STICKIES CONTROL / BIOCIDES

When the paper gets contaminated, that is classified as stickies. The main reason for stickies is recycled paper waxes, and soft adhesives which can cause many issues in the machine like runnability, and quality problems. Stickies are a mixture of organic compounds which inculcate due to printing ink coating binders, wet strength resins, and innumerable others.

Application Areas

A comprehensive stickies control program can make use of stock treatment, wire passivation, felt conditioning, dryer passivation and/or dryer fabric cleaning. These types of control program used depends on the mill’s stock prep system and on-machine cleaning, as well as the type of furnish used and the grade of paper produced.