Papertech Inc. signs licensing agreement for the products covered under the Champion Patents

Online, November 27, 2009 (Newswire.com) - Under the terms of the agreement, which closed on October 26th, 2009, Papertech is licensed to sell its full range of WebVision® web monitoring and inspection solutions to paper mills around the world.

Champion International Corp. (now International Paper Co.) beginning in March, 1995 filed a series of patent applications "System for monitoring a continuous manufacturing process", which was subsequently approved in February, 1998 under the US Patent 5717456. Further patents were filed around the world (19 in total) and are now in force in several countries such as Canada, France, Mexico, Germany, Sweden and Chile.

A web monitoring system (WMS) comprises of a network of high-speed video cameras linked to a computer running specialized software that controls the acquisition, storage and synchronization of video from each of the cameras. Papertech's WebVision® Digital product, when combined with a web inspection (WIS) solution, such as Papertech's WebInspector™ product, provides a total machine vision integrated solution to resolving various paper break, defect and other paper machine production and quality robbing issues. TotalVision™ WMS product, with its WIS solution, now automatically identifies and classifies defects, and then rapidly allows the papermaker to identify the root cause of the defect all the way to the wet-end of the paper machine.

"Our License Agreement ensures that our customers around the world are receiving the best possible camera solutions to solve their papermaking issues using all available patented products" said Kari Hilden, President of Papertech Inc. He went on to further clarify "With our ever expanding and creative ways of solving papermakers production and quality issues with cameras, we cannot allow any patent issue to come in the way".