Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a product from a starting material. At least one material batch is collected onto a conveyor or into a conveyor from material portions, the mate-rial batch is heated to a desired temperature and/or a desired temperature is maintained in the material batch on the conveyor or in the conveyor, the conveyor is moved to transfer the material batch to a product manufacturing device in which the product is manufactured from the material batch by a shape-giving tool, and the mate-rial batch is measured or weighed, and the material portions are adjusted based on the measurement results. In addition, the invention relates to the use of the method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a container for liquid containing food products, manufactured by press forming of a polymer coated fiber based substrate, said container comprising a bottom portion, a sidewall portion and a top flange portion, wherein said press forming has resulted in the formation a plurality of creases extending in a direction from the bottom portion to the top flange portion and further across the top flange portion. The container comprises an indentation pattern (130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190a, 190b, 200) formed at a creased inner surface of said sidewall portion and/or at a creased top surface of said top flange portion, said indentation pattern preventing migration of liquid from a liquid containing food product in the container along said creases. The invention relates also to a method for manufacturing such container.

Abstract: A pallet (100) comprises a platform section (101) and foot sections (103-107) protruding downwards from the platform section. The pallet comprises at least one elongated support element (108) between opposite edge areas of the pallet and going via a lower portion of a foot section (107) that is between and distances away from the opposite edge areas of the pallet. The elongated support element is connected to the opposite edge areas of the pallet with connections (109, 110) for receiving tensile stress acting on the elongated support element. The tensile stress of the elongated support element is increased in response to downwards arching bending of the platform section. Thus, the elongated support element tends to prevent the bending of the platform section.

Abstract: The disclosure includes a method and an apparatus for forming a material batch in a continuous manner to form an end product. A material batch (4) is formed from material pieces (1) of predetermined sizes on a temporary storage device (2) by leaving a gap between each of the material pieces (1), and at least two temporary storage devices (2, 108) are arranged side by side and/or one above the other in order to collect the material batch, and the material batch is collected on a temporary storage device such that a material batch is collected on each of the temporary storage devices one after the other and the next material batch is formed on a next temporary storage device when the previous material batch is ready on a previous temporary storage device.

Abstract: A plant cultivation pot comprises a first paper fiber board constituting a wall portion of the plant cultivation pot and a second paper fiber board constituting a bottom portion of the plant cultivation pot. The plant cultivation pot comprises a plinth portion so that a part of the wall portion is below the bottom portion in the height direction of the plant cultivation pot. An outline of a lower edge of the first paper fiber board constituting the plinth portion is provided with cuts extending towards an upper rim of the plant cultivation pot. Thus, the cuts form openings in the wall portion through which roots of a plant can grow out from the plant cultivation pot.

Abstract: An ultrasound crystallization device includes a tubular crystallization reactor (102) for conducting process fluid containing substance to be crystallized, an ultrasound source (104) for radiating ultrasound to the tubular crystallization reactor, and a temperature-control structure (105) for controlling the temperature of the process fluid with the aid of temperature-control fluid. The tubular crystallization reactor is shaped to conduct the process fluid to flow around the ultrasound source, and the temperature-control structure comprises a flow-guide structure (106) for guiding at least a part of the temperature-control fluid to flow around the ultrasound source. The flow-guide structure improves the accuracy of the temperature control of the process fluid and also the ability of the temperature control to react to changes.

Abstract: A system for processing material, for example recycled material, comprises a compacting device (101) for compacting the material and a treatment device (102) for agglomerating, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding the compacted material. The compacting device comprises a compacting chamber (103) and a compacting element (104) that is moveable in the compacting chamber to reduce the volume of the compacting chamber so as to compact the material to be delivered to the treatment device. As the material is compacted prior to being agglomerated, pelletized, or nozzle-extruded, supply of the material to the treatment device can be more reliable especially when the material is chopped waste plastic or other fluffy material including much air. Furthermore, efficiency of the agglomeration, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding is improved because the compacting increases density of the material prior to the agglomeration, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for treating a starting material, wherein the starting material (1) that contains at least organic material is mixed and agglomerated in a mixing stage (4) in the presence of heat to form agglomerated mixture material (5), the mixture material is mechanically pressed in a pressing stage (8) where the temperature of the mixture material rises due to the pressing, and a predetermined product (9) is formed in the pressing stage. Further, the invention relates to the use of the method.

Abstract: A system for processing material, for example recycled material, comprises a compacting device (101) for compacting the material and a treatment device (102) for agglomerating, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding the compacted material. The compacting device comprises a compacting chamber (103) and a compacting element (104) that is moveable in the compacting chamber to reduce the volume of the compacting chamber so as to compact the material to be delivered to the treatment device. As the material is compacted prior to being agglomerated, pelletized, or nozzle-extruded, supply of the material to the treatment device can be more reliable especially when the material is chopped waste plastic or other fluffy material including much air. Furthermore, efficiency of the agglomeration, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding is improved because the compacting increases density of the material prior to the agglomeration, pelletizing, or nozzle-extruding process.

