2 British Paper Machinery News Editorial Comment


Our sympathies go out to earthquake victims … the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria that devastated vast areas in early February and claimed more than 50,000 victims has also had an impact on their paper industry. Two mills at the epicentre are now at a standstill and it is understood that other mills in the area could be affected although this remains to be confirmed. One tissue mill has been closed for some time but is now running again. BPMSA member companies send condolences to all affected and remain ready to assist with rebuilding machinery in any way they can.


Big changes coming to packaging … new packaging regulations to take effect from 2025 were announced by the EU this January and will require all packaging used in the bloc to be recyclable by 2030. The new legislation replaces the original 1994 regulations and will introduce a single recycling labelling system, recycled content targets for plastic packaging and require fresh food produce labels to be biodegradable. All packaging will have to undergo an assessment to ensure correct design for recycling and graded A to E. Those in grade E will be banned from the common market from 2030 with grades A to D being subject to extended producer responsibility fees to provide a financial incentive to produce easily recyclable packaging. Manufacturers exporting to Europe will also have to comply with the new


regulations, and UK


businesses with sales greater than


£1M producing packaging or package goods have been required to collect packaging data from the start of this year and pay an annual fee to the UK’s environmental regulator from 2024.


Cont@ct the BPMSA


Intergraf, the trade association promoting and protecting the interest of the graphics industry, said this is a major step forward in creating a more sustainable packaging industry in Europe. It will have a significant impact on the printing and packaging industry which will need to find new and innovative ways to reduce waste and increase recycling. Whilst is had been forecast that an increase in packaging waste of around 19% would take place by 2030 the new regulations are expected to nullify this and the EU said it expected the packaging sector would reach climate neutrality by 2050.


BBC tackles


greenwashing too … following claims from a toilet paper company that switching to their products would save trees as ‘15% of global deforestation was caused by toilet rolls alone’, the subject was aired on the BBC Radio


4 programme ‘More or Less’. The programme effectively highlighted the greenwashing problem and the importance of wood pulp products certification but was unable to confirm accurately the amount of trees used annually to produce the world’s supply of toilet tissue.


Our friends at Two Sides


(www.twosides.info) investigated further but could find no evidence to back-up the suggested figure. Working through the statistics from the Confederation of European Paper Industries (www.cepi.org) Two Sides found that in reality between 0.6-1.3% of the total global wood harvest is used for making toilet paper, nowhere near the figure used by the toilet paper company. Two Sides contacted the BBC with the true figure and also reminded them that the word


T: +44 (0)1438 832742


deforestation when attached to paper production can be misleading as all trees used for papermaking are replanted and European forests grew at the rate of 1500 football pitches every day between 2005 and 2015. Out of all the paper used in Europe, 74% is recycled with 83% of paper packaging alone also recycled. The toilet paper manufacturing company has now stopped using the misleading 15%


figure in its marketing programme - a further success for Two Sides Anti-Greenwashing Campaign.


Rod Lomax Editor


British Paper Machinery News rod@rodlomaxpublicity.com


New mill well into construction phase


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almsleys Limited has just completed stage 1 engineering for a new


greenfield paper mill in Europe. The new installation uses some sections from an existing donor paper machine, which has been relocated and is now being re-configured to produce a different grade at the customer’s required tonnes per day.


Work completed so far includes: • Paper machine elevation and gauges (donor machine re- configured)


• Detailed design of additional equipment to re-configure the machine


• Machine track loadings and baseplate design


• Machine hall and crane requirements


• Major tank and pump sizing • Basement layouts for tanks, pump, drains and large bore piping


E: info@bpmsa.co.uk


New greenfield mill in Europe expected to complete in 2025


• Complete site layout • Process and instrumentation drawings


• Functional descriptions of major systems


• Civil engineering liaison • Dryer section hood extension


With the above information the customer is already well into the construction phase of the new mill with completion expected in 2025. The next phase of the project will begin shortly and will include the supply of additional machine equipment and machine track baseplates, an additional dryer section plus the design and supply of a stock preparation system.


Walmsleys Limited Craig Frankowski


+44(0)1254 830486 +44(0)1254 832181 sales@walmsleys-uk.com www.walmsleys-uk.com


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