A transfer device includes a wet blank transfer mold internally provided with an airtight air chamber, a front face with a recessed matching cavity configured to be sheathed on the outside of a pulp wet blank container and is recessed towards the airtight air chamber. The recessed matching cavity includes several small communicating holes provided respectively in an inner wall of each recessed matching cavity and at the bottom of the recessed matching cavity for communication between the recessed matching cavity and the airtight air chamber. A moving frame parallel to the wet blank transfer mold with evenly spaced vacuum cups, is connected to a back face of the wet blank transfer mold via a guiding mechanism. A driver connected between the back face of the wet blank transfer mold and the moving frame to drive the moving frame to move relative to the wet blank transfer mold.

A 3D shaped packaging product (20) for cushioning and/or thermal insulation of packaged goods is formed by hot pressing at an average pressure equal to or below 200 kPa of an air-laid blank (10) comprising natural fibers at a concentration of at least 70% by weight of the air-laid blank (10) and a thermoplastic polymer binder at a concentration selected within an interval of from 4 up to 30% by weight of the air-laid blank (10). The 3D shaped packaging product (20) has a density that is less than four times a density of the air-laid blank (10) and the density of the 3D shaped packaging product (20) is selected within an interval of from 15 to 240 kg/m.sup.3. The 3D shaped packaging product (20) maintains at least a significant portion of the porosity of the air-laid blank (10) even after hot pressing and therefore provides excellent shock absorbing and damping properties and thermal insulation.

A 3D shaped packaging product (20) for cushioning and/or thermal insulation of packaged goods is formed by hot pressing at an average pressure equal to or below 200 kPa of an air-laid blank (10) comprising natural fibers at a concentration of at least 70% by weight of the air-laid blank (10) and a thermoplastic polymer binder at a concentration selected within an interval of from 4 up to 30% by weight of the air-laid blank (10). The 3D shaped packaging product (20) has a density that is less than four times a density of the air-laid blank (10) and the density of the 3D shaped packaging product (20) is selected within an interval of from 15 to 240 kg/m.sup.3. The 3D shaped packaging product (20) maintains at least a significant portion of the porosity of the air-laid blank (10) even after hot pressing and therefore provides excellent shock absorbing and damping properties and thermal insulation.

A food-safe composition and resulting article with grease and water resistance properties comprised of a petroleum wax based aqueous emulsion, a food-safe coating formulation, and an alkyl ketene dimer (AKD), wherein the composition exhibits grease and water resistant properties without a fluorinated compound present in the composition. A method of making the composition and a method of using the composition to form pulp molded articles such as food-safe containers and other pulp-based food packaging and utensils are provided.

A food-safe composition and resulting article with grease and water resistance properties comprised of a petroleum wax based aqueous emulsion, a food-safe coating formulation, and an alkyl ketene dimer (AKD), wherein the composition exhibits grease and water resistant properties without a fluorinated compound present in the composition. A method of making the composition and a method of using the composition to form pulp molded articles such as food-safe containers and other pulp-based food packaging and utensils are provided.

The present disclosure relates to a molding station (20) for molding (210), a preforming station (30) for preforming (220), a hot-pressing station (40) for final shaping (230) a formed part (10) made of environmentally-friendly-degradable fiber material (11) in a fiber-forming process in a fiber-forming system (100). The fiber-forming system (100) produces the formed part (10) having the above components (20, 30, 40) by means of the method (200) performed in the fiber-forming system (100) as a fiber-forming process.

According to examples, a non-transitory computer-readable medium may have stored thereon instructions that may cause a processor to obtain a digital model of a transfer screen to be 3D fabricated. The processor may also determine placements of pores in the digital model, in which the transfer screen is to be mounted on a transfer mold via an attachment mechanism and to engage a surface of a wet part formed on a corresponding forming screen. The forming screen may have a first shape and the transfer screen may have a second shape that is complementary to the first shape, and the locations of the pores may be determined to allow liquid to be suctioned from the wet part when a vacuum pressure is applied to the transfer mold. The processor may further modify the digital model of the transfer screen to include the pores at the determined placements.

According to examples, a non-transitory computer-readable medium may have stored thereon instructions that may cause a processor to obtain a digital model of a transfer screen to be 3D fabricated. The processor may also determine placements of pores in the digital model, in which the transfer screen is to be mounted on a transfer mold via an attachment mechanism and to engage a surface of a wet part formed on a corresponding forming screen. The forming screen may have a first shape and the transfer screen may have a second shape that is complementary to the first shape, and the locations of the pores may be determined to allow liquid to be suctioned from the wet part when a vacuum pressure is applied to the transfer mold. The processor may further modify the digital model of the transfer screen to include the pores at the determined placements.

A three dimensional molded object comprising a mixture of cellulose fibers and microfibrillated cellulose, and optionally one or more inorganic particulate material, wherein the microfibrillated cellulose is present in an amount of about 0.5 wt. % to about 50 wt. % on a dry weight basis of the total dry mass of the mixture of cellulose fibres and microfibrillated cellulose, and optionally one or more inorganic particulate material; wherein the coarsely microfibrillated cellulose comprises less than about 90 wt. % fines and/or less than 75% fines A, and a length-weighted median length Lc(w) of greater than 0.3 mm, as measured by fibre image analyzer, and wherein the microfibrillated cellulose optionally has a fibre steepness of about 20 to about 50, as measured by Malvern Mastersizer.

A pulp molding production line includes a forming machine, a pulp molding manipulator and a press. The pulp molding manipulator having a mounted transfer device which includes a wet blank transfer mold having an interior airtight air chamber. A front face of the wet blank transfer mold is provided with at least one recessed matching cavity that can be sleeved on an outside of a wet pulp blank product that is recessed toward the airtight air chamber, and the recessed matching cavity matches the product. An inner wall and a bottom of the recessed matching cavity are respectively provided with a plurality of small communicating holes. A back face of the wet blank transfer mold is connected to a moving frame through a guide mechanism. A driver connects between the back of the wet blank transfer mold and a moving frame which is provided with uniformly spaced vacuum cups.