Abstract: A pallet (100) comprises a platform section (101) and foot sections (103-107) protruding downwards from the platform section. The pallet comprises at least one elongated support element (108) between opposite edge areas of the pallet and going via a lower portion of a foot section (107) that is between and distances away from the opposite edge areas of the pallet. The elongated support element is connected to the opposite edge areas of the pallet with connections (109, 110) for receiving tensile stress acting on the elongated support element. The tensile stress of the elongated support element is increased in response to downwards arching bending of the platform section. Thus, the elongated support element tends to prevent the bending of the platform section.

Abstract: An ultrasound crystallization device comprises a tubular crystallization reactor (102) for conducting process fluid containing substance to be crystallized, an ultrasound source (104) for radiating ultrasound to the tubular crystallization reactor, and a temperature-control structure (105) for controlling the temperature of the process fluid with the aid of temperature-control fluid. The tubular crystallization reactor is shaped to conduct the process fluid to flow around the ultrasound source, and the temperature-control structure comprises a flow-guide structure (106) for guiding at least a part of the temperature-control fluid to flow around the ultrasound source. The flow-guide structure improves the accuracy of the temperature control of the process fluid and also the ability of the temperature control to react to changes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a shaped paperboard product. According to the invention, a paperboard blank is shaped by means of a shaping tool (2) comprising a female tool element (3) and a male tool element (4), of which tool elements one is moved relative to the other tool element, and a frame tool element (5) arranged in connection with the male tool element, and the brim of the paperboard product being formed is evened by means of the frame tool element in connection with shaping. The invention also relates to the use of the apparatus.

Abstract: A method and a device to fabricate a composite product, where an intermediate product is formed from raw material including fibre containing material and polymer based material with the help of extrusion and a composite product is shaped from the intermediate product with at least one shaping tool wherein the cross sectional profile of the intermediate product is shaped with at least one extrusion tool during the extrusion and the temperature of the intermediate product is controlled after the extrusion tool so that in different parts of the cross sectional profile of the intermediate product different temperature zones are arranged according to the predetermined target values of the temperature ranges.

Abstract: A filter element for pulp screens comprising at least two plates separated by a distance from each other, wherein one plate has a number of projections formed thereon, and the projections being directed towards the other plate. The plates are attached to each other at the projections.

Abstract: A forming method for producing wall and ceiling cladding sheets from sheetmetal, wherein embossed patterns are pressed into a metal sheet so that they cover the entire surface area of the sheet substantially uniformly. In the method, the embossed pattern is formed from a number of flute portions oriented at an angle to each other and an intersection of these, the intersection and all the flute portions extending from it to a distance from the intersection being produced in a single embossing operation. In addition, the metal sheet is clamped from opposite sides in an area outside the embossed pattern and held in place so that the embossed pattern is mainly produced as a result of the sheet being stretched in the area of the embossed pattern, and the separately pressed embossed patterns are joined together in the areas of the flute portions.

Abstract: A forming method for producing wall and ceiling cladding sheets from sheetmetal, wherein embossed patterns are pressed into a metal sheet so that they cover the entire surface area of the sheet substantially uniformly. In the method, the embossed pattern is formed from a number of flute portions oriented at an angle to each other and an intersection of these, the intersection and all the flute portions extending from it to a distance from the intersection being produced in a single embossing operation. In addition, the metal sheet is clamped from opposite sides in an area outside the embossed pattern and held in place so that the embossed pattern is mainly produced as a result of the sheet being stretched in the area of the embossed pattern, and the separately pressed embossed patterns are joined together in the areas of the flute portions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a filter element (1) for pulp screens. The filter element (1) comprises at least two plates (2,3) at a distance from each other, of which at least one is provided with a number of projections (4) made on the said plate by forming, the projections being directed towards the other plate. The said plates (2,3) are attached to each other at the projections (4). The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing such plates (2,3).

Abstract: A process and apparatus for the manufacture of a cooking vessel, such as a frying pan (12) or a kettle from a metal blank. The vessel is manufactured by roll forming techniques by using a lower tool (3) that rotates around its axis (2), the form face (6, 7) of the lower tool being designed so that it corresponds to the outer surface of the thus created vessel, and an upper tool (5) that rotates around its axis (4), the surface (9, 10) of the upper tool having a profile that corresponds to the inner surface formed to the vessel. The blank is placed on the form face of the lower tool and the tools (3, 5) are then made to rotate so that the blank rotates along with the lower tool (3), and the surface of the upper tool (5) is in linear roll contact with the blank, whereby the metal is formed in the slot between the tools, spreading out into the desired form of the vessel. A vertical wall on the lower tool adjacent the blank may prevent the blank from becoming dislocated on the lower tool.