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Breaking Traditional Maintenance & Reliability Thinking, Paper360º September/October 2022

Kotkamills’ PM1 Rebuild Will Reinforce its Position in Laminated Papers, Paper360º September/October 2022

A Closer Look at Tooling, Paper360º September/October 2022

Review of coating cracking and barrier integrity on paperboard substrates, TAPPI Journal November 2022

ABSTRACT: Barrier packaging formats are major growth areas for the pulp and paper industry. It is technically challenging to maintain barrier properties during converting and end-use applications. Improved manufacturing capabilities and coating formulation knowledge will help maintain barrier integrity and enable growth of barrier products in challenging applications. These improvements will accelerate product development and commercialization, and allow faster response to product performance issues such as cracking. The literature on coating cracking provides knowledge mostly on the effects of coating formulations and to a lesser extent on substrate effects. Despite a large number of publications dedicated to coating failures, the approach to improve coating cracking remains empirical, and the transferability between studies and to real life applications has not been well established. Model development that successfully predicts commercial performance is in its infancy. However, some of these simplified models do a fairly good job predicting experimental data. The current work reviews the state of understanding as regards coating and barrier cracking and highlights the need for more research on cracking and barrier integrity.

The Mechanism of Bonding, TAPPI Journal September 2022

ABSTRACT: Three factors are involved in cellulose bonding--available area, contact, and hydrogen bonding.

SetPoint: The Art of the Future, Paper360º September/October 2022

Over the Wire Summaries, Paper360º September/October 2022

Marking 10 Years of an Industry-Specific First, Paper360º September/October 2022

AF&PA Reports Point to Growth in Both Containerboard and Boxboard, Paper360º September/October 2022

Reliable Wet End Control in the Production Process, Paper360º September/October 2022