MG-Cylider/ Yankee Cylinder

About the sound

Sound of a large rotating polishing cylinder in a cardboard machine. The cylinder is for perfecting the surface. TAKO KK3 cylinder is 4.8 metres in diameter. The big diameter allows the cardboard to stay longer in the surface of the cylinder, which makes the cardboard surface smooth. Its capacity is 70 000 tons/annually, its speed 200-300m/min and it makes one machine roll (13 tons) in less than an hour. The trim width up to 3.33 m and grammage range 200-240g/m2.
Manufacturer Voith GmbH, Germany in 1953, renewals 1981:dry end by Tampella, wet end by Ahlström, cylinder by Voith.

Metsä Board Tako is the last large industrial establishment still working beside the Tammerkoski rapids in the center of Tampere. Metsä Board Tako is part of Metsä Group, one of the largest forest industry groups in the world.
The mill produces high-quality paperboard to be used for all kind of consumer products like chocolate boxes and hard packs for cigarettes. The raw material is in form of CMTP –bales, which are delivered to the factory by trucks. The process of board machines is highly automatized, 200 employees working in shifts can produce 205,000 tons of cardboard annually. The process includes grinding of raw material, the cardboard machine with “wet end”, compressing and drying units and finishing jobs like polishing, coating and cutting units. There are three board lines (cardboard machines) in the factory with two still in operation. The factory has also some supporting units like its own hydroelectric power plant. The factory was established in 1865 and the current mill was built in 1930s.

Sound recordist: Maasa Järvinen
Photographer: : Leena Ahonen
Video recordist: Kimmo Kestinen