Paper Mills

Paper production has been transformed over hundreds of years into the modern technology used in paper mills of today. Paper production has a huge impact on the environment as the use of wood i.e. trees being felled was once the only way to produce paper. Today, many mills produce paper from re-cycled materials. This helps reduce the impact on the environment and can reduce costs of production. It can bring its own difficulties during production and so a range of stainless steels and its alloys are utilised in paper production.

Paper production involves many processes utilising many types of aggressive media. Materials have to withstand heat, water, highly abrasive processes, corrosive media and more. The list of materials utilised in production processes include Bronze, stainless steel, duplex, super-duplex, 17-4ph, C276, alloy 625. These materials cover a range of properties which are required when encountering any number of damaging processes.