Paper and Board Technology
Technical investigation, development and support for the pulp, paper and converting industries
For 70 years Pira and its predecessors have been a centre of knowledge and expertise for paper and board manufacture and end-use. Now, through our associates, we can add pulp technology to our portfolio in recognition of the importance of renewable materials.
Our services include:
- Strategic market insights
- Pulp and raw material optimisation
- Product performance
- Papermaking process development
- Coatings development
- Converting and corrugating optimisation
- Recycling investigations
- Environmental solutions
Our strength is our understanding of the connection between sheet structure and product performance in end-use. This extends up-stream to both virgin and recycled fibre and to filler effects. Pira's practical approach is underpinned by applied research into fibre properties and sheet structure. Our technical resources are reinforced by our Strategic Market and Business Intelligence functions to provide a unique breadth and depth of support for your business.
We understand your business from the development of an idea to the evaluation of a completed product. Pira combines knowledge, experience and inventiveness with integrity, thoroughness and objectivity. We can supply both extra resources and extra knowledge to bring a product to fruition, save time and reduce risk. We can work at your site or at Pira.
How Pira can help you
- New product development: what to produce, for which market and how to do it
- Enhanced product quality: improving raw materials and efficiency, reducing variability
- Technical support and troubleshooting: fibre properties, sheet forming, retention, sizing, surface treatment, calendering, coating, water and effluent
- Fibre development: pulping process optimisation, bleaching, recycling, repulping, deinking, cleaning
Facilities
Pira boasts UKAS-accredited testing laboratories, analytical chemistry facilities, image analysis, sheet forming, surface treatment as well as access to pulping, stock preparation, forming and coating plant.
Contact:
Nigel Jopson
email: nigel.jopson@pira-international.com
Tel:+44 1372 802145
Pira is offering the opportunity for a limited number of sponsors to join with us in a collaborative project with a leading international centre for the nanoanalysis of surfaces in order to develop new means of quantifying fibre surface properties. The outcomes would be equally relevant to virgin, recycled and engineered fibres. Click to see the project proposal. It will start in September 2010 and run for four years. For further details, please contact Nigel Jopson on +44 1372 802145... view document
Read Dr. Graham Moore's paper entitled 'Paper use in a new media world' featured in the 'TAPPI - Ahead of the Curve' eNewsletter on 6 January 2010... view site
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Expert Profile
Nigel is Chief Consultant for paper and board activities at Pira and has over 20 years' experience in paper product development. He has headed multi and single client research into sheet forming, pressing and drying, surface treatment coating and corrugating. As well as contributing to Pira Strategic Futures programmes, he has given conference papers on coating and surface treatment on both sides of the Atlantic.
Chief Consultant, Paper & Board
Paper and Board Technology
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