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Pro-Gest aims to produce more packaging from recycled waste paper
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taly’s Pro-Gest Group has ordered a complete waste paper processing plant and approach system from
Andritz for its new paper machine in Mantova.
Andritz will deliver the old-
corrugated-containers (OCC) line for the top ply; MW (mixed waste) line for the back ply; paper machine approach system including Shortflow Deaeration; as well as the broke handling, fibre recovery, and reject handling systems. The order also includes engineering, erection supervision, start-up, commissioning, and training with startup scheduled for
September 2017. Pro-Gest’s objective for the machine is to yearly produce 550,000 tons of fluting from 100 per cent waste paper. Owned by the Zago family, Pro-
Gest is Italy’s leading vertically- integrated producer of corrugated board from the collection of raw materials to packaging production. The group also includes an integrated tissue manufacturing
division, featuring the full range of high quality products. Pro-Gest has 22 production sites
in Italy with sales in 2015 of €450 million.
CMPC’s new Protisa mill in Peru orders double-width tissue machine
Chile’s CMPC has ordered a double-width tissue machine from Valmet for installation in the new mill of its subsidiary Protisa at Cañete in Peru. The VTM4 machine, which is scheduled to start up in the first half of 2017, will have a design speed of 2,000 metres per minute and produce 55,000 metric tons of tissue a year. The order includes the machine and energy-efficient technologies including equipment for the approach flow system, MasterJet T headbox, CrescentFormer, NipcoFlex T shoe press, MasterReel reeler with automatic spool change, DCS (Distributed Control System), MCS (Machine Control System) and QCS (Quality Control System) automation
systems, as well as the machine’s whole start up process. The project will be supplied in the PLP (Process Line Package) mode, in which Voith is responsible for contracting and managing the supply of all the equipment and services necessary for the operation of the machine. Flávio Silva, president of Voith
Paper South America, said: “Voith Paper’s business strategy in South America, which is focused on developing solutions and technologies that add value to the customer’s business, has contributed for the company to be chosen as CMPC’s partner in this strategic expansion project for the construction of the new tissue mill in Peru.”
Cheng Loong Binh Duong Paper orders key process technology
Key process technology is being supplied by Valmet for Cheng Loong Binh Duong Paper’s new BM1 containerboard machine at the Ben Cat mill in Binh Duong Province in Vietnam. The order includes a headbox, forming and press sections, a winder and quality measurement systems. Start up of the 6.25m-wide machine on a greenfield site is expected at the beginning of 2018, when it will produce up to 260,000 tonnes a year of recycled fluting with a basis weight range of 90 to 180 g/sqm. Jari Vähäpesola, president of
Valmet’s Paper Business Line, said: “The containerboard market is growing globally driven by increasing e-commerce and new packaging applications.
Valmet has developed a number of excellent solutions to meet the market needs. Energy efficiency, high board quality and very good productivity are among the most important highlights of Cheng Loong’s board machine.”
Cheng Loong Binh Duong
Paper is part of Cheng Loong Corporation, which was established in 1959. It has four paper mills, seven box plants and a business form plant. It has also established manufacturing and sales sites in China, Vietnam, Japan, and the United States. Its annual production capacity is 2.12 million tonnes of paper and paperboard and nearly two billion square metres in converting products.
September/October 2016
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