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Tissue paper is a lightweight, light crêped paper
Crêpe paper

Cr?pe paper is tissue paper that?s been coated with sizing and then creped to create gathers....
. Tissue can be made both from virgin and recycled paper pulp.

ue paper is used to make a huge range of products with different properties and quality demands. Key properties are: strength, absorbency, basis weight, thickness (bulk), brightness, stretch, appearance.

ue paper is produced on a paper machine
Fourdrinier machine

The Fourdrinier Machine is the basis for most modern papermaking, and it has been used in some variation since its conception. The Fourdrinier accomplishes all the steps needed to transform a source of wood pulp into a final paper product....
 that have a single large steam heated drying cylinder (yankee dryer
Yankee dryer

A Yankee dryer is a pressure vessel used in the production of tissue paper. On the Yankee dryer, the paper goes from approximately 42-45% dryness to just over 89% dryness....
) fitted with a hot air hood.






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Tissue paper is a lightweight, light crêped paper
Crêpe paper

Cr?pe paper is tissue paper that?s been coated with sizing and then creped to create gathers....
. Tissue can be made both from virgin and recycled paper pulp.

Properties

Tissue paper is used to make a huge range of products with different properties and quality demands. Key properties are: strength, absorbency, basis weight, thickness (bulk), brightness, stretch, appearance.

Production

Tissue paper is produced on a paper machine
Fourdrinier machine

The Fourdrinier Machine is the basis for most modern papermaking, and it has been used in some variation since its conception. The Fourdrinier accomplishes all the steps needed to transform a source of wood pulp into a final paper product....
 that have a single large steam heated drying cylinder (yankee dryer
Yankee dryer

A Yankee dryer is a pressure vessel used in the production of tissue paper. On the Yankee dryer, the paper goes from approximately 42-45% dryness to just over 89% dryness....
) fitted with a hot air hood. The raw material is paper pulp. The yankee cylinder is sprayed with adhesives to make the paper stick. Creping is done by the yankee's doctor blade that is scraping the dry paper of the cylinder surface. The crinkle (crêping) is controlled by the strength of the adhesive, geometry of the doctor blade, speed difference between the yankee and final section of the paper machine and paper pulp characteristics.

The properties are controlled by pulp quality, crêping
Crêpe

A cr?pe is a type of very thin, cooked pancake usually made from wheat flour. The word, like the pancake itself, is of France origin, deriving from the Latin crispa, meaning "curled." While cr?pes originate from Brittany, a region in the northwest of France, their consumption is nowadays widespread in France and it is considered...
 and additives (both in base paper and as coating).

Applications


Hygienic tissue paper

Hygienic tissue paper is commonly used for facial tissue (paper handkerchiefs), napkins, bathroom tissue and household towels. Paper has been used for hygiene purposes for centuries, but tissue papers as we know it today was not produced in USA before the mid-1940s. In Western Europe
Western Europe

Western Europe refers to the countries in the western most half of Europe. This concept has had different meanings, political and cultural as well as geographical issues have influenced the area....
 large scale industrial production started in the beginning of 1960s.

Facial tissue

Facial tissue (paper handkerchiefs) refers to a class of soft, absorbent, disposable paper that is suitable for use on the face. The term is commonly used to refer to the type of facial tissue, usually sold in boxes, that is designed to facilitate the expulsion of nasal mucus from the nose although it may refer to other types of facial tissues including napkins and wipes.

Paper towels

Paper towles are the second largest product of tissue paper for the consumer sector. This type of paper have usually a basis weight of 20 - 24 g/m2. Normally they are two ply. This tissue can be made from 100 % chemical pulp to 100 % recycled fiber including anything in between. Normally some long fiber chemical pulp are included to improve strenght.

Wrapping Tissue

Wrapping tissue is a type of thin, translucent paper
Paper

Paper is thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon or packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
 used for wrapping and cushioning items.

See also

  • Crêpe paper
    Crêpe paper

    Cr?pe paper is tissue paper that?s been coated with sizing and then creped to create gathers....
  • Yankee dryer
    Yankee dryer

    A Yankee dryer is a pressure vessel used in the production of tissue paper. On the Yankee dryer, the paper goes from approximately 42-45% dryness to just over 89% dryness....