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Doctoring, Cleaning, Filtration
Doctor Blade Holders

Doctor blade holders position the doctor blade firmly against the roll, accommodate roll surface irregularities, compensate for thermal expansion, and facilitate rapid blade changes.

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Doctor Blades

Doctor blades are used to clean rolls and remove stock accumulations, water, pitch, and filler buildup.

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Double Doctoring Systems

A double doctor system provides the extra performance of two independently adjustable doctor blades within one unit.

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Drainage Structures

Kadant provides papermaking tools including forming boards, gravity foils, VID™ Forming Technology, and high vacuum dewatering boxes.

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Inline Pressure Filters

In-line filters can have a single or duplex arrangement. A single in-line filter is used in applications where the flow can be interrupted, or the filter can be bypassed when the filter element is serviced. Duo filters are used when continuous filtration is required.

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M-Clean™ Cleaning Systems

The M-clean cleaning system is a modular cleaning system that uses high-pressure water in combination with an effective evacuation and air knife system to remove contaminants.

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Fluid Handling
Air & Steam Separators

To improve the operating efficiency of pneumatic equipment, Kadant Johnson air separators eliminate 99% of entrained contaminants including moisture, pipe scale, dirt and oil.

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Corrugator Steam Systems

The first priority of a corrugator steam system is to provide maximum temperature at the liner and medium interface for glue bonding. The ThermoMax system provides maximum steam pressure to the corrugator rolls and two preheater rolls that immediately precede them.

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Custom Rotary Unions & Swivel Joints

Kadant Johnson’s product innovation team focuses on making the best solution in the shortest time possible. We provide rapid design and manufacturing services to ensure our new project solutions process for custom rotary unions and swivel joints put our customers at the center of our schedule.

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Desuperheaters

Kadant desuperheaters are designed to reduce the temperature of superheated steam for optimal heat transfer and efficiency.

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Direct Steam Injection Heaters

A direct steam injection heater provides a cost-effective method to heat water and other fluids by injecting steam directly into the fluid. The direct injection heater is designed to handle a wide range of flow rates and deliver hot fluids at precise temperatures.

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Flexible Metal Hose

Kadant Johnson flexible hose has been engineered especially for use as inlet and outlet connections to Kadant Johnson rotary joints. It prevents pipe strains from creating tension or stress on the rotary joint, and does not restrict the joint's built-in flexibility.

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Fiber Processing
Chemical Pulping

Kadant offers a complete line of heat transfer products for the pulp mill through its Goslin product line.

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Clarification/Filtering/Washing

A proper water resource recovery system is used to effectively and efficiently reclaim white water, heat, chemicals, and fiber from a variety of paper and pulp mill applications.

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Cleaning

Kadant’s stock cleaning systems provide high efficiency removal of contaminants in pulp slurries. Cleaning involves converting pressure into high velocity using specially-designed cyclonic separators.

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Deinking

Based on more than three decades of innovation and expertise in advanced flotation technology, the new Kadant MAK-C compact flotation cell offers maximum yield and efficiency.

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Pulping

Kadant’s innovative pulping systems have been installed in a variety of pulping applications including recycled paper, virgin pulp, broke systems, bank notes, and many other applications. We offer complete systems for all pulping applications.

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Screening

Screening is one of the key steps in the stock preparation process to remove contaminants, but also a required action to improve the sheet cleanliness and formation for the approach flow applications.

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Wood Processing
Alignment Conveyor

In addition to improved strand quality, the Kadant Carmanah Alignment Conveyor has been proven to significantly increase fill factor when processing logs in a "shingle-feed" application.

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Chip Screening

Kadant Carmanah has more than 80 years of chip screen application and manufacturing experience. The company’s suspended chip screen design is a result of that experience.

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Chippers - Disc (Wastewood)

Kadant Carmanah produces some of the wood industry's highest quality and robust chippers for waste-wood and whole-log applications.

