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Pulp Paper & Logistics
Dedicated Metso service centre for new pulp mill in Brazil
north east Brazil is to have its own Metso service centre to supply roll grinding and other maintenance services. The centre at Imperatriz, close
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to the mill, will also provide storage for selected spare parts and consumables from when the mill starts up in the second half of 2013. Metso will also provide a mill
maintenance service for the enti re Maranhão mill. “We have decided to contract Metso to bring equipment manufacturer’s
The ground-breaking ceremony of the new service centre being built in Brazil was held on 25 April. Pictured are (left to right) Adriano Canela, project manager, Suzano Papel e Celulose; Sebastião Madeira, Mayor of City of Imperatriz; Elio Krummenauer, director, services, South America, Metso; Volnei Remor Hilbert, industrial manager of Suzano Maranhão mill; Celso Tacla, area president, South America, Pulp, Paper and Power, Metso; and Jukka Tiitinen, president, services business line, Pulp, Paper and Power, Metso
process knowledge and maintenance experti se in
establishing maintenance for the Maranhão mill,” said
uzano Papel e Celulose’s huge new 1.5m-tonne pulp mill at Maranhão in
José Alexandre, industrial director at Suzano Papel e Celulose. “We expect to have effi cient maintenance plans and organizati on in order to contribute to a reliable start-up and quick learning curve, from the fi rst days of operati on.” All main technology for the
Maranhão pulp mill is being supplied by Metso, covering wood handling, cooking plant and fi breline, pulp drying and baling, evaporati on, power boiler, recovery boiler, causti cising and lime kiln, and an integrated automati on soluti on for all process areas.
Fire damages Smurfit Kappa fibre yard
Metso expands fabric service centre in China
An extension to Metso’s Tianjin service centre, which manufactures forming, dryer and fi lter fabrics for the Chinese and Asia-Pacifi c markets, has been opened. The service centre, in the city of Tianjin, China, started with 45 employees in 2008 and today employs 200 service professionals. A new heat setti ng machine
for fabrics manufacture and an expansion of laboratory faciliti es were included in the
May 2013
Getting closer to customers: Metso’s Tianjin service centre has been expanded
extension. Metso has in additi on concentrated all fabrics producti on to Tianjin by moving its Shanghai fi lter fabrics operati ons to Tianjin. “This extension is in line with
Metso’s strategy for services growth and brings fabrics producti on closer to customers in Asia,” said Jukka Tiiti nen, president of services business line, Pulp, Paper and Power, Metso.
A fi re severely damaged Smurfi t Kappa’s recovered fi bre yard at its Nechells mill in Birmingham, UK, in April. Around 9,000 tonnes of
cardboard bales, nearly a quarter of its stock supply covering seven acres of a 22- acre site, were destroyed. West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) said that the cause of the fi re was under investi gati on, but was not believed to be suspicious. At the height of the fi re the WMFS had more than 100 fi re fi ghters, 28 fi re engines, two aerial appliances and a high volume pumping unit in att endance. A Smurfi t Kappa
spokeswoman said that 9,000 tonnes of recovered fi bre were damaged and the mill was temporarily taken offl ine as a precauti onary measure. “Importantly, there was no damage to the mill due to our water curtain deployment and the wind direction,” she said, adding that management expected production to resume quickly. Around 40,000 tonnes of paper and cardboard, collected from Birmingham residents, is used by the SSK Paper Mill every year. The recovered material is used by the mill as a raw material to make new packaging papers.
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