28 PROJECTS & CONTRACTS


Dormant Nordic Kraft pulp mill in Canada to be upgraded


eading forest product supplier in Canada, Chantiers Chibougamau, is having its Nordic Kraft pulp mill in northern Quebec upgraded by ABB. The project will transform the mill at Lebel-Sur-Quevillion, which had been dormant for 12 years prior to its acquisition in 2018. ABB says it will become a modern, efficient and fully-integrated digital site, equipped for the first time with complete quality control. This will accelerate Nordic Kraft’s issue identification and produce


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semi-autonomous responses to conditions leading to fewer quality rejects. “We wanted a reliable and


flexible way to make this mill, inoperative for 12 years, more productive and profitable,” said Dany Bellemare, plant upgrading


Tissue machine at Vajda Papír meets performance targets


Impressive performance has been reported for the new tissue machine installed by Andritz at Vajda Papír’s Dunaföldvár mill in Hungary. The PrimeLineCompact tissue machine – with a design speed of 2,100 m/min, a working width of 2.74m, and a capacity of 35,000 tonnes per year – produces tissue for high-quality facial wipes, napkins, toilet tissue, paper towels, and kitchen roll. The machine is equipped with a PrimePress XT Evo shoe press for improved dewatering as well as a 16ft-diameter PrimeDry Steel Yankee and a ReEvaporation heat recovery system. “We are really satisfied with the quality of our paper. We have received very positive feedback from our customers, who are


July/August 2020


ABB is proving comprehensive support for the Vajda Papír tissue mill with a digital link


impressed by the softness and handfeel,” says Attila Vajda, chief executive of Vajda Papír. The tissue production line has an online connection to the new Metris Performance Center at Graz in Austria. The centre offers comprehensive support for the Vajda Papír tissue mill by providing advanced digital services such as the Metris UX Platform and the proven Metris Optimisation of Process Performance (OPP), thereby ensuring the best process conditions and smooth production.


project manager at Nordic Kraft. “We were impressed by ABB’s commitment to demonstrating the value in every part of their proposed solution and look forward to a long and successful collaboration.”


ABB will supply and integrate


new drives and an Ability Quality Management System. This includes a Web Imaging System and Web Monitoring System into the Ability System 800xA distributed control system. ABB will provide a comprehensive service contract and remote connection for diagnostic and service activity. The order includes a new NP1200


scanner with online sensors for moisture, brightness and ABB’s revolutionary Basis Weight Sensor, which offers industry-leading levels of accuracy and reliability in basis weight measurements.


Offline coater for Oji Papéis Especiais in Brazil


An off-line coating machine is being supplied by Valmet to Oji Papéis Especiais for its mill in Piracicaba, Brazil. With the PC4 coater, Oji


Papéis Especiais (OPE) hopes to increase thermal paper production capacity and strengthen its competitiveness globally, focusing on the Brazilian, South American and North American markets. The PC4 will increase OPE’s thermal paper production capacity by 80 per cent when it starts up next year. The 4,200mm-wide (reel) off- machine coater will produce thermal grades in the basis weight range of 44-55 g/sqm. The design speed is 1,200 m/ min.


Giovani Varella, industrial


director at Oji Papéis Especiais, said: “Valmet’s curtain coating head is a coating application system with two simultaneous coating slides without contacting the paper and an optimum coating profile, and the low-energy consuming air dryers are highly efficient. “The PC4 coater will also


have the latest technology for distributed control system, the Valmet DNA automation system, as well as Valmet’s measurement and quality control systems. This new PC4 coater machine will position OPE among the world’s largest and most modern thermal paper mills.”


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