Plasma spray technology to produce ceramic blades

In August 2009 Metso acquired Pacific International, a division of the Pacific/Hoe Saw & Knife Company,   pioneer in thermal spray technology for doctor, coating and creping blades, and blade manufacturing. This, combined with Metso’s know-how in the coating process, takes ceramic blade usability to a completely new level. Metso is known as a reliable partner in doctoring with a wide range of high-quality doctor blades from glass fiber to plastics, and from metal to carbon fiber. ValEco, ValPro, ValRX, ValCar, ValGlass, to mention a few, are globally-known doctor blade products. With the Pacific acquisition, the newest members of the doctoring product portfolio are the ValBrite C and ValBronze A ceramic doctor blades. During 2009 Metso has also introduced carbide coated steel doctor blades to ceramic roll applications.

PermaCote coater blades are high-quality ceramic-coated blades. The product family contains all types of ceramic-edged coater blades, including carbide and chrome oxide blades, which are the latest design. Ceramic-edged coater blades provide longer run-times and improved paper quality, resulting in improved operating efficiency and quality, and decreased overall expenses also with printing paper grades.