Case Study
Ponderay Newsprint Solves Fly Ash System Problems with Plattco Double Flap Airlock® Valves
Anyone who’s been responsible for keeping an industrial boiler up and running can appreciate what Jim LeBlanc was going through. For nearly a decade, LeBlanc, a long-time operations process leader at the Resolute Forest Products’ Ponderay Newsprint plant in Usk, WA, struggled to maintain uptime at the plant’s 40,000 pound per hour fluidized bed boiler. One major source of the mill’s problems with the boiler ash system: the use of a