Challenge:

The challenge is to give better possibilities for products printed on newsprint to meet the market demands regarding cost-efficient print quality in competition with other media. The paper manufacturer can thus modify the newsprint production and optimise the paper for these demands. This will ultimately lead to an efficient and trouble free printing with longer cleaning intervals in the printing plant which will increase the profitability in newspaper production.

Value:

Achieve a more efficient and thus competitive production process by:

• Supplying tools and strategies to handle the mechanisms governing surface strength (to avoid particulate deposits in the printing process), cockling and waviness of the printing paper
• Specification of demands on newsprint raised from modern printing presses and from competition with other media
• Supplying of tools to understand and strategies to improve ink-paper interactions

Target industries:

Newsprint paper makers, suppliers of chemical additives. Manufacturers of printing presses and printing inks.