The Process Development Center is available for process and product development work. We work with clients on research projects, large or small. Check out the pages below to find out about the services we offer.
New Equipment
The refiner is one of basic machines used in test and research area of pulp and paper industry and other related industries. It turns wood chips into pulp, conditions the pulp, and makes pulp of synthetic fibers, glass fibers and carbon fibers. With this machine, it is easy to perform processing into fiber and fibrillation of various polymers in diverse fields. Its shape is the same as the practical refiner used in the manufacturing plant, producing the same quality of the actual final product.
This lab-scale dry thermoformer is used to press, mold, and crease paperboard into 3D shapes, primarily food packaging. These shapes include paper plates, trays, and bowls. This equipment is an important step in our Sustainable Packaging Initiative.
Designed for R&D, pilot trials, and specialty fiber processing at the bench scale (50L), this medium-consistency refiner handles pulp suspensions up to 6%, ideal for developing nanofibrillated (NFC), microfibrillated (MFC), and conventional pulp products. The PDC currently has three different plate types for this refiner, depending on the application. Currently, staff are conducting a study to compare the performance to our commercial scale double-disk refiners.
