Pulp Paper & Logistics
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Metalicplas ups tissue capacity to almost 100,000 tons
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iverse Romanian group Metalicplas has started up a new tissue machine
supplied by A.Celli Paper. The project follows investment in Metalicplas last year by Abris Capital Partners which has enabled the company, which also makes wire mesh, to become the leader for tissue projects in Romania and south east Europe. With mills at Dej and Petresti, Metalicplas will have increased its tissue production by 34,000 tons a year to almost 100,000 tons of parent reels a year Italy-based A.Celli Paper supplied the new tissue machine as part of a turnkey project that includes ancillary equipment and the company’s latest generation hood design. With a wire width of 2,800mm at the pope reel and an operating speed of up to 1,800 metres per minute, its daily capacity is 110 tons.
The supply included a 100 per cent pure cellulose pulp preparation system designed to process long and short fibres, and a reel handling system.
“For Metalicplas and for the
entire group, 2015 was a year of renewal marked by important strategic changes and major investments. To grow, we need to place our trust in first-quality partners and A.Celli Paper has
shown to be a reliable supplier capable of offering high-level technology, thus answering specific requests and particular needs,” said a representative of the company. Metalicplas is owned by Pehart
Grup which has three tissue converting sites and is the major independent producer of tissue in Romania. In addition to its leading brands Pufina and Alint, Pehart also produces private label tissue products.
Östrand pulp mill expansion includes Andritz kit
As part of one of the largest industrial investments in Sweden, SCA has ordered production technologies and equipment from Andritz for the expansion of its Östrand pulp mill at Timrå. With start-up expected in 2018, the project includes wood yard equipment designed for
cold climates. This embraces debarking drums and HHQ chippers; a pulp dryer with innovative, energy-saving technologies that substantially reduce the mill’s operating costs, including a boiler exhaust energy recovery system, fine screening, a twin wire dewatering system, sheet dryer, cutter, and two
balling lines; a major upgrade of the white liquor plant with new recausticizing machinery and a capacity increase of the existing lime kiln; and extension of an Andritz recovery boiler, supplied in 2006. The Östrand mill’s expansion will more than double its capacity from 430,000 to 900,000 tons
to become the largest mill in the world for softwood kraft pulp. About half of the production volume will be used for SCA’s own manufacturing of publication papers and hygiene products, while the remainder will be sold to external tissue producers to meet the growing demand for softwood kraft pulp.
January/February 2016
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