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Maintenance support for Australian Paper’s Maryvale Mill
technical support at its Maryvale Mill in Victoria, Australia. The technical support agreement
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(TSA) will focus on providing on-site maintenance technical advice and expertise to the mill’s maintenance organisation and replaces a previous agreement. The Maryvale Mill is Australia’s
largest integrated fine- and packaging-paper operation. It has three pulp lines, five paper making machines, an elemental chlorine free bleach plant, pulp lapping machine, deinked pulp line, finishing facility and a waste paper processing plant, with total production capacity of more than 500,000 tonnes of paper a year.
Peter Williams, operations chief at Australian Paper, and Pierre de Villiers, Valmets’s Vice President Sales, Australia and New Zealand
Valmet’s TSA resources will be
located within the mill’s power and recovery, fibre lines, paper mill and central maintenance areas. “The new agreement builds on the partnership between
Australian Paper and Valmet, providing long term technical input into Australian Paper’s maintenance operation allowing for continuous improvement and development programmes to
ustralian Paper has signed a multi-year deal for Valmet to provide maintenance
be identified and implemented along with specific Pulp & Paper knowledge and know how,” says Peter Williams, operations chief of Australian Paper, which is part of the Nippon Group. Pierre de Villiers, Valmet’s sales chief for Australia and New Zealand, adds: “Australian Paper has continued to develop the Maryvale Mill to ensure its long term sustainability and profitability as a domestic producer of fine paper and packaging grades. “The TSA provides the needed alignment to meet these objectives, reinforces the high level cooperation and commitment between our organizations and provides the platform to move our customer’s performance forward.”
Tenth containerboard line for Lee & Man
China’s Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has ordered a containerboard line from Valmet for its Jiang Xi mill. The OptiConcept M machine,
the tenth to be ordered by Lee & Man, will be used to produce high-quality containerboard grades from 100 percent recycled raw materials when it starts up at the end of 2016. “This repeat order to Valmet
strengthens our long partnership in this business area. With good combination of local and imported know-how Valmet has shown its capability in earlier projects. Lightweighting is a trend in containerboard business and Valmet’s technology is very
Valmet’s OptiConcept M for containerboard production
suitable for these grades,” says Edmond Lee, chief executive of Lee & Man, which yearly produces about seven million tonnes of board in China. Valmet will deliver a complete
board machine with related process automation systems, air systems and winder. With a design speed of 1,200 m/min,
the annual production capacity of the new machine will be about 300,000 tonnes. “OptiConcept M has really made its breakthrough as an industry standard for paper and board manufacturing, which is proven by this repeat order from Lee & Man,” says Juha Kivimaa, Director of Sales Technology in
Valmet’s Paper business. Valmet supplied its first
OptiConcept M machine to Lee & Man in 2012. In addition to Asia, Valmet has delivered similar lines also in North America and Europe, covering grades from recycled containerboards to cartonboards and fine paper.
September/October 2015
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