TARA Mini Paper Plant

— Recycling Waste into Wealth

T.N. Anuradha

Recycling 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.

 

 

 

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. q

 

The Mini Paper Plant at work in
Bal Bharati School, New Delhi

 
 
 
 

TARA Mini Paper Plants

Prices: Rs. 70,000 to Rs. 2,80,000

   

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