Artisan papermaker jobs in Finland
Artisan papermakers create paper slurry, strain it on screens, and dry it manually or using small scale equipment.
Artisan papermaker - Which skills are essential?
Press a sponge on the pulp and screen to press water or chemical solutions out, forcing the pulp fibres to bond together.
Interpret and meet requirements and expectations, as discussed and agreed upon with the customers.
Create paper slurry or pulp from recycled or used paper with water in mixers and blenders or other equipment. Add colors by adding papers in different colors.
Adjust the paper to the size of the frame and insert a cover paper screen and grid on top of it. Strain the whole, and dump the paper pulp in the opening of the 'mould and deckle'. Distribute the paper pulp, let the water drain out on a metal sheet or cover and remove the mould without the grid.
Meet contract specifications, schedules and manufacturers' information. Check that the work can be carried out in the estimated and allocated time.
Use appropriate questions and active listening in order to identify customer expectations, desires and requirements according to product and services.
The different criteria used to determine differences in paper types such as coarseness and thickness, and the different fabrication methods and wood types from which the types of paper stem.
Use different methods to dry handmade paper, such as air drying, stamping, wiping, vacuum, and iron drying.
Press the paper with a couching sheet or felts and press bar, further draining water of the paper and reducing drying time. The goal is to press in a way that the whole of the paper dries evenly. Press bars can be books, couching sheets or mechanically operated paper presses.
Remove the chemical solution of the digesting process, making paper pulp soft and fibrous.
Different kinds of paper sizes such as folio, quarto, octavo, and sixteen-mo. Each type indicates how many times the paper has to be folded. While these are older, they are nowadays connected with ISO standards such as the A paper sizes.
Kinds of pulp are distinguished based on their fibre type and the specific chemical processes through which they were created.
Artisan papermaker - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Add the required colour according to specifications for tinting batch.
Command products from relevant suppliers to get convenient and profitable products to purchase.
Make up prices and documents for the products that customers may purchase.
Measure the weight and concentration of the pulp slurry for further processing and storage by using disk filters and calculating slurry density with specific formulas.
The range of bleach and others chemicals used to remove the colour from materials in a steam cooking process, adjusting the brightness and colour of the materials.
Dispose waste in accordance with legislation, thereby respecting environmental and company responsibilities.
Fabricate and prepare prototypes or models of objects to be crafted.
Avoid lesser quality and lower grades of recycled paper and pulp by keeping an eye open for stickies, plastics, colour, unbleached fibres, brightness, and dirt.
Varieties of paint and chemicals used in their composition.
Adjust cut sizes and depths of cutting tools. Adjust heights of worktables and machine-arms.
The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.
File and organise personal administration documents comprehensively.
Reach an agreement with the supplier upon technical, quantity, quality, price, conditions, storage, packaging, send-back and other requirements related to the purchasing and delivering process.
Administer currencies, financial exchange activities, deposits as well as company and voucher payments. Prepare and manage guest accounts and take payments by cash, credit card and debit card.