TNPL's R&D Division Developes High Opacity Paper and CBB

TNPL's R&D Division Developes High Opacity Paper and CBB

Chennai | 26 August 2019 | The Pulp and Paper Times: 

A Circular Economy is a regenerative system in which resource input, waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimized by slowing, closing, and narrowing energy and material loops. This can be achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, recycling, and upcycling. This is in contrast to a linear economy which is a 'take, make dispose' model of production. TNPL's Research & Development (R & D) is focusing on the above concept to save the universe. The various activities adopted are enumerated like High Opacity Paper and Carry Bag Base Paper (CBB).

High Opacity Paper: 

R & D has developed a high opacity product called CRH, which has higher opacity (min 88.0%), and high scatter. Using the specific pigments like sodium, magnesium, aluminum silicate, the high level of opacity has been achieved, which is quite challenging with lower ash and lower gsm. A sequential approach has been followed to achieve this high opacity and high scatter which has resulted in a positive way to manufacture this product effortlessly. Feedback from the customers about this product is encouraging and the product is at par with their expectations.

Carry Bag Base Paper: 

A new product called Carry Bag Base Paper (CBB) with higher strength has been developed by R&D team with the objective to replace one-time use plastic carry bags banned by Tamil Nadu Government. The trial production has been taken in the month of November 2018. The specification of the new product was established and the carry bag base paper (CBB) was manufactured successfully by using existing paper machine infrastructure. 

New Product Development – Two Natural shade product (CNS) for publishing and thermal coating (CRN) 

R & D has developed two new products namely Ace marvel natural shade (CRN) and Creamwove Eco maplitho natural shade (CNS) which are in the state of validation for the market sector like thermal coating and publishing respectively. These new products have quickly attracted the market as the new products contain no coloring dye and optical whitening agents (OBA). Due to the non-addition of coloring dye, OBA and reduced Pollution load, these products are considered to be environment-friendly products.

 Radiant Print Natural shade 

R & D has developed another new product, which is in pipeline to target the image transfer printing, a booming sector in the textile and printing segment. The requirement of this product in market is good. Hence TNPL's R&D is matching the required quality of the product with the imported players such as China and Indonesia.

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