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Board and Packaging

Nalco Water is a global comprehensive provider of process and water treatment programs for paper and packaging producers. We provide safe and reliable solutions that improve papermill unit operation efficiency, helping to deliver business and sustainability goals in today’s challenging environment. Our innovative production aides and functional programs – METRIX™ strength technologies, NALSIZE™ sizing technologies, PARETO™ injection technology, Retention & Drainage programs, 3DTRASAR™ and more – help our customers enhance board strength, improve machine performance and shrink environmental footprint.

Nalco Water understands the complex challenges of incorporating functional programs that are synergistic with other additives and provide for improved machine performance and paperboard quality. Our solutions allow you to minimize or eliminate the need to over-engineer the finished sheet – using mechanical, chemical and operations solutions that help optimize the whole operation.

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NALSIZE Tiger ASA Technology

Improved Sizing Efficiency in Paper and Paperboard

NALSIZE™ Tiger High Performance ASA technology delivers stable, controllable, on-machine sizing. This sizing efficiency reduces chemical requirements and energy use.

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Nalco Water - Passion for Packaging

Nalco Water – Passion for Packaging

Our productions aids for packaging allow you to minimize or eliminate the need to over-engineer the finished sheet – using tools that help us understand and optimize the mechanical, operational and chemical variables in the manufacturing process.
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Minimize air in board packaging.

Nalco Water 4D Air™ Program

Nalco Water’s 4D Air Program uses chemicals for paper and packaging to reduce the effects of entrained air and surface foam in the carton and container board market.

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Delivering Innovation and Expertise to the Board & Packaging Industry

Our approach sets us apart. With an unparalleled commitment to personally delivered service and a suite of innovative technologies and science-based solutions, we drive positive economic and sustainable impacts through our customers operations, and the communities in which they operate.

Customer Success Stories

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Stacked board packaging.

High Performance Linerboard Mill Implements METRIX™ Technology

Learn how Nalco Water’s METRIX Technology helped a mill obtain environmentally sustainable results of reduced basis weight and increased production.

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Increase Production and Improved Wet- End Stability

Read how High-Performance Linerboard & Medium Mill Incorporates Core Shell™ 61067 Technology and POSITEK™ 4G 9000 Technology Through PARETO™.

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Gypsum liner mill.

New HYBRID™ technology saves more than $700,000 annually at Gypsum Liner Mill

Learn more about how today’s gypsum liner paper machines are solving their challenges with Nalco Water production aids for packaging.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Maximize Machine Performance with Navigator™ and Yankee Operation Intelligence

Learn how Nalco Water’s Navigator™ Technology and Yankee Operation Intelligence helps a tissue...

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Paper Mill's Power Plant Turns the Page on a Persistent Problem

Nalco Water’s team of experts identified the source of the magnetite loss in the Paper Mill Power...

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Wrapping Up Savings in Papermaking

Read how a pulp and paper company implemented PARETO Mixing Technology to save $95,000 per year.

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JULY 11, 2020

This partnership is the whole package

Nalco Water implemented 3D TRASAR™ Water Management Technology to help the turbine condenser...

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Board & Packaging Solutions

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Pulp Mill Cleaning

We use safe acids in our pulp mill cleaning solutions to treat mill and liquor processing deposits.

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Pulp Dryer Drainage Aid

Nalco Water technology increases pulp dryer production in both free drainage and press dewatering.

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Paper Machine Defoamer and De-Aeration

Our foam control chemicals effectively control foam and entrained air in all paper and board.

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General Cleaning

Nalco Water cleaning programs keep paper machine surfaces free from slime, scale and stock.

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