16 ANDRITZ


No need for guarantees


Pulp Paper & Logistics


“


W


e didn’t need guarantee runs.” So says Aleksandr Yakovina,


quality director at the PJSC Kyiv Cardboard and Paper Mill, where he started working on BM1 three decades ago.


May/June 2020


An upgrade by Andritz of the BM1 cardboard machine at the Kyiv cardboard mill in Ukraine was turned round much quicker than expected. PPL reports


Kyiv’s BM1 is a 37-year-old machine, one of four identical board lines built during the Soviet era: two in Russia, and two in Ukraine. With a working width of 4.2 metres, BM1 produces


white-top liner and white-lined chipboard (GD2 and GD3) in a basis weight range of 125-420 gsm, combining with the mill’s BM2 to turn out up to 240,000 tonnes per year of packaging


paper and board. The mill at Obukhiv, a little south of Kyiv, sells these products to almost 30 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, with customers


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