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Chippers - Disc (Whole Log)

Kadant Carmanah produces some of the wood industry's highest quality and robust chippers for waste-wood and whole-log applications.

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Chippers - Drum

The SKD (Straight Knife Drum) Chipper uses straight-edged knives mounted across the face of a cylindrical drum, fed from an inclined chute, to produce quality chips.

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Chippers - Veneer

Higher productivity results from controlled feeding and compressed volume of stacked veneer. The Veneer Chipper can normally process the veneer residual produced by three high production peeler lathes.

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Granules
Fiber-based Granules

Kadant GranTek Inc. transforms papermaking waste products into several viable cellulose granular products used as carriers for pest control in crop protection, green space maintenance, as an all purpose industrial absorbent and as premium cat box fillers.

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Doctoring
Doctor Blade Holders

Doctor blade holders position the doctor blade firmly against the roll, accommodate roll surface irregularities, compensate for thermal expansion, and facilitate rapid blade changes.

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Doctor Blades

Doctor blades are used to clean rolls and remove stock accumulations, water, pitch, and filler buildup.

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Double Doctoring Systems

A double doctor system provides the extra performance of two independently adjustable doctor blades within one unit.

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Roll Cleaning Blade Holders

Roll cleaning blade holders position the roll cleaning blade firmly against the roll, accommodate roll surface irregularities, compensate for thermal expansion, and facilitate rapid blade changes.

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Roll Cleaning Blades

Roll cleaning blades are used to clean rolls and remove stock accumulations, water, pitch, and filler buildup.

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Roll Cleaning Systems

Roll cleaner systems provide a compact and unique design that offers excellent cleaning results to improve uptime and reduce maintenance costs in a variety of industrial roll and belt cleaning applications.

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Cleaning
M-Clean™ Cleaning Systems

The M-clean cleaning system is a modular cleaning system that uses high-pressure water in combination with an effective evacuation and air knife system to remove contaminants.

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Mist Elimination Systems

The Mist Eliminator incorporates standard paper machine components to thoroughly clean forming fabrics and eliminate mist that is often associated with high-pressure showering.

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Oscillating Shower Systems

Reliable oscillating shower systems are critical to paper machine performance. Proper oscillation improves cleaning and conditioning for better moisture profile management and enhanced product finish.

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Oscillating Showers

Oscillating showers are used in a variety of applications where high-pressure water jets are required to clean paper machine fabrics or cylinders.

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Spray Nozzles

Kadant applies extensive know-how and hands-on experience to create a spray nozzle that is optimized for aspecific application. Selecting a spray nozzle material appropriate for the water quality and application will result in optimal water use in high-pressure shower systems.

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Stationary Showers

Stationary showers are used in applications where an even full-width distribution of water is required.

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Filtration
Inline Pressure Filters

In-line filters can have a single or duplex arrangement. A single in-line filter is used in applications where the flow can be interrupted, or the filter can be bypassed when the filter element is serviced. Duo filters are used when continuous filtration is required.

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Water Resource Recovery Strainers

A proper water resource recovery system is used to effectively and efficiently reclaim white water, heat, chemicals, and fiber from a variety of paper and pulp mill applications, including DAF filtrate, save-all water, and seal pit water.

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Forming
Drainage Structures

Kadant provides papermaking tools including forming boards, gravity foils, VID™ Forming Technology, and high vacuum dewatering boxes.

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Octopus™ Stock Approach System

Octopus stock approach systems with dilution profiling ability allow the control of CD profile while paper machines are operating.

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Vacuum Control Systems

As demand increases for efficient use of energy and precision in papermaking, the need for reliable and accurate vacuum control on the wet end of the paper machine has never been greater.  Kadant provides all the tools necessary for today’s papermaker to optimize their vacuum control system.

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Paper Curl Control
Paper Curl Control

Kadant delivers a high level of control with curl and moisture correction systems. These patented products include the Steam-Foil® profiling system and Narrow Web Decurler™ profiling system.

