8 INDUSTRY NEWS
Pulp Paper & Logistics
Prime Minister and Chancellor visit Spooner Industries
Spooner Industries in Yorkshire in February to fi nd out more about the company’s apprenti ce training programme. Spooner, which provides a
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range of services to process industries including the paper and pulp sector, has a long term commitment to training with some 40 per cent of the 64-strong workforce having started as apprenti ces or graduate trainees. Record sales and exports at Spooner were also of interest to
K Prime Minster David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne visited
a great example of the kind of ‘advanced manufacturing’ businesses this Government is trying to get behind.” Spooner managing director
Richard Hey, test centre assistant in the Spooner Test Centre with Prime Minster David Cameron; Steve Newell, deputy managing director of Spooner Industries and Chancellor George Osborne. In the background are Mike Brook, managing director of Spooner Industries and local MP Kris Hopkins
the visitors. Of £30m forecast sales, 70 per cent will be exports to countries such as China, Saudi
Arabia and US, as well as the EU. Commenti ng on his visit, Cameron said: “Spooner is
New laboratory will help improve speciality papers, says Sappi
A new Paper Lab opened at Sappi’s Alfeld mill in Germany will add functi onality to its Competence Centre for Speciality Papers and Boards, says the company. “This Paper Lab will enable
us to take our consistently high quality paper product to an enti rely new level,” says Kristof Mertens, quality control manager at Sappi. “We will also be using the Paper Lab to conduct fi eld quality testi ng with the latest in technological capabiliti es.” The establishment of the Paper Lab is described as a further step in the expansion of the speciality papers division at Sappi and follows the rebuild of the PM 2 paper machine that cost €61 million and was offi cially
March/April 2015
launched during an opening ceremony last year. The new Paper Lab, which
represents a six-fi gure investment, replaces the previously used test line in the climate lab. It incorporates state- of-the-art technology and the broader weight measuring range (from 18 to 400 g/sqm) improves the quality testi ng of speciality papers and carton boards. In operati on around the clock, it is set to test more than 30,000 jumbo rolls or drums each year, corresponding to about 281,000 individual measurements. Aft er every successful check on a jumbo roll or drum, the corresponding producti on batch is assigned a certi fi cate signifying the highest quality in speciality
paper and carton board. Said Mertens: “In the new
Paper Lab, we are testi ng the key quality parameters of paper producti on from all fi ve paper machines in Alfeld. Even with a wide variety of papers and boards and diff erent weights, absolutely every producti on batch is subjected to precise measurement to ensure the quality of the batch. This means we guarantee our customers a unique level of conti nuity in our papers and boards that is unmatched anywhere else in the world.”
Another advantage of the new Paper Lab lies in the comprehensive set of measurements being used and their immediate evaluati on
Mike Brook said: “We were very proud to be selected to showcase our business to the Prime Minster and Chancellor. Their interest and enthusiasm for our ambiti ons and achievements to date will resonate within the company for a long ti me to come. Despite our worldwide success, we remain committ ed to growth, Ilkley and the local community and hope our much needed expansion can be accommodated here.”
Kristof Mertens, quality control manager at Sappi Alfeld GmbH
across the enti re drum width. ”There is no other mill in the
world that has implemented this level of quality control in the manufacturing of speciality paper and boards,” Mertens concludes. “We are extremely proud of this eff ort and look forward to conti nuing to raise the bar on the excepti onal quality of paper and boards that the market has come to expect from Sappi.”
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