With the new equipment, the mill will be able to improve its pulp testing capabilities to better meet its customer quality needs. The automatic pulp laboratory will be installed in July 2014. “We were convinced by Metso’s proven technology and ability to support us locally with their North American service teams,” says Scott Spencer, Manager, Strategic Development, Zellstoff Celgar.

Metso will supply a Pulp Expert automatic pulp laboratory with consistency, freeness, tensile, dirt, brightness and High-Definition fiber and shive measurements as well as a proprietary Quality Assurance Tracking program to maximize the use of the measurements.

According to Metso, Pulp Expert is significantly faster and has about ten times more testing capacity than the traditional laboratory.