Georgia-Pacific
FlowKraft

FirmSet
FlowKraft For Pasted Valve Converting and High-Speed Filling
Ideal for pasted valve type bags
Decreases strength-related failures
Allows necessary release of air in fill process without sacrificing strength
Increases fill line rate efficiency because of reduction or elimination of perforations
Meets or exceeds Rule 40 strength requirements
Available in natural and bleached in 40-, 50- and 60-lb. basis weights

Kellerman's FlowKraft™ a high-porosity multiwall paper, is Georgia-Pacific’s Krafted Solution for pasted valve converting and high-speed filling performance. The porous structure of the paper plays an important role in the effectiveness of multiwall converting operations, including the ability to protect packaged products and efficient filtering of air through the bag. With consistent air resistance performance of less than 15 seconds per 100cc, FlowKraft allows an enhanced release of air through the bag during the high-speed filling process.

FlowKraft offers an opportunity to reduce or eliminate perforations that slow the tubing process and reduce strength in pasted valve paper plies. Reducing perforations not only increases bag strength but saves set-up time.

During trials with a major bag producer, perforations on the two inner plies of a multiwall application were eliminated completely with FlowKraft substituted for the perforated plies. The common static air test on the new configuration provided the same results as the composite bag with perforated plies. FlowKraft also reduced set-up time. Perforated rolls can require as much as two hours of set-up per roll. In fact, set-up accounts for as much as 90 percent of tuber downtime. In this test, throughput increased by 25 bags per minute in the tubing process, making the added value of FlowKraft clear.