16 ANDRITZ Identical twins
Pulp Paper & Logistics
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orelex Shin-Ei recently started up two identi cal ANDRITZ ti ssue machines at its mill on
a greenfi eld site near Mount Fuji, 95 km from Tokyo. According to the president of Corelex Shin- Ei, the machines are, “Robust, effi cient, environmentally friendly and easy-to-use”. The Corelex Group started as a machinery company, San-Ei Regulator. In 1969, the decision was made to go into papermaking and that was the beginning
March/April 2017
When Japanese ti ssue maker Corelex Shin-Ei Paper wanted the latest in ti ssue manufacturing systems it turned to ANDRITZ. PPL reports
of Corelex Shin-Ei. Today, the company makes toilet and facial ti ssue from recycled paper in Japan. It also has mills in Vietnam that sell toilet and facial ti ssue products to the local market. “Our fi rst product was Kurochiri,
known as black ti ssue – although it was a grey in colour – because it was the simplest and the least expensive kind to produce,” says Satoshi Kurosaki, president of
Corelex Shin-Ei. “It was produced from recycled newspapers and magazines. No de-inking, just a pulper and a ti ssue machine.” This ti ssue machine, which had a sucti on former and cylinder design, was later upgraded to give a maximum speed was 1,050 metres per minute with a Yankee diameter of 12 feet (3.66m). “In 2014, we made the decision to consolidate our producti on
into one greenfi eld ti ssue mill,” Kurosaki says. “There were fi nancial incenti ves, since we paid rent for the locati on of the old mill and we paid taxes for a locati on in Fuji City centre.” The mill’s greenfi eld site
is at Fuji City in the eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, nearly at the base of Mount Fuji. Representi ng an investment of 12 billion yen (US$105m), it was
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