Fresh earthquake strikes Chile
Chile has been struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in the Bio-Bio region, home to some of the country's leading pulp and paper producers....
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New on-line sensor measures formation like a papermaker
Metso has introduced a new scanning formation sensor, called Metso IQ Formation Measurement, which uses high-speed image capture and analysis technology to define small-scale sheet uniformity. Machine operators can quickly optimize sheet formation visually and meet formation index specifications to ensure customer quality is uniform while the paper machine is running...
Sona & Gruppo launched must use premium fine paper ranges
Sona Commercial jointly with their principals Gruppo Cordenons launched two premium fine paper ranges in India. The event was marked by the presence of who's who of design & print fraternity. Both the ranges are FSC certified....
Millenium Papers to Install 150 TPD Duplex Plant in Morbi
Millenium Papers Pvt Ltd is putting up a 150 TPD coated duplex board plant in Morbi, Gujarat. The project will involve a capital outlay of Rs. 30 crores (USD 6.6million) and is expected to commence production in first quarter of 2011. The paper machine is being supplied by JMC Engineers while pulp mill equipments are supplied