Pilots
Chromatogeny Pilot
A breakthrough technology for hydrophobic papers & boards...
- Develop hydrophobic paper and board that can replace plastics fully recyclable and biodegradable.
- Optimize the base paper and fine-tune the grafting operating conditions in order to develop materials with the required barrier performances.
- Produce grafted reels in industrial conditions.
The MFC wet lamination pilot
Paper and board covered with microfibrillated cellulose for barrier packaging
- Develop paper and board laminated with MFC for the packaging and specialty papers sectors
- Assemble a paper/board with a film of microfibrillated cellulose, without using glue
- Improve the stiffness, surface state and barrier properties of papers and boards while maintaining their recyclability and biodegradability
- Produce reels for making demonstrators
Foam generator
Lignocellulosic foams, deposits in foam
- Generation of foam in situ, within a particle suspension
- Continuous production of foam
- Wide range of variation in gas content of the foam, up to more than 90%
- Commercial system
Pilot of BIVIS extrusion
Fibres, MFC, molecules
From lignocellulosic raw materials:
- To produce fibres or microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) at high consistency
- To elaborate new materials by reactive extrusion
- To extract biosourced molecules of interest
NaMiCell pilot
Production of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC)
- To produce MFC from different qualities of pre-treated lignocellulosic fibres
- To evaluate the interest of new fibres pre-treatments for MFC production
- To adapt the process conditions to the targeted MFC quality for a given application
Bleaching / Fibres Functionalization pilot
Simulate your processes to reduce costs and / or environmental impact
- to simulate in a reproducible and reliable way all the bleaching stages and the functionalization reactions of lignocellulosic fibres
- to validate the laboratory results before considering costly industrial trials
- to produce bleached or functionalized fibres in sufficient quantity to evaluate their uses (batch of 75 to 100 kg)
Pilot gluing bench
Evaluation of paper/board gluing performance
- Characterise paper/board gluability
- Identify and quantify associated bonding defects
- Appraise gluing problems
- Formulate technical recommendations with a view to predicting industrial conditions
High-speed laboratory calender
Cost-effective paper and board calendering in industrial conditions
- Determine the optimum conditions for calendering paper and board
- Evaluate the strength and durability of polymer coverings
- Recommend technological calendering solutions with a view to investing
Coating Pilot
Paper and board coating for graphics, barrier and speciality applications
- Develop coated paper and board for printing and writing, packaging and speciality markets
- Compare the performances of paper and board substrates, coating products or processes
- Produce reels for making demonstrators
Recycled Fibres Pilot
A unique and essential tool for recycling and deinking
- Prepare recycled or deinked pulp at semi-industrial scale
- Test new types of paper to be recycled
- Test new process configurations
- Test new chemicals
3D SPRAY PILOT
Coating/functionalisation of 3D cellulose objects for packaging and speciality applications
- Develop coated 3D cellulose products and objects for packaging and speciality markets
- Compare the performance of coating products or processes applied to 3D cellulose products and objects
- Perform chromatogeny on 3D cellulose products and objects
- Produce series of demonstrators
Refiner mechanical pulps production pilot
RMP, TMP, CTMP, APP
- To simulate the mechanical pulping processes based on disks refiners (in industrial conditions)
- To pulp different lignocellulosic raw materials (wood, annual plants etc.)
- To evaluate the impact of chemical or enzymatic treatments of wood on energy and pulp quality
Molecules extraction and unbleached chemical pulps producing pilot
Multipurpose valorisation of lignocellulosic raw materials
- To extract molecules present in lignocellulosic raw materials
- To simulate reproducibly and reliably all chemical pulping processes under alkaline, acid, organic, enzymatic conditions
- To validate laboratory results before considering industrial trials
- To extract molecules or to produce unbleached fibres in sufficient quantity to evaluate their uses (use of batches of 100 to 150 kg of raw material)
