Xerium Technologies, a leading provider of industrial consumable products and services, has achieved an important milestone by accomplishing the sale of the 1,000th TransForm forming fabric. The TransForm portfolio of high-performance forming fabrics has been successful on some of the most demanding paperboard and packaging production lines in the world.

“Our new TransForm technology has rapidly built a strong track record for tangible operational and financial benefits for our customers,” said Bill Butterfield, EVP and CTO of Xerium. “We are truly delighted to celebrate the 1,000th fabric milestone in this rapidly growing platform. TransForm is now the preferred technology on some of the world’s most demanding machines and we are excited to see new performance reports coming in from all over the world. Customers are reporting reduced energy consumption, improved fibre retention, better drainage, improved end-product quality, and longer running lifetime.”

The TransForm portfolio delivers best-in-class forming fabric performance for all grades of paperboard and packaging machines including linerboard, corrugating, food board, coated board and boxboard. (SV)