Guaranteed air purity with UD+ filter

Filters UD+ Pulp and paper

Reliable compressed air purity is crucial in advanced tissue paper manufacturing processes today. In Olayan Kimberly-Clark, they use air in tissue mill, and choose high purity compressed air which guarantees of quality and productivity.

Established in 1994, Olayan Kimberly-Clark Bahrain is an industry leader with largest tissue paper production for Kleenex, Huggies, Scott, Andrex and Kotex in Bahrain. The company historical journey started from 1880 and is transformed in around 175 countries to support simple human dignity.

Olayan Kimberly-Clark has 2 units of Atlas Copco GA 110 air compressors, 2 units of FD 450 air dryers with 2 DD & PD 520 line filters in Bahrain factory. These machines have been running continuously 24 hours every day producing filtered air purity of 0.01 mg/m3 with 525 mbar pressure drop. Decades of partnering with the world's leading tissue manufacturers has given Atlas Copco a keen sense of what is exactly required in the tissue industry. Highest quality of air purity protects the users' equipment from damage, avoids oil and dust contaminating the tissue. At las Copco line filters offer the manufacturer pure, clean air that complies with ISO 8573-2:2007 certification. Backed by many years experience and extensive in-house testing, Atlas Copco engineers gained completely new insights into oil coalescing filtration. The result is our nautilus filter technology based on unique and low-density filter media with the ingenuity and look of a nautilus shell. The first filters to make use of this innovative technology are Atlas Copco UD+ filters. These filters combine two filtration steps in one, hereby meeting the high-quality requirements of diverse application and leading to a 40% pressure drop reduction.

Olayan Kimberly-Clark being the first customer in Bahrain to convert the old DD & PD 520 to UD 550+ in July 2016 for both Atlas Copco air dryers which guarantees high filtration capacities and air purity of 0.0009 mg/m3 with 245 mbar pressure drop at same low energy cost.

Mr. Saeed Khurram Chishti, Asset & Reliability Leader at Olayan Kimberly-Clark always emphasizes that the highest machine reliability, lesser maintenance cost and uninterrupted production quality is at top priority for him. Conversion of DD & PD line filter to UD+ has given him following advantages:

Decreased pressure drop by 40%

25% lesser cost compared to DD & PD line filters

Reduced inventory, only 1 line filter to keep in stock instead of 2 filters

Maintenance time is reduced, no need to replace a few parts like gauges, EWD drain kits, and automatic drains

As a world leader in compressed air technology, over the past years Atlas Copco has pioneered the development of air technology, resulting in a range of air compressors, air dryers and line filters that provide high purity, clean air required for tissue mills all over the world and stressed the fact that Atlas Copco products are best in class in the industry.

Anant Tulaskar , Product Manager at Gulf Equipment & Technology (Atlas Copco Authorized Distributor in Bahrain)

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