At the Kimberly-Clark Northfleet Mill, ACI’s JETBLACK
Personnel Cleaning Stations are used in removing tissue debris
from personnel clothing and operatives throughout the mill.
Facilities Manager, Bob Ramsey explains: ‘Here at Northfleet,
the production of toilet tissue is conducted in a moist &
dusty operation where the humidity is very high and minute
paper/tissue particles can settle on the person. Removal of
such production debris is necessary before entering the Crew
Rooms, where lunch etc is taken, and other 'clean rooms' within
the facility and over the years a variety of methods, some
basic, some unpopular, have been used. A standard 'popular'
practice was long-overdue and we recently took it on ourselves
to find the solution.’
‘On purchasing one, we trialed it in the worst area
- the paper mill. The JETBLACK system has now been widely
accepted by all employees and we have installed three systems
with a further two on order’ added Mill Safety Manager,
Brian Glover.
The advantage of using the high volume, low pressure air,
JETBLACK system is that it also conserves energy compared
to expensive generator produced compressed air. This also
meets our goal to reduce energy use to best practice levels.
We now have a vision that every Crew Room will be fitted with
a fixed JETBLACK Blow Gun at the point of entry, and in strategic
process areas where for example compressed air would be used
to blow something into place or cool it down.'
