As a papermaker, you’re coping with tough production, waste and inventory problems every day. Industry estimates say that as much as 5% to 10% of a mill’s production never gets to its originally intended customers. The reasons range from mill quality issues, customer change orders, damaged inventoried rolls, and missed orders to delivery problems and roll stocking programs.

For a paper mill annually producing 300,000 tons of paper it’s a problem that means 15,000 to 30,000 tons of paper must be reworked, dropped into the job lot market or culled. Production that can’t be sold at full market value cuts significantly into mill profitability.

How does a papermaker turn maverick tonnage into good, saleable production that supports a mill’s profitability performance? Until now, costly reworking of that paper, in-house or outside the gate, with slow, conventional paper rewinders was the only option. But now Mapleroc Industries has a better, faster and lower-cost answer for papermakers.

The Alternative

Mapleroc now offers paper mills a real, proven alternative to conventional rewinders – the Roll Converting Center. It delivers finished, press-ready rolls for incremental sales and profitability with far greater production speed, faster throughput and lower cost than rewinders.

Value-added Converting Centers can process up to 4 to 6 rolls an hour. The system processes 300% more paper in a single operating-hour than conventional rewinders. That unprecedented roll-cutting speed enables your mill to process major roll resizing workloads within a few hours. Fast-turnaround, tight-delivery customer orders can be easily and economically handled internally to keep control of production in house.

Important Advantages

Mapleroc’s patented new converting technology enables you to deliver rolls with their original mill wind for optimum runnability and customer satisfaction. You’ll see other immediate benefits from trim efficiencies, improved inventory management, and a major reduction in the number of rolls culled.

With the Roll Center, damaged or off-spec paper can be quickly converted into usable, highly saleable roll sizes at low cost to restore much of the value of the original roll production. Converted paper often can qualify as first line production, and side rolls are not diverted to the job lot market. Roll Centers installed within your mill, give you the flexibility to process rolls for shipment to customers as first-quality market value paper.

Mapleroc Industries’ converting technology provides you with a reliable system that enables greater converting efficiency, eliminates production bottlenecks, delivers important operational savings and lets you derive more revenue and profitability opportunities from your mill’s production.