Press section rebuild and energy saving press roll

Recently, the attempt to avoid global warming and a sudden rise of the crude oil price push the paper industry to have the ecological effort, such as energy saving, resource saving and high efficiency. Thinking about such a background, MHI has developed compact type of shoe press Mini shoe press, of which shoe length is 3040% of STD shoe press and also has developed energy saving press roll, which reduce stirring energy of internal oil. This paper presents the feature of Mini shoe press and performance of the first installation in Japan. And also, it presents about the concept and effect of the energy saving press roll.