OBJECTIVES:¤ Render technical services to paper mills,
paper converters, printing & publication houses, chemical & machinery suppliers
in quality assessment and development of paper testing instruments.
¤ Assistance to
various government agencies in quality assessment of paper.
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Conduct energy & process audits in industries.
¤ Provide training to mill
personnel at all levels, demonstration of technology, organizing workshop, seminar &
interaction meets to disseminate information.
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Assist other agencies like CII, MNES, Ministry of Power, Paper Mill Associations etc.,
for preparation of pre-feasibility reports, technological evaluation etc.
Quintox Flue Gas Analyser
Simultaneous Thermal Analyser
Automatic Bomb Calorimeter
Portable Load Manager
Pilot Ultra Filtration Unit |
SERVICES OFFERED:¤ Evaluation
of Papers Board & Newsprint.
¤ Coating trials.
¤ Printing characteristics assessment.
¤ Comparative calibration service.
¤ Assistance to various government agencies in the matter
related to pulp & paper.
¤ Energy & process audit in pulp &
paper mills.
¤ Energy efficiency analysis of paper mills processes and pre feasibility studies.
FACILITIES AVAILABLE :
» Paper Testing
¤ Tensile stiffness orientation (TSO)
¤ Sheet formation
assessment
¤ Fracture toughness tester
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Instruments to evaluate tensile, TEA, tensile stiffness
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Elemendorf tear tester
¤ Linting tendency of Paper tester
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IGT printability tester
¤ Paper Hygro instability tester
capable of measuring CD and MD direction simultaneously
¤ Paper
surface Topography
¤ Optical properties including gloss
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Surface smoothness tester – Bendtsen, Parker print surf
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Paper stiffness – Resonance, Taber and bending stiffness
¤ Pilot
coater
¤ Laboratory hard and soft nip calendar
¤ Laboratory
surface sizing instruments
¤ Measuring Air content in stock
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‘Xeno test’ for ageing of Paper
» Energy Management
¤ Energy load manager.
¤ Quintox Flue gas analyser.
¤ Motor top.
¤ Ultrasonic thickness gauge.
¤ Tachometer.
¤ Light probe meter.
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Hydra SX30 DFD flow meter.
¤ Portaflow meter.
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Non contact thermometer.
¤ Micro Manometer.
ACHEIVEMENTS:
¤ Comparative calibration services started for the first time in India,
which is being utilized by Paper mills and other research institutes.
¤ Providing technical expertise to following–
- Custom & Central Excise Department.
- State controller Printing & Stationery Punjab, Haryana, UP, HP, Uttrakhand, Karnataka, M.P, Chattisgarh
- University – IGNOU, Punjab University, Chowdhry Charan Singh University, MP University.
- Educational boards of state like CBSE, NIOS, Delhi Bureau of Text book, Gujarat, Bihar, Haryana.
- Reserve Bank of India.
- Banks – SBI, HDFC, PNB.
- Electricity Board – Punjab, Bihar. - Vigilance department.
- Bureau of Indian Standards
- State Health Department-UP, Punjab.
- Newspaper Houses-Malyalam Manorama, TheTribune, Employment Newspaper, Sandesh, Amar Ujala.
- Postal department
¤ For the first time in India application of Thermal Pinch Technology was undertaken by CPPRI.
¤ Successfully developed a Thermal Pinch Analysis software in collaboration with IIT, Bombay.
Research
& Development
