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Process and water treatment chemistry solutions for absorbency aids - Monitoring and Testing
Buckman offers chemicals to tissue makers to improve wicking and therefore absorbency, which is critical for towel grades. Absorbency is a key performance characteristic for toweling grades. The market for toweling products continues to demand increasing wet and dry tensile strength, which often has an inverse relationship with both absorbency rate and capacity. Additionally, the use of recycled fiber sources containing hydrophobic materials (such as sizing components) for the manufacture of toweling grades will impact on absorbency and can lead to absorbency reversion over time (aging).
Through the application of Buckman chemistry in the wet end, absorption capacity (volume of fluid that can be taken up by the sheet) can be significantly improved. Sheet void area is the main driving force here and optimization of the fiber mix, strength development and creping process are integral to developing maximum absorbency. Buckman can help tailor an optimized approach for your tissue machine to generate final sheet structure you need.
