A process for manufacturing a web material is disclosed. The process generally provides the steps of: a. providing a pulp material comprising fibers and vessels; b. separating said vessels from said fibers in said pulp material to form a slurry having at least about 7 percent less vessels per meter than said pulp material; and c. processing said slurry to form said web material.

A process for improving high aspect ratio cellulose filament blends comprising the steps of: a) providing a blend of cellulose nano-filaments or blend of cellulose micro-filaments; b) diluting the blend of cellulose nano-filaments or the blend of cellulose micro-filaments to a target consistency; c) fractionating the diluted blend of cellulose nano-filaments or the diluted blend of cellulose micro-filaments from the step c); and, d) collecting the fraction of the diluted blend of cellulose nano-filaments or the diluted blend of cellulose micro-filaments from the step c) having an average length of greater than at least about 25 ?m.

The present invention refers to the separation of cellulose pulp into distinct fractions with different draining and morphological characteristics, as well as the use of part of these fractions for the production of nanocellulose. The process in reference combines the unitary operations of fiber separation, thickening to a certain consistency, draining and drying of the cellulosic pulp with the high drainage ability and production of nanocellulose from high primary fines content pulp. The process may consider any cellulosic pulp fiber derived from short or long fiber woods such as Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Birch, Aspen, Pinus, recycled fibers, etc., their residues such as bark, sawdust, etc.

A process for manufacturing a web material is disclosed. The process generally provides the steps of: a. providing a pulp material comprising fibers and vessels; b. separating said vessels from said fibers in said pulp material to form a slurry having at least about 7 percent less vessels per meter than said pulp material; and c. processing said slurry to form said web material.

A process for manufacturing a web material is disclosed. The process generally provides the steps of: a. providing a pulp material comprising fibers and vessels; b. separating said vessels from said fibers in said pulp material to form a slurry having at least about 7 percent less vessels per meter than said pulp material; and c. processing said slurry to form said web material.

A cellulose nanofibrils production method comprising the steps of: identifying a desired level of cellulose nanofibrils pulp purity, partially refining pulp to produce a cellulose nanofibrils pulp purity between 5% and 15% less than the desired desired purity, and then separating out the cellulose nanofibrils from the longer fibers to produce the desired level of cellulose nanofibrils pulp purity.

A cellulose nanofibrils production method comprising the steps of: identifying a desired level of cellulose nanofibrils pulp purity, partially refining pulp to produce a cellulose nanofibrils pulp purity between 5% and 15% less than the desired desired purity, and then separating out the cellulose nanofibrils from the longer fibers to produce the desired level of cellulose nanofibrils pulp purity.

A method for controlling a fiber fractionation system for fractionating an input material into a long fraction (LF) stream comprising LF fibers and a short fraction (SF) stream comprising SF fibers includes measuring an average LF fiber length at one or more locations post-fractionation, and maintaining the average LF fiber length within a target variability range by automatically altering a rotational speed of a rotor of the fiber fractionation system.

The invention relates to a method for reducing starch content of an aqueous phase, which is removed from a fibre stock preparation in a manufacturing process of paper, board, tissue or the like. The fibre stock preparation comprises a thickening step, where a fibre stock comprising cellulosic fibres originating from recycled fibre material and/or broke as well as starch dispersed in an aqueous phase is thickened from a first concentration to a second concentration by removing a part of the aqueous phase from the fibre stock. A cationic polymer obtained by copolymerisation of (meth)acrylamide and at least 25 mol-% of solely cationic monomer(s), having a standard viscosity SV of at least 1.7 mPas, is added to the fibre stock at the latest at the thickening step in order to associate the starch with the cellulosic fibres of the fibre stock.

The invention relates to a method for reducing starch content of an aqueous phase, which is removed from a fibre stock preparation in a manufacturing process of paper, board, tissue or the like. The fibre stock preparation comprises a thickening step, where a fibre stock comprising cellulosic fibres originating from recycled fibre material and/or broke as well as starch dispersed in an aqueous phase is thickened from a first concentration to a second concentration by removing a part of the aqueous phase from the fibre stock. A cationic polymer obtained by copolymerisation of (meth)acrylamide and at least 25 mol-% of solely cationic monomer(s), having a standard viscosity SV of at least 1.7 mPas, is added to the fibre stock at the latest at the thickening step in order to associate the starch with the cellulosic fibres of the fibre stock.