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Formability and load-bearing capacity of multilayered paperboard in three-dimensional forming, TAPPI Journal August 2025
ABSTRACT: The forming of paper-based products presents significant challenges, including maintaining geometric integrity, managing springback, and overcoming instability limits. These arise from the material properties of paper, with its high anisotropy, inhomogeneity, and limited strain. Multilayered paperboard, formed without adhesives, offers a promising solution. By customizing layer composition and orientation, this approach leverages mutual fiber support to enhance forming properties. Experimental and numerical analyses reveal that adhesive-free bonding during deep drawing enhances the material’s formability and load-bearing capacity and reduces anisotropic springback. These innovations enable superior product protection compared to conventional industrial single-layered paperboard of similar thickness. This study demonstrates the advantages of tailored layer configurations for improved geometric precision and stability, providing a pathway for sustainable, high-performance packaging solutions.
Journal articles
Formability and load-bearing capacity of multilayered paperboard in three-dimensional forming, TAPPI Journal August 2025
ABSTRACT: The forming of paper-based products presents significant challenges, including maintaining geometric integrity, managing springback, and overcoming instability limits. These arise from the material properties of paper, with its high anisotropy, inhomogeneity, and limited strain. Multilayered paperboard, formed without adhesives, offers a promising solution. By customizing layer composition and orientation, this approach leverages mutual fiber support to enhance forming properties. Experimental and numerical analyses reveal that adhesive-free bonding during deep drawing enhances the material’s formability and load-bearing capacity and reduces anisotropic springback. These innovations enable superior product protection compared to conventional industrial single-layered paperboard of similar thickness. This study demonstrates the advantages of tailored layer configurations for improved geometric precision and stability, providing a pathway for sustainable, high-performance packaging solutions.
Videos
AI: Catalyzing Progress in the Pulp and Paper Sector
This TAPPI webinar explores how AI catalyzes progress in the pulp and paper sector, addressing industry challenges including rising input costs, declining pulp quality, and workforce turnover. Vipin, CEO of Haber, presents real-world success stories demonstrating AI-driven process control applications that reduce quality variation by up to 25%, increase productivity up to 10%, and optimize chemical consumption. The presentation covers machine learning models for bleaching optimization, refiner management, and wet tensile control, showing significant cost savings and operational improvements. Mid-career professionals gain advanced technical insights into implementing predictive maintenance, demand forecasting, and root cause analysis solutions across pulp mills and paper manufacturing operations.
Videos
Optimizing Pedestrian Safety with Six Sigma and Cutting-Edge Anti-Collision Systems Webinar
Learn how to optimize pedestrian safety in manufacturing facilities using Six Sigma methodology combined with advanced anti-collision systems. John Faiola demonstrates how continuous data monitoring from LTPS technology sensors and AI cameras provides unbiased, real-time safety metrics that enable proactive accident prevention. This webinar covers the complete DMAIC process applied to safety as a final product, featuring a case study showing how one paper mill reduced 5,700 medium-risk interactions through data-driven solutions. Mid-career professionals will discover actionable strategies for implementing safety improvements, reducing insurance premiums, and demonstrating ROI to leadership while building stronger safety cultures in their operations.
Podcasts
Better Together: 2024SuperCorrExpo Live! - Episode 2
Industry leaders share insights from SuperCore Expo 2024, covering breakthrough technologies transforming corrugated manufacturing operations. From Red List Software's GPS-like maintenance guidance to 210 Technologies' AI-powered business intelligence, experts discuss practical solutions for productivity challenges mid-career professionals face daily. Topics include Harper Love's waste reduction strategies, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' innovation focus on independent corrugators, and Valmet's scalable IQ automation systems. This episode delivers actionable insights on advanced lubrication management, data analytics implementation, moisture control technology, and equipment optimization strategies that directly impact operational efficiency and bottom-line results for plant managers and R&D leaders.
Videos
Wood Materials for Optics and Photonics Webinar
Dr. Guido Panza presents breakthrough research on wood materials for optics and photonics, demonstrating how traditional wood can be transformed into advanced optical materials through innovative processing techniques. This comprehensive webinar covers transparent wood applications, structurally colored wood surfaces, luminescent wood membranes, and even wood-based lasers. Plant and operations managers will discover scalable manufacturing approaches for sustainable optical materials that offer superior thermal stability compared to plastic alternatives. The presentation reveals practical applications including smart windows, environmental sensors, anti-counterfeiting materials, and energy-efficient lighting solutions, positioning wood as a viable alternative to conventional optical materials while maintaining cost-effectiveness and environmental sustainability for industrial implementation.
Videos
Efficient Production of Bio-Based Ingredients
Bloom Biorenewables is pioneering sustainable chemistry by transforming agricultural waste like wood chips, straw, and nutshells into high-performance materials that match or outperform fossil fuel alternatives. Using their proprietary aldehyde-assisted fractionation process, the company extracts lignin, hemicellulose, and cellulose to create renewable building blocks for polyurethane foams, cosmetic antioxidants, and biodegradable bioplastics. This breakthrough technology offers early-career professionals in paper, packaging, and sustainability sectors concrete examples of how advanced chemistry enables circular economy solutions, providing scalable pathways from waste streams to commercial applications while reducing carbon footprints across construction, cosmetics, and materials industries.
Journal articles
Voith Celebrates Over 40 Years of NipcoFlex Technology
Voith celebrates 40 years of NipcoFlex shoe press technology, which has transformed paper manufacturing across 700+ installations worldwide since 1984. This proven technology delivers maximum production output through high press impulse and optimal pressure gradients while minimizing energy costs and enabling efficient drainage at high speeds. Senior industry professionals recognize NipcoFlex as a cornerstone innovation that permanently changed manufacturing standards. Voith continues advancing the technology with next-generation HighPerformance Press systems showing over 4% steam savings, reinforcing the company's leadership in sustainable paper production solutions for both new installations and retrofit applications.
Journal articles
Climate action – a Key Part of Södra’s Sustainability Work
Sodra demonstrates industry leadership in sustainable forest management and climate action through science-based targets aligned with Paris Agreement goals. The company targets 50% reduction in direct and indirect fossil emissions by 2030, implementing concrete initiatives including electric transport infrastructure, renewable energy investments, and value chain collaboration. For operations and R&D professionals, Sodra's structured approach offers benchmarking opportunities through business-area specific climate action plans, supplier requirement frameworks, and innovative solutions like conscious delivery programs. These measurable sustainability strategies provide clear ROI metrics while advancing forest industry decarbonization and biodiversity enhancement across the complete value chain.
Journal articles
Essity’s New Business Areas - Proforma Reporting of Latest Results
Essity announces strategic business area reorganization effective January 1, 2026, restructuring from three to four divisions: Health & Medical, Personal Care, Consumer Tissue, and Professional Hygiene. This organizational transformation aims to accelerate growth rates and achieve financial targets more rapidly. The restructuring separates consumer and healthcare incontinence products while maintaining strong market positions across global brands like TENA, Tork, and Lotus. New proforma financial reporting shows Consumer Tissue leading with 31% of group sales, followed by Professional Hygiene at 26%, Personal Care at 23%, and Health & Medical at 20%. The reorganization positions Essity for enhanced operational efficiency and market-focused innovation across its hygiene and health solutions portfolio.