capacity of more than 38,000 tons per annum, and has been completed on time and within budget, as Philip Yorke reports.

Recard SpA of Italy is the global leader in the design and manufacture of advanced tissue paper manufacturing equipment. Founded in 1962 as a maintenance workshop in an Italian valley where over 60 paper producing machines were operating, it has grown to become the Rolls Royce brand of tissue manufacturing. Today, in addition to producing cutting-edge machinery, the company also provides maintenance services to paper mills worldwide, including the world’s largest paper production companies.

For more than 55 years Recard has dominated the high-ground in the tissue-paper industry thanks to its engineering craftsmanship and unrivalled practical experience in mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, and heat transfer technologies. Focus on innovation

Recard SpA, is the clear global leader in the design and development of innovative and technologically advanced tissue manufacturing machinery. Recard’s unique systems offer the shortest possible fabrication times and the performance of its tailor-made equipment consistently exceeds specifications. For Recard, cutting-edge technology means simplicity and it remains unmatched in the ease of use of its products and systems. The company’s propriety technology is superior due to the fact that it significantly shortens production cycles and simplifies the installation of its equipment.

Today Recard provides a range of customised solutions that are ready-to-use for the high-speed production of tissue paper products. It

offers complete turnkey plants that range from stock preparation to reel handling with built-in 3D detailed engineering designs. Recard can also provide any package requested by the customer with full technical support, even for parts not directly supplied by the company.

It is this dedicated, one-stop-shop service that helps to optimise production efficiency and consequently its customers’ profits. The latest example is a contract to supply turnkey tissue production lines to the Star Paper Mill Co Ltd. which is located in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

Recard’s scope of supply for this major contract includes two stock preparation lines for long and short virgin fibre, two re-winders with variable-crown calendar to enhance the paper softness, and a Crescent Former with the latest generation of the company’s shoe-press. This state-of-the-art configuration has the capacity to produce more than 38,000 tons of high quality tissue per year. unique rebuild programme

Along with many other innovative products and services, Recard also provides a special ‘Rebuild Programme’ service for the reconditioning and updating of older machines. This utilises the advanced technology of the company’s latest Crescent Former. The Recard Rebuild Programme optimises the production capacity of an entire plant as well as improving the quality of the end product.

This comprehensive upgrade service is based upon simplicity. The parts and technology of the company’s Crescent Former are easily adapted in order to work with older Twin Wire, Sloped Wire and Plain Wire machinery. In addition, thanks to its extensive experience in the reconditioning of machines, even from competing manufacturers, Recard can find an appropriate solution to suit almost any situation.

Armed with the comprehensive information concerning the design of an existing production unit, its current performance expecta-

tions, and following the reconditioning process, Ricard will provide a thorough and complete assessment of its individual operation and cost projection.

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Recard’s latest Crescent Former represents the culmination of many technological advances and improvements all of which are derived from its experience in manufacturing tissue machines since the 1960s. During that time the company was producing Twin Wire C-Formers and Twin Wire S-Formers. The very first Crescent Former was invented in the 1970’s by the multinational conglomerate, the Kimberly Clark Company of the US, which held the patent until the 1990’s. With its on-going technical innovations and more than 55 years of experience in the field of tissue production, Recard guarantees the highest possible levels of performance from its equipment.

Each Recard machine is designed to optimise the real operating speed of any production line and this has been consistently achieved with production-line speeds exceeding 2,000 meters per minute.

Simplicity is the key to the high performance of Recard tissue machinery. Keeping its design and operation simple benefits all concerned and is manifested in every product designed by the company.

For example, Recard’s Rewinders are simplicity itself to use. They allow the operator to cut and pair quickly anywhere from one to four piles, according to each customer’s needs. Furthermore, they complete the production cycle without the need to outsource maintenance services. n

For more details about the Recard’s innovative tissue machines and specialised customer services visit: www.recard.it