IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PULP AND PAPER RESEARCH

Objective

This concerted action relates primarily to :

- Non-food combined processing which includes the control and increased efficiency of paper manufacturing and

- Non-food End Use properties which includes defining functional and market requirements for cellulose products and establishing prenormative community or international standards.

The action is intended to promote a faster spread of state of the art high-technology Image Analysis (IA) equipment and methods into the European paper industry for efficient quality control and thereby support competitiveness. IA is by its visual nature well suited for assessing quality appearance factors like print and paper colour, gloss and uniformity. It can be applied in a multitude of ways and it is therefore important to promote discussions on suitable community quality standards before too many local standards emerge.

Environmental statement: image analysis has in itself no environmental effects but as a tool for production and quality control it can be helpful for environmentally friendly production. One example is how IA can be used for control of removal of ink in the processing of recycled waste paper.

The main topics are :

- the assessment of recycled pulp quality

- the assessment of printability

- the assessment of formation of papers

The coordinated laboratories in this action are prepared to share their knowledge to the European pulp and paper industry as a whole which makes the community support very meaningful.

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › materials engineering › colors

Programme(s)

• FP3-AIR - Specific research and technological development and demonstration programme (EEC) in the field of agriculture and agro-industry, including fisheries, 1990-1994

Topic(s)

• 423 - Prenormative research

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CON - Coordination of research actions

Coordinator

PAPIERTECHNISCHE STIFTUNG

Address

Hess Strasse 134
80797 München
Germany

Participants (6)

Centre Technique de l'Industrie des Papiers, Cartons et Celluloses

France

Address

Domaine Universitaire
38020 Grenoble

Institut für Papierfabrikation

Germany

Address

Alexanderstraße 8
64283 Darmstadt

PFI - NORWEGIAN PULP AND PAPER

Norway

Address

Box 24 Blindern
0313 Oslo

PIRA International

United Kingdom

Address

Randalls Road
KT22 7RU Leatherhead

Links

STFI

Sweden

Address

Drottning Kristinasvag 61
11486 Stockholm

TPO - TNO

Netherlands

Address

P.o.box 155
2600 AD Delft