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performing board machines. The Valmet-supplied machine, and its maintenance team, has made the mill a benchmark for the papermaking industry. In October 2012, Australian papermaking entered a new era
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rora’s Botany mill in Sydney, Australia, is home to one of the world’s top-
Australia’s leading packaging manufacturer Orora has generated significant sustainability benefits from the installation of a new boardmaking line at its Botany mill. Robert Ryan reports
with the start-up of Orora’s B9, a world-class boardmaking line. With a design capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year, B9 is the largest paper machine operating in Australia. The B9 project represented a
major stride towards efficient paperboard packaging production for Orora Limited, a company that demerged from Amcor in 2013. Within a year of B9 coming on stream, it was operating within the top quartile of board
machines worldwide. That is quite an achievement, but Orora’s mill management team is even more ambitious about performance. “We aim to be in the top three worldwide within three years, in terms of tonnes per meter,” says
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