Chapter 8420 — Customs Tariff Headings

Andritz Calender for Woven Fabrics

An industrial calender with a vertical roller configuration, designed specifically for finishing woven textiles. It applies uniform pressure and heat to achieve a smooth, glossy surface and controlled thickness, a core calendering function for textile production.

Calender Rollers for Textile Machines (Set)

A matched set of heated steel cylinders specifically engineered for replacement in textile calendering machines, with textile-compatible surface finishes. These cylinders are parts of calendering machines and are classified under this tariff item as cylinders for such machines.

Gloss Calender for Coated Paper

A high-gloss calender with mirror-finished chrome rolls for premium magazine and catalog coated papers. This machine is used for paper finishing, which falls under this tariff item for calendering machines other than for metals or glass.

King Roll Calender Cylinder

A large-diameter heated steel king roll cylinder serving as the primary pressure roll in paper calenders, essential for uniform paper web compression. This cylinder is specifically for paper calendering machines and falls under this tariff item as a cylinder for such machines.

Kraft Paper Rolling Calender

A heavy-duty calender optimized for thick kraft paper used in sack and bag production, with a robust frame construction. This machine is specifically designed for paper calendering, falling under this tariff item.

Laser-Controlled Paper Calender

An advanced calender using laser measurement for real-time roll profile adjustment, ensuring uniform paper thickness. Despite the automation, its core function is paper calendering, which falls under this tariff item.

Menzel Super Calender for Fabrics

A super calender with multiple steel rollers, engineered to impart a high-gloss finish to cotton and synthetic fabrics. This machine is dedicated to textile calendering, a process that falls squarely within the scope of this tariff item.

Monforts Thermex Calendering Machine

A continuous calender using steam-heated cylinders for finishing synthetic fabrics and preparing them for coating. This machine is specifically designed for textile calendering operations, making it classifiable under this tariff item.

Multi-Nip Paper Calender Stack

A stack of 8-12 nips with automated pressure controls for high-volume newsprint and printing paper finishing. This calendering stack is specifically for paper production, falling under this tariff item.

Paperboard Coating Calender

A precision calender for post-coating rolling of paperboard, consolidating coating layers and achieving uniform thickness. This machine is dedicated to paperboard finishing, falling under this tariff item.

Paper Calendering Machine

A specialized rolling machine equipped with multiple heated steel rolls used to apply pressure and heat to paper webs, enhancing smoothness and gloss during paper production. This machine is explicitly a paper calender, falling under this tariff item.

Santex-Srim Calender for Nonwovens

A precision calender for spunbond nonwoven fabrics, featuring embossing roller capabilities for pattern imprinting. This machine is used for rolling nonwoven textiles, a function that falls under this tariff item for calendering machines.

Scholl Textile Calendering Machine

A specialized calendering machine for finishing woven fabrics by passing them through heated rollers to achieve a smooth, glossy surface. This machine is explicitly a textile calender, falling under this tariff item for calendering machines other than for metals or glass.

Soft-Nip Calender Machine

A modern calender with compliant rubber nip rolls for gentle finishing of tissue and hygiene papers, preventing web breaks. This machine is used for paper finishing, specifically for tissue products, falling under this tariff item.

Temafa Textile Rolling and Calendering Line

An automated production line combining fabric rolling with calendering for nonwovens and technical textiles, featuring adjustable heated rollers. This machine is dedicated to textile processing, specifically calendering and rolling, which falls under this tariff item.

Belted Calender Cylinder

A steel cylinder for extended nip belt calenders using polymer belts for soft compression in board production. It is used in paperboard calendering applications.

Chilled Iron Paper Roll

A chilled cast iron roll with a hardened shell for wear resistance in pulp dryer sections and calenders. It is used in paper machine rolling functions.

Chiller Cylinder for Textile Rolling Machines

A water-cooled steel cylinder used in textile rolling machines to cool and set fabrics after heat treatment during calendering. It is a specialized cylinder for textile processes, ensuring proper fabric finishing.

