Wash deinking operator
Code 8171.9
Wash deinking operators operate a tank where recycled paper is mixed with water and dispersants to wash out printing inks. The solution, called a pulp slurry, is then dewatered to flush out the dissolved inks.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- quality standards
- deinking processes
- types of paper
- types of pulp
Skills and competences
- supply machine
- concentrate pulp slurry
- monitor chemical process condition
- monitor automated machines
- set up the controller of a machine
- work safely with chemicals
- tend deinking tank
- separate ink
- work safely with machines
- wear appropriate protective gear
- use deinking chemicals
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences