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Leading for Change: 2023 TAPPI Award Winners, Paper360º May/June 2023

The Paper360° 2024 TOP 50 POWER LIST, Paper360º July/August 2024

How Much Can Your Mill Save Through Optimization?, Paper360º March/April 2024

Understanding the EUDR: Challenges and Opportunities for the Forest Products Sector, Paper360º September/October 2024

RISI’s European CEO of the Year: Ksenia Sosnina, Ilim Group, Paper360º March/April 2020

RISI’s European CEO of the Year: Ksenia Sosnina, Ilim Group, Paper360º March/April 2020

Papermakers’ Top Issues on Docket for PaperCon 2020, Paper360º March/April 2020

Papermakers’ Top Issues on Docket for PaperCon 2020, Paper360º March/April 2020

´We Must Grow—In All Areas’, Paper360º May/June 2020

´We Must Grow—In All Areas’, Paper360º May/June 2020

Human Capital: The New Metric to Measure, Paper360º May/June 2020

Human Capital: The New Metric to Measure, Paper360º May/June 2020

Editorial: Special coating issue contains highlighted works from TAPPICon 2023, TAPPI Journal November 2023

ABSTRACT: Did you know that TAPPI’s Coating and Graphic Arts Division has changed its name to Coating, Printing, and Surface Enhancement (CPSE) Division? This change occurred mid-year, as our members realized that the new name fits much better with the day-to-day workings of the Division, as well as the broader activities to functionalize and add value to paper and paperboard that continue to expand into new arenas.

Impact of different calendering strategies on barrier coating pickup, TAPPI Journal November 2023

ABSTRACT: Paper was pre-calendered in a pilot scale configuration with a traditional soft nip calender and a metal belt calender. All calendering strategies reduced surface roughness and permeability of the samples, but different strategies affected the surface roughness and permeability differently. The metal belt calender seemed to have a larger effect on the large-scale variations compared to the soft nip calender. Six test points from the pilot calendered papers were chosen for laboratory coating studies. Uncalendered paper was included as reference samples. The calendered samples and the reference were pre-coated with a regular pigmented coating consisting of a ground calcium carbonate (GCC) pigment and a styrene acrylate (SA) latex. Both uncoated and pre-coated substrates were barrier coated with a polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) in one and two layers. The coating pickup was determined gravimetrically, and the barrier properties were evaluated with TAPPI Standard Test Method T 454 grease resistance test. All samples needed two PVOH coating layers to form a grease barrier. The uncalendered sheets showed the best results with one coating layer, but this was at the expense of a higher coating pickup compared to the calendered sheets. The barrier coating pickup could be reduced by a combination of high temperature metal belt calendering and pre-coating. The high temperature and long residence time in the nip enabled plasticization of the fibers. This led to an irreversible deformation, even after water application. This meant that the smoothness obtained during calendering would be less affected by water-induced roughening during the coating operation.