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Voith shoe press technology reaches record.


Voith The Voith AG which is headquartered in Germany, is a family-run corporation in the mechanical engineering sector with worldwide operations.

The Voith Corporate Group is led by the Voith AG Headquarters in Heidenheim, located in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
 Paper, Heidenheim, Germany, has begun operations at its NipcoFlex and QualiFlex Research Unit, Heidenheim, Germany. The Research Unit is dimensioned to the size of commercial operations and designed for continuous operation at the highest operating speeds The operating speed of a road is the speed at which motor vehicles generally operate on that road.

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 and nip pressures. The unit was designed with three main objectives:

* Mechanical development of shoe press technology for future requirements

* increased development of QualiFlex press sleeve
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 technology

* Training for operators of NipcoFlex Presses and Voith Service Personnel.

In other Voith News: Voith Paper received a contract from Amcor Cartonboard Australasia, Petrie, Australia for a board machine rebuild to improve the board quality primarily by improved formation. The rebuilt machine will produce coated cartonboard in the 200-470 g/[m.sup.2] basis weight range at 500 m/rain maximum operating speed with maximum production of 630 metric tons/day. Amcor Petrie Mill is already the highest volume producer of coated cartonboard in Australia.

Leipa Georg Leinfelder GmbH, Schwedt, Germany, has selected Voith Paper to expand the mill's recovered fiber system for the production of packaging board on their Number 3 Paper Machine. The order includes an EcoCell flotation flotation
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 plant including flotation pumps and a cleaner plant with EcoMizer technology. Voith will also be responsible for the basic engineering of the process, control, and instrumentation instrumentation, in music: see orchestra and orchestration.
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 supervision and commissioning.
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Title Annotation:Supplier News
Publication:Solutions - for People, Processes and Paper
Date:Apr 1, 2003
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