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Mondi Frantschach recovery boiler comes on stream


Frantschach in Austria. The €60 million power plant


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investment was launched at an opening ceremony in September attended by around 500 people. “Today is an important milestone


for Mondi in Austria,” said Peter J Oswald, chief executive of Mondi Europe & International, at the ceremony. “We are the proud owners of one the most


new ‘green’ recovery boiler has been started up at Mondi Kraft Paper’s mill at


used in the correct order.” The new RB4 recovery boiler,


sophisticated recovery boilers in our industry and this makes us greener and more competitive. “By using wood to make paper,


before burning it to create energy, we are following an ecologically


established cascading usage principle which also creates five times more value and seven times more jobs. The investment is another example of us ensuring that wood, our key resource, is being


constructed by Andritz and Porr, replaces two existing units that were installed in the 1950s and 1970s. It enables the mill to greatly reduce its carbon footprint with 96 percent of Frantschach’s electrical energy needs now coming from renewable sources. The boiler will operate on biogenic fuel produced during the paper production process. Andritz and Porr were responsible


for its construction and the project was finalised on time and in budget.


Metso strengthens its global engineering scope


Metso has made acquisitions in Brazil and India that are intended to respectively strengthen its project management and its engineering capabilities. In Brazil, Metso and


Progen, a leading domestic engineering and consulting company that specialises in project management and implementation, have formed a joint venture, Valpro gerenciamento de obras Ltda, which will manage Metso projects in the South American


pulp, paper and energy market, supplying specialised technical services in construction and erection management, commissioning and start-ups. “We believe in the potential of the pulp, paper and energy market. It will continue to be an interesting segment, especially with the Chinese demand, that has boosted the Brazilian pulp exports,” said Progen’s chief executive Eduardo Barella. Edmund Schwarz, Projects and Supply Chain director at Metso,


said: “From now on we will have a leading company fully dedicated to site management, performed earlier by subcontractors. We will ally what is best at Metso and Progen and apply it at Valpro.” In India Metso has acquired engineering company EPT Engineering Services Private Limited, a privately-owned company providing design, detail engineering and value added services such as conceptual design and 3D modelling to the power, pulp and paper, oil, gas


and petrochemical industries. “The acquisition of EPT follows


our strategy to improve our cost- competitiveness and to serve our customers better, both locally and globally,” said Olli Karavirta, vice president of Operations at Metso Power. “This acquisition gives also Metso a 100 per cent ownership of the joint venture, Metso Power India Private Limited, where EPT has been a minority owner. Metso did not reveal the value of either deal.


Tissue analyser workshop being held during MIAC


Pulp and tissue producers, chemical suppliers and tissue converters have been invited to a special workshop being held during the MIAC show in Lucca, Italy. A Tissue Softness Analyser (TSA) is


being launched by Emtec Electronic and the Center of Paper Quality Lucense, adjacent to the show. Emtec says the analyser is


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becoming an industrial standard worldwide, because it opens completely new and exciting options for process optimisation, complaint management, product development and QA. From 9am on Thursday 17


October there will be a two-hour presentation about the TSA and the “subjective versus objective


determination of the tissue hand feel”, followed by the opportunity to discuss the technology with experts and to measure tissue samples. For more information about the workshop contact Sandra Vogt by email at s.vogt@emtec- papertest.de


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