Even the best felts can underperform without proper monitoring. The Feltest SpeedController gives you crystal-clear insight into felt performance by combining AirSpeed and TrueSpeed Sensor data. Spot issues early, reduce downtime, and optimize your trials, all from one smart instrument.

Here's your step-by-step guide to getting started with the SpeedController.

As a papermaker, the relationship with your machine clothing supplier is critical to the performance of your mill. Yet many mills still rely on a single supplier, leaving themselves exposed to potential issues.

Here are 5 characteristics to look for when selecting a new or additional paper machine clothing supplier: 

If you’ve read our previous blogs, this statement will come as no surprise: there isn’t a standard, universal metric for ‘correct’ felt permeability. This is because achieving optimal permeability is unique to each machine. And it’s determined by two sets of variables.

So how do you find the optimal felt permeability? Here’s how… 

Paper machine clothing can make or break a papermaker’s future – yet our industry’s attitude toward testing feels stuck in the past. With downtime and poor runnability costing thousands per hour, the stakes are high—and that breeds nervousness. It could lead to production managers over-relying on their supplier to test machine clothing performance.

In one way or another, we are all involved in getting the most out of our paper machines. More output means more profit for the company, more job security for us all and better chances for a promotion.

Where PMC trial theory meets practice… this is a case study about improving felt performance in a 200″ wide machine in a European paper mill.

This article is the follow-up on the previous article about how to maximize pmc value with this innovative mindset.