Jarkko L. Mattila, and Roger Ekstrom, Global Product Managers, ABB System Drives explain why liquid-cooled drives are the ideal solution for challenging pulp and paper environments. The pulp and paper industry has long used variable speed drives (VSDs) to achieve greater energy efficiency and precise motor control. However, some places within a mill present challenges […]
Tag Archives: tissue machine
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Sep
Sep
Sofidel announced that it is investing $185 million to increase production capacity at its tissue mill in Circleville, Ohio. The project involves the construction of a new building that will house a new Valmet DCT 200 tissue machine. The new machine will have the capacity to produce 70,000 metric tons per year. The Circleville plant, […]
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Velvet Care to halve tissue factory’s carbon footprint with PLN 63 million heat and power plant
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Aug
Aug
Velvet CARE, the consumer tissue producer owned by ESG transformation specialist private equity fund Abris Capital Partners, will slash its CO2 emissions by 46% with an investment of PLN 63 million ($15 million) in a gas-fired combined heat and power plant (CHP). Central Europe’s fastest-growing consumer tissue maker will build the cogeneration unit at its […]
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Aug
Aug
Valmet will supply an Advantage DCT 100TS tissue production line to Papel San Francisco in Mexico. The new TM 10 machine will be installed at the company’s mill in Mexicali and the start-up is planned for the second quarter 2025. Valmet’s scope of delivery will comprise an Advantage DCT 100TS tissue machine. The machine will […]
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Mar
Mar
ProJet received an order for a Wet End Tail Cutter for the new Tissue line at XuanMai, PM4, China. The Tail Cutter will be incorporated in a new Tissue machine. The order was included in ProJet’s first quarter 2023 orders received. The Tail Cutter will be incorporated in XuanMai’s new Tissue machine. The order was […]
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Dec
Dec
Toscotec will supply a complete AHEAD 1.8 tissue machine to Gayatrishakti Tissue to be installed at their paper mill in Vapi, Gujarat. The Indian manufacturer is entering the tissue market with this new line slated for start-up in 2024. The AHEAD 1.8 tissue machine has sheet trim width of 2,850 mm, an operating speed of 1,800 m/min, […]
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Dec
Dec
Andritz has received an order from Xuan Mai Paper Co. Ltd. to supply a PrimeLineCOMPACT S1800 tissue machine for its production line PM2 at its mill located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The tissue machine will enable the production of high-quality tissue grades made of either 100% virgin or 100% deinked pulp (DIP). Start-up […]
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Oct
Oct
Cascades said that it is temporarily shutting down one of its two tissue paper machines at its St. Helens, Oregon facility due to structural issues of the building housing the machine. In a press release, Cascades said, “Following inspections carried out as part of its annual maintenance shutdown which began on September 11, it was […]
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Aug
Aug
New contract Austria’s Andritz, provider of technology and solutions for various industries including the pulp and paper sector, has received an order to supply a PrimeLine COMPACT M1600 tissue production line (PM10) to a mill located in Chingshui, Taiwan, operated by local company Yuen Foong Yu Consumer Products. The new machine’s start-up is scheduled for […]
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Jun
Jun
Saudi Paper Group (SPG) and Toscotec have signed an Agreement of Understanding for the supply of a new tissue line to be installed at SPG’s paper mill in Dammam second industrial city, Saudi Arabia. Designed for excellent performance and superior efficiency, the tissue machine will produce 60,000 tonnes/yr of premium quality tissue, bringing SPG’s total […]