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Rotary Joints & Unions
Custom Rotary Unions & Swivel Joints

Kadant Johnson’s product innovation team focuses on making the best solution in the shortest time possible. We provide rapid design and manufacturing services to ensure our new project solutions process for custom rotary unions and swivel joints put our customers at the center of our schedule.

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Multi-Passage Rotary Union

Multi-passage rotary unions are used when more than one media are used simultaneously. A multi-passage rotary union provides multiple seals between stationary connections and rotating equipment, such as a drum, index table, clutch, or spindle.

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Rotary Joints & Unions

A rotary joint, also referred to as a rotary union or rotating union, permits the flow of various media from a stationary supply pipe and into and/or out of rotating equipment. Heat transfer and hydraulic media typically used with rotary joints and rotating unions include steam, water, thermal oil, hydraulic oil, air, and coolant.

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Jet Devices
Desuperheaters

Kadant desuperheaters are designed to reduce the temperature of superheated steam for optimal heat transfer and efficiency.

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Direct Steam Injection Heaters

A direct steam injection heater provides a cost-effective method to heat water and other fluids by injecting steam directly into the fluid. The direct injection heater is designed to handle a wide range of flow rates and deliver hot fluids at precise temperatures.

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Thermocompressors

Kadant Johnson steam jet thermocompressors are designed to boost low pressure steam by accurately mixing the low pressure steam with high pressure steam.

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Condensate Pumps
Condensate Pumps

With no maintenance-intensive components to leak, wear, or fail, the Liqui-Mover condensate pump is a naturally more reliable than conventional pumps. As a result, the Liqui-Mover condensate pump will work longer, with less maintenance and far less downtime than conventional pumps.

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Replacement Level Control

Replacement level controls are available in both float and float free™ designs. The replacement assemblies are a reliable and cost effective solution for high maintenance pressure-powered pumps.

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Steam Systems
Corrugator Steam Systems

The first priority of a corrugator steam system is to provide maximum temperature at the liner and medium interface for glue bonding. The ThermoMax system provides maximum steam pressure to the corrugator rolls and two preheater rolls that immediately precede them.

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Steam Systems

For more than 80 years, Kadant Johnson has applied a systematic, application-specific approach to solving steam and fluid handling challenges.

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Accessories
Air & Steam Separators

To improve the operating efficiency of pneumatic equipment, Kadant Johnson air separators eliminate 99% of entrained contaminants including moisture, pipe scale, dirt and oil.

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Flexible Metal Hose

Kadant Johnson flexible hose has been engineered especially for use as inlet and outlet connections to Kadant Johnson rotary joints. It prevents pipe strains from creating tension or stress on the rotary joint, and does not restrict the joint's built-in flexibility.

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Sight Flow Indicators

Kadant sight flow indicators are engineered to provide visual observation of liquid and gas flows. These pipeline indicators are available with ductile iron or bronze bodies. All glass windows are made of Pyrex® or equal.

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Vacuum Breakers

Kadant Johnson vacuum breakers provide a simple, dependable way to relieve unwanted vacuum which may develop in a closed vessel or pipeline. They can be used to prevent contamination from back siphonage in fluid handling systems, and to protect equipment against collapse or implosion.

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Engineered Wood (OSB)
Alignment Conveyor

In addition to improved strand quality, the Kadant Carmanah Alignment Conveyor has been proven to significantly increase fill factor when processing logs in a "shingle-feed" application.

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Disposable Knife System

Available for SmartRING and SmartDISC Stranders, Kadant Carmanah's Disposable Knife System eliminates traditional knife grinding room operations.

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Stranders - SmartDISC

The Kadant Carmanah 37/118 SmartDISC Strander cuts tree length or batch fed logs into strands for OSB production. An innovative clamping system secures the logs in place while the Strander, which is carriage mounted, extends into the cutting chamber.

