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APP makes progress towards sustainability targets
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sia Pulp & Paper Group (APP), attacked by environmentalists for supplying wood
products from natural forests for packaging, says it has been making progress towards a number of key targets, such as to achieve 100 per cent reliance on plantation fibre by 2015. The Singapore-based wood
products giant – its combined pulp and paper output is 7m tonnes a year – published its The Sustainability Roadmap in June, the cornerstone of which was an operation-wide High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) assessment process. The assessments for APP’s suppliers in Indonesia are conducted by independent HCV experts at Remark-Asia and Daemeter, and led by Loy Jones, managing director of Asia Pacific Certification Services. Since then, APP says it has
suspended natural forest clearance and peat land conversion on all APP-owned concessions in Indonesia while the HCV assessments are conducted. Also announced was a plan to roll out HCV assessments to all of APP’s independent suppliers in Indonesia by the end of 2014. At the beginning of September APP published its first Sustainability Roadmap quarterly report, the highlights of which were that: • APP is on track to complete the HCV preliminary assessment process for its own pulpwood concessions in Indonesia by the first quarter of 2013.
• For APP owned concessions in Jambi and Riau provinces, the HCV preliminary assessment process is over 80 per cent completed, and is at the draft
report stage.
• For APP owned concessions in West Kalimantan, the HCV preliminary assessment process is over 50 per cent completed, with site visits currently taking place.
• APP has communicated the HCVF commitment to 100 per cent of independent suppliers.
• The Jambi moratorium has put APP’s HCVF compliance process for independent suppliers well ahead of schedule.
• APP’s target is to achieve 100 per cent reliance on plantation fibre by 2015, subject to a maximum 5 per cent tolerance for MTH waste and residues.
• APP is already ahead of its target to reduce MTH in the supply chain. By June this year, MTH was calculated to account for just 8 per cent of APP Group’s supply of raw
materials, ahead of the target of 12 per cent.
Independent pulpwood suppliers in the region are also joining APP’s sustainability initiative. Two in Jambi – Tebo Multi Agro (TMA) and Rimba Hutani Mas (RHM) – have agreed to join APP’s own Wira Karya Sakti (WKS) company in the region, by suspending natural forest clearance with immediate effect while HCV assessments are conducted.
The Jambi moratorium will
cover gross concession area of 55,584 hectares – in addition to APP’s own WKS concession (gross concession area of 293,812 hectares), where suspension of natural forest clearance is already in place. APP says it is now looking to
identify which areas should be prioritised for the next phase of HCVF assessment.
200th order for Metso’s PQV system
Metso is celebrating the 200th order for its Process and Quality Vision (Metso PQV) system. Delivered to the Metsä Board Simpele mill in south east Finland the system helps to improve runnability and ensures the best quality for the customer through an integrated web break analysis and web inspection system. The new system at Simpele
replaces two separate systems on the machine and provide the ability to detect and follow possible faults and interrelated
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breaks back to their source. A web break analysis system is used to find the origins of web breaks, and a web inspection system is in charge of demanding board structure and surface quality analyses. Metso Process and Quality Vision integrates web break analysis capabilities and web quality inspection using high- frequency camera images to produce a continuous view of the moving web. Three different geometries are typically used in web inspection system
installations. Transmission geometry is used to detect flaws in the sheet, high angle geometry is used for surface defects and low angle geometry is used to detect coating imperfections. The web break analysis camera
images and web inspection information are combined into a common operator interface. This allows the operators to detect key quality faults at well- defined CD and MD locations in the paper web and to track their origins in the process.
Metsä Board is Europe’s
leading producer of fresh forest fibre carton boards. It is also a leading manufacturer of coated white-top kraftliners in the world, and a major paper supplier. The Simpele mill produces folding boxboard for the health care, food and general packaging. The Simpele board machine, rebuilt by Metso in 2011, has an annual capacity of 300,000 tonnes, thus being the largest folding boxboard machine in Europe.
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