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R ecycling
cellulosic waste (such as used paper) limits deforestation and
checks pollution. In this jet age of technological explosion,
computers and photocopiers have increased the wastage of paper
manifold. TARA Mini Paper Recycling Plant is an appropriate
system to turn waste paper, cotton rags and other such waste
into paper for all purposes.
The Technology
TARA Mini Paper Plant facilitates
production of half a kilo to 25 kilos of quality paper every
day, depending upon the capacity of the equipment and the nature
of work.
It is quite simple to install, operate and
maintain the machines. It is easily affordable by one and all.
In fact, there is a great demand for such a neat, compact and
portable model in schools, art colleges and other educational
institutions apart from small hobby groups - especially the
ethnic ones. Self help groups can also be gainfully employed in
paper and product manufacture.
The TARA mini
paper recycling plants are specially designed to create
widespread awareness of how individuals and groups can help save
our environment while adding value. It is a complete – yet
simple – technology package with which even a child can turn
waste paper and cotton rags into useful and valuable products.
At the same time, it eliminates pollution. However, newsprint
cannot be recycled.
The process :
Simple, safe but sophisticated
The raw material – that ranges from used
paper to waste cloth – is soaked in water and beaten to pulp in
an electrically powered mini-beater or hydrapulper. After few
hours of beating and further dilution with water, the pulp is
ready for making paper.
The pulp is
transferred to a univat, mixed thoroughly and lifted with a
unique deckle and mould frame system designed to lay it out in
sheets of even thickness.
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The sheets are
"couched" (stacked) on top of each other and separated by thin
cotton felts. After squeezing out
excess water by a screw paper, the sheets of paper are separated
and dried in the sun. The dry paper is polished with a
calendering machine or a hot iron, after which it is ready for
use for product manufacture or printing.
The Equipment : Innovative, low cost and
efficient
Hollander Beater
This is used for making pulp by beating
the cotton or denim waste. It consists of a heavy, U-shaped
trough in which a drum with multiple knives rotates rapidly to
cut and chop the raw material.
Hydrapulper
This
machine makes pulp from recycling of paper preferably de-inked
and soaked in water.
Screw Press
It is an efficient mechanism, manually
operated to create high pressure and to squeeze out excess water
from a stack of newly formed (very wet) sheets of paper.
Univat
A clever device, needing only a little
skill to lift sheets of paper with uniform thickness : a tank
fitted with deckle and mould which transfers the formed sheet
onto cotton felt.
Calendering Machine
 With
two chilled cylinders rotating in opposite directions, this
machine provides a smooth finish to the sheets of paper that
pass through them.
TARA also provides training and
commissioning services with the supply of equipment.
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The Mini Paper Plant at work in
Bal Bharati School, New Delhi |
