Paper mill

Whether pan mill, beater or screw press, even though paper mills were extensively equipped with machinery from the second half of the 19^th century on, several important jobs were not easy to mechanise. Papermaking remained manual work for a long time, as paper was taken from the vat page by page by hand.

The TECHNOSEUM demonstrates how millboards were made with the original machines. A pulp made of cellulose or recovered paper is prepared in the pan mill between the turning runners. A vat machine turns it into a paper web and winds it in several sheets onto a roller. The sheets of paper are then removed from the machine by hand, pressed in stacks and hung up to dry individually. Hydropower was the most important energy source for producing paper – this is also apparent from the mighty six-meters-wide water wheel from 1892, which can be admired at the TECHNOSEUM.