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Stranders - SmartRING

The SmartRING Strander cuts tree length or batch fed logs into strands for OSB production. An innovative clamping system secures the logs in place while the carriage mounted Strander extends into the cutting chamber.

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Chipping/Screening
Chip Screening

Kadant Carmanah has more than 80 years of chip screen application and manufacturing experience. The company’s suspended chip screen design is a result of that experience.

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Chippers - Disc (Wastewood)

Kadant Carmanah produces some of the wood industry's highest quality and robust chippers for waste-wood and whole-log applications.

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Chippers - Disc (Whole Log)

Kadant Carmanah produces some of the wood industry's highest quality and robust chippers for waste-wood and whole-log applications.

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Chippers - Drum

The SKD (Straight Knife Drum) Chipper uses straight-edged knives mounted across the face of a cylindrical drum, fed from an inclined chute, to produce quality chips.

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Chippers - Veneer

Higher productivity results from controlled feeding and compressed volume of stacked veneer. The Veneer Chipper can normally process the veneer residual produced by three high production peeler lathes.

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Debarking
Debarker - Fuji King

The Fuji King Rotary Debarker is an innovative development in debarking technology employing a combination of mechanical abrasion and log-to-log contact to efficiently remove bark from logs of all shapes and species.

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Kadant Inc. is a global supplier of high-value, critical components and engineered systems used in process industries worldwide. The Company’s products, technologies, and services play an integral role in enhancing process efficiency, optimizing energy utilization, and maximizing productivity in resource-intensive industries. Kadant is based in Westford, Massachusetts with approximately 2,800 employees in 20 countries worldwide.

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  • February 13, 2019 at 4:28 PM EST
    Summary ToggleKadant Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Results
    Record Revenue, Bookings and Diluted EPS in FY 2018 WESTFORD, Mass. , Feb. 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kadant Inc. (NYSE: KAI) reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 29, 2018 . Fourth Quarter Financial Highlights Revenue increased 10% to $164 million
  • February 13, 2019 at 4:26 PM EST
    Summary ToggleKadant Announces CEO Succession Plan
    WESTFORD, Mass. , Feb. 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kadant Inc. (NYSE: KAI) today announced that Jeffrey L. Powell will be named president effective April 1, 2019 and chief executive officer and a director effective July 1, 2019 , as part of a succession plan adopted by the board of directors.
  • February 8, 2019 at 4:10 PM EST
    Summary ToggleKadant to Hold Earnings Conference Call on Thursday, February 14, 2019
    WESTFORD, Mass. , Feb. 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kadant Inc. (NYSE: KAI) announced it will release its 2018 fourth quarter and full-year results after the market closes on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 and will hold a webcast the next day, Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. eastern time .
  • January 2, 2019 at 4:35 PM EST
    Summary ToggleKadant Completes Acquisition of Syntron Material Handling
    WESTFORD, Mass. , Jan. 02, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kadant Inc. (NYSE: KAI) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Syntron Material Handling Group, LLC and certain of its affiliates (“Syntron”), a leading provider of material handling equipment and systems to various process
  • December 19, 2018 at 4:21 PM EST
    Summary ToggleKadant Increases Borrowing Capacity
    WESTFORD, Mass. , Dec. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kadant Inc. (NYSE: KAI) announced that on December 14, 2018 it amended its existing credit agreement (“Credit Agreement”) to increase its committed borrowing capacity under its revolving credit facility to $400 million , increase its uncommitted
  • December 10, 2018 at 4:20 PM EST
    Summary ToggleKadant Appoints Erin L. Russell as New Independent Director
    WESTFORD, Mass. , Dec. 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kadant Inc. (NYSE:KAI) today announced that Erin L. Russell has been appointed to the Company’s board of directors, effective January 1, 2019 . Ms. Russell, whose term will begin on January 1, 2019 , was appointed to the class of directors the

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