Chrome-Plated Pressure Cylinder for Fabric Calenders

A chrome-plated steel cylinder providing uniform pressure in textile calendering stacks for wrinkle-free fabric output. It is a core component of textile rolling machines, designed for fabric finishing.

Corrugator Roll for Linerboard

A precision-ground steel corrugating roll for medium formation in corrugated paperboard production lines. It functions as a paperboard rolling cylinder.

Deflection-Controlled Paper Cylinder

A variable crown roll with hydraulic or thermal compensation for uniform line pressure across a paper web. It is used in advanced calendering in high-speed paper machines.

Embossing Roller Cylinder for Textile Finishing

A hardened steel cylinder engraved with patterns for embossing textures onto fabrics during the calendering process in textile machinery. It is dedicated to textile rolling applications.

King Roll for Supercalender

A heated king roll serving as the bottom cylinder in multi-roll supercalenders for glossy paper and board finishing. It is essential for paper calendering with precise temperature control.

Laser-Engraved Calender Sleeve

A thin-walled steel sleeve with a laser-etched pattern for textured paper surfaces in specialty calenders. It is a replaceable design for paper machine cylinders.

Matte Roll for Newsprint Calender

A reverse crown roll providing controlled gloss reduction in newsprint calenders for a uniform printing surface. It is a specialized paper rolling cylinder with an engineered crown profile.

Paper Calendering Roll

A hardened steel cylinder designed specifically for use in supercalenders to impart a smooth finish to paper webs during the paper manufacturing process. It is a cylinder for calendering machines.

Precision Ground Calender Cylinder for Wool Textiles

A highly polished steel cylinder ground to micron tolerances for calendering wool and wool-blend fabrics without fiber damage. It is used in textile-specific rolling machinery.

Soft Nip Calender Roll

A polymer-covered rubber roll paired with steel rolls in soft-nip calenders for high-bulk paper grades like tissue and linerboard. It is used in paper calendering machines.

Textile Calendering Machine Heated Cylinder

A precision-engineered steel cylinder with internal heating elements designed specifically for use in textile calendering machines to apply heat and pressure for finishing fabrics like cotton or synthetics. It is a part of textile rolling machinery.

Yankee Dryer Cylinder

A large cast iron cylinder used in paper machines for non-contact drying of tissue and towel paper grades by steam heating. It is a rolling cylinder integral to paper production machinery.

Leather Finishing Calender Roll

A steel calender roll coated with emery, used in leather finishing calenders to emboss grain patterns and smooth leather surfaces for upholstery. It is a part of a calendering machine for materials other than metal or glass, falling under this tariff item.

Nonwoven Fabric Calender Embossing Roll

A patterned steel roll used in thermal bonding and embossing of nonwoven fabrics, such as those for hygiene products. It is a cylinder for a calendering machine processing textiles, which is not metal or glass, and qualifies as a part under this item.

Plastic Film Calendering Cylinder

A precision-machined cylinder with a patterned surface for PVC calendering lines producing flexible plastic films for flooring and wall coverings. It is a part of a calendering machine for plastics, which is not metal or glass, and falls under this tariff item.

PVC Floor Covering Calender Cooling Roll

A water-cooled chrome cylinder that sets PVC film thickness immediately after heated calender rolls in flooring production. It is a part of a calendering machine for plastics, falling under this tariff item as a cylinder for non-metal, non-glass rolling machines.

Rubber Calendering Machine Roll

A precision-ground steel cylinder used in rubber calendering machines to roll and sheet rubber compounds into uniform thickness for tire manufacturing. It is a part of a calendering machine for rubber, which is not metal or glass, and falls under this tariff item.

Synthetic Rubber Calender Frame Assembly

A heavy-duty fabricated steel frame with journal bearings that holds multiple calender rolls for synthetic rubber sheeting in conveyor belt production. It is a part of a calendering machine for rubber, falling under this tariff item as a part other than cylinders.

Textile Calender Roll Assembly

A heated chrome-plated cylinder assembly for textile finishing calenders that apply finish coatings and compress fabrics to desired thickness and texture. It is a part of a calendering machine for textiles, falling under this tariff item.