Paper Chemicals Capabilities.
Pilot Coater Tops the List.
Customers benefit from RohmNova’s network of highly collaborative research, development, trialing and optimization resources of the joint venture companies. A key capability is the new product development support we can provide through a state-of-the-art, high-speed pilot coater located at the OMNOVA Solutions Technology Center in Akron, Ohio.
We can create a new product for you in our lab, scale it up in our plant and then run trials on our pilot coater. You can achieve established quality standards with your base sheet, reduce grade development time, and explore new applications and technologies – all without tying up your valuable in-house resources.
The pilot coater accommodates wide-width paper rolls and operates at up to 6,000 feet per minute. Coating options include rigid and bent blade, conventional and metered size press, airknife and rod. A variety of drying and finishing processes are also offered. Online analysis
can help you measure performance against your critical requirements, to quickly evaluate gloss, coat weight and moisture, for example.
Technology Leadership
The success of RohmNova in the marketplace is due in large part to the broad research and development capabilities of partners OMNOVA and Rohm and Haas, carried out at R&D centers in Akron, Ohio, and Spring House, Pennsylvania. Our technical teams include renowned paper industry scientists and applications experts.
In addition, we are able to leverage global resources for coating studies and paper/paperboard testing at technical labs in Akron, Ohio, Charlotte, North Carolina, Valbonne, France and Shanghai, China.
Customer Focus Mentality
We have enthusiastically embraced a LEAN SixSigma operating approach to focus our efforts on projects that are of value to you, the customer. “LEAN” thinking enables the elimination of waste (defined as actions that are not valued by the customer), and SixSigma statistical tools help dramatically reduce process variation (typically the source of most quality problems).