Provided are a papermaking device having an excellent strength in which the unevenness in strength between its parts is suppressed, and a method for producing the papermaking device.

Also provided is a papermaking device for use in papermaking machine, the papermaking device comprising at least one resin layer comprising a polyurethane resin, wherein the polyurethane resin comprises as a component a polyether polycarbonate diol comprising one or more unit(s) A expressed by the following formula (1).

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Provided are a papermaking device having an excellent strength in which the unevenness in strength between its parts is suppressed, and a method for producing the papermaking device.

Also provided is a papermaking device for use in papermaking machine comprising at least one resin layer comprising polyurethane resin, wherein the polyurethane resin is obtainable by reacting a urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group with a curing agent having an active hydrogen group, wherein the urethane prepolymer is obtainable by reacting a polyisocyanate compound comprising 2,4-tolylene-diisocyanate and/or 2,6-tolylene-diisocyanate with a polyol compound comprising one or more polyether polycarbonate diol(s).

A press cover is formed with at least one polymer layer. The at least one polymer layer includes or is formed of at least one thermoplastic elastomer in the form of a copolymer. There is also disclosed the use of a press cover of this type in a shoe press, a shoe press of this type, and a press roll, in each case having a press cover of this type. Finally, there is also disclosed the use of a thermoplastic elastomer in the form of a copolymer, for at least one polymer layer of a press cover for a shoe press for the treatment of a fibrous web.

A process produces a body of a belt (10) for a paper, board, pulp or tissue machine, the body having an inner surface and an outer surface. The process includes producing a modified polyurethane by adding a polydialkylsiloxane having at least one functional group to a manufacturing process of a polyurethane in order to obtain the modified polyurethane, which modified polyurethane is a polyurethane matrix having a covalent bond with the polydialkylsiloxane, and forming the body of the belt, wherein the body is the modified polyurethane. The belt (10) is for a paper, board, pulp, or tissue machine, or for a shoe press and a sleeve roll.

A shoe press has a shoe on which a radial inner surface of a press jacket slides. In a method of operating the shoe press, lubricating fluid is introduced between the shoe and the press jacket for lubricating purposes. The press jacket has at least one polymer layer into which a reinforcing structure is integrated, the reinforcing structure including at least one reinforcing thread. The lubricating fluid, the at least one polymer layer, and/or the at least one reinforcing thread is/are designed such that the lubricating fluid reaches the at least one reinforcing thread of the reinforcing structure and produces a color change in same in the event the polymer layer breaks. There is also described a shoe press, the inclusion of a press jacket in such a shoe press, and a machine with such a shoe press.

A shoe press belt for use in a papermaking machine including at least one resin layer, where the resin layer contains a polyurethane resin formed by curing an urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group with a curing agent having an active hydrogen group, where the urethane prepolymer is obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate compound containing 4,4′-methylene bis(phenylisocyanate) with a polyol compound containing polytetramethylene ether glycol, and the curing agent contains polycarbonate diol(s).

The object of the invention is to provide a shoe press belt which has an excellent strength while the variation in strength among its parts being suppressed, and to provide a method for producing such a shoe press belt. Provided is a shoe press belt for use in a papermaking machine comprising at least one resin layer comprising polyurethane resin, wherein the polyurethane resin comprises as a component a polycarbonate diol comprising one or more unit(s) A expressed by the following formula (1) (wherein R.sup.1 is a branched alkylene group having 3 or more and 20 or less of carbon atoms): ##STR00001##

The present invention relates to a method for producing a film comprising nanocellulose, which method comprises: providing a suspension comprising 50-100 weight-% of nanocellulose based on total dry weight; forming a fibrous web of said suspension on a non-porous support; providing a press fabric comprising a web-side first surface and an opposite second surface, wherein said press fabric comprises a woven first fabric layer arranged in the press fabric as a layer providing said web-side first surface such that said press fabric has a woven surface structure at said web-side first surface; applying said web-side surface of said press fabric into direct contact with said web; wet-pressing said web by conducting said web, arranged between said press fabric and said non-porous support, through a pressing equipment, and drying the dewatered web so as to form said film. The invention further relates to a film produced from said method.

A sleeve roll belt (10) has an inner surface (11) and an outer surface (12). The belt has a body (15) and a reinforcing structure (30). The reinforcing structure (30) has first yarns (31) arranged to a first direction (D1) of the belt, and second yarns (32) arranged to a second direction (D2) of the belt. The reinforcing structure (30) also has auxiliary yarns (31b, 31c) arranged parallel or substantially parallel to the first direction (D1) of the belt, wherein the auxiliary yarns are arranged to a depth of greater than a depth of the first yarns, measured from the outer surface (12) of the body (15) to an outer surface (31-o, 31b-o) of each yarn (31, 31b, 31c) in the depth direction of the belt, and a diameter of the auxiliary yarns is at least 20% smaller than a diameter of the first yarns.

A shoe press belt with excellent mechanical properties, in particular a shoe press belt with excellent crack resistance and excellent resistance to land edge deficiency. The shoe press belt includes a felt-side resin layer containing a resin formed by curing a prepolymer having a terminal isocyanate group (—NCO) with a curing agent, wherein the prepolymer contains, in reacted form, a compound comprising 1,4-bis(isocyanate methyl) cyclohexane and a polycarbonate diol, and wherein the felt-side resin layer has grooves that are configured to receive water squeezed from a felt.