Pulp Paper & Logistics


MIAC 2018 PREVIEW 15 The world of tissue meets at Lucca


are expected to attend the 25th MIAC show at Lucca in Italy from 10-12 October. They will be meeting 270


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exhibitors to learn about the latest technologies, equipment and services for the production of paper, cartonboard and converting tissue. Lucca is recognised as the ‘paper


district’ of Italy and boasts many of the largest paper makers and their suppliers in the industry. There are more than 140 mills and converters in the region, with 6,500 employees producing two million tons of paper and cartonboard worth around €3.5 billion. Lucca is also home to major companies that supply technologies, machinery and services to the paper industry sector, with 8,000 employees and sales of €2.6 billion. Lucca is part of a strong paper industry in Italy which has 165 mills and 20,000 employees making nine million tons of paper and board worth €6.8 billion, making the country one of the four largest markets in Europe. The MIAC show has exhibitors


covering all sectors of the paper, cartonboard and tissue industry, in product and service categories such as: ● Machinery and plant for the production of paper and board


● Components and parts of paper machines


● Converting machines for tissue ● Instruments and systems for measurement, test, control and management


● Machinery and plant for water treatment


● Plant, machinery and electrical controls


● Raw materials, chemicals and additives


● Machinery and plant for drying, filtration and energy recovery


● Laboratory, diagnostics, logistics, services and plant optimisation


How to get to MIAC MIAC is being held at the Lucca Fiere Exhibition Centre, Via della Chiesa XXXII 237, 55100 Lucca, Italy, but if you are driving there remember that the free parking is at Via Vitricaia, Lucca.


The MIAC Conferences During the three days of MIAC there will be a number of international conferences dedicated to the paper and tissue sector. Participation is free of charge and simultaneous translation is available. All will be held in the MIAC 2018 Conference Room


MIAC Tissue Conference First session: 10 October, from 13.40 to 17.05 Toward the Tissue Paper Mill 4.0 In an increasingly competitive international environment, tissue products have to be produced with increasing efficiency, and in response to market demand and changing consumer needs. Moving in parallel with the production line, both of the paper mill and of the converting, the industry faces a number of critical points


of the process requiring the best available technologies to increase performance, quality and process management.


Second session: 11 October, from 09.40 to 12.50 Toward the Tissue Converting Plant 4.0 In an increasingly competitive international environment, tissue products have to be produced more efficiently, promptly responding to market demands and new consumer needs.


MIAC Energy – Assocarta Conference 11 October from 14.00 to 16.45 Fossil versus Renewable energy: which will be the mix for the paper mill of the Future? The challenging targets in the fight against climate change have led the European pulp and paper industry to study, with the Roadmap 2050, how to achieve them. New energy efficiency measures and technologies need to be introduced in the paper mills, but all this will not be enough if not supported by an overall decarbonised national context.


During the conference, the


most interesting energy efficiency measures will be addressed, as well as the role of renewable energy sources in the reduction of direct and indirect emissions of the paper sector.


MIAC Recycling – Comieco Conference 12 October, from 09.30 to 12.30 Circular economy and environmental measures for quality: the case of paper to be recycled


The Chinese government’s measures against pollution have sharply reduced the value of paper to be recycled around the world. China cannot satisfy the demand for paper and packaging production despite the very high prices at which Chinese paper mills purchase local separate collection of paper.


Only a particularly favourable phase in the domestic and European demand for raw materials for packaging and the consortium guarantee systems operating in Italy seem to have stopped separate collection at a time when Italy and Europe are following the circular economy measures and set higher goals for separate collection and recycling.


ore than 6,000 visitors from the global paper and tissue industries


4 September/October 2018


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