Who is not interested to read when it comes to knowing the ways of saving money?
Are you in the position where you are concerned with the expenses and the bills of your paper mills?
Read this blog to find the secret 7 ways that can save money on paper making. These are the simple ways that you can implement in your mill to reduce the expenses in certain terms.
1. Regenerate pulp with the same wood stock
In the primary step of the pulping process, the wood logs and other raw materials are cut down into smaller pieces called chips using the chopper.
These chips are sorted and the desirable chips are sent ahead to the digester to make pulp.
The leftover particles are disregarded because they are either too big, or too small, or lack certain qualities that are necessary to form the pulp. This material is generally thrown away.
To avoid this loss, you can resend the disregarded particles to the chopper.
Let the wood logs and other raw material undergo the same process until they become able to be transformed into the pulp.
This will not let any of your raw material go unused. This is called as regeneration of pulp with the same wood stock.
2. Reuse water in papermaking
The paper industry is one of the most freshwater users in the manufacturing sector. Water is an important ingredient in the papermaking process. Water can be said as the lifeline of paper manufacturing.
You use water in various stages of pulp making.
The motive of Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle is not only limited to materials.
It is also applied in the usage of water. You can implement a water reuse system in your mill to save water wherever you can. This means, try to reuse the water in different processes wherever possible.
This will reduce the demand for freshwater and thus prove a money saver in your paper manufacturing.
3. Use machines that intake less power consumption
Have you ever wondered whether your machines are giving you enough results?
It may happen that you are investing a lot into the machines, however, they are not giving you back with the expected results.
Selecting proper machines plays an important role in many ways.
Certain machines perform less work and intake more time and energy. Whereas, some machines are more efficient in performing a greater amount of work within less time and energy.
Selecting the proper machine will save you an ample amount of cost that is required on electricity, maintenance, servicing, etc. More output in less input should be our goal of production.
4. Cut your raw material costs – Create your plantation hub
Have you considered having your own plantation of trees for producing the raw material that is required for paper production?
Many paper mills have started to grow their independent trees and bushes so that they can cut them and use them for paper making.
This will definitely save you the cost that you pay for raw materials.
Plus, this will also help in saving the cutting down of forests that are responsible for maintaining the environmental balance.
If you have an area where you can cultivate this, maybe you should think about it.
5. Automate your process – Work smarter
If you are still practicing the traditional methodologies of papermaking, then this is the most important factor you need to consider.
Automate your process of papermaking. Automation is the process where you let your machines work more than your workers.
The technology has become very advanced.
Many processes that were done by humans are now replaced with the machines. The development of the machines has put an end on manual working.
This has not only saved human efforts but also have saved us a lot of time. Automation has increased the efficiency of work on a large scale. Work smarter, not harder.
6. Negotiate with your suppliers
Negotiation may sound a low-key term but a small negotiation also helps a lot in manufacturing industries.
You see, when we manufacture, we are manufacturing in great quantities. So even if you negotiate a little bit, it is going to have a large impact.
What can you negotiate with your suppliers?
You can negotiate on the cost, the time of delivery, payment terms, maintenance services, and other possible terms. Don't be the only one that is compromised. Always remember that every business is a two-way deal.
7. Reduce Waste
Reducing waste is directly proportional to the reusing of materials. Paper recycling is the business where you can use the raw material up to a great extent.
The items that can be recycled are more than the non-recyclable items.
As mentioned in the first point, if you treat the raw material again and make it usable, the material that is going to be the waste is automatically reduced.
Basically, think of reusing every material that goes to waste. Practice a waste-free production mechanism.
So these were the 7 ways to save money on paper making. If you have any ideas, please write down in the comment section below. Share this blog with your friends and colleagues who work in the paper industry.
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