Germany, June 24 -- Voith introduces PluraMaze, a new generation of refiner fillings designed to significantly improve energy efficiency and lifetime. The new solution addresses key challenges faced by paper manufacturers worldwide, including rising energy costs, increasing pressure on efficiency and changing raw material qualities.Initial customer installations are demonstrating measurable benefits. For example, Progroup, a packaging paper producer of containerboard based in Burg, Germany, selected PluraMaze 5.6, focusing specifically on energy efficiency and process stability under comparable operating conditions.These energy savings are the result of a newly developed filling geometry based on a labyrinth like structure. The patent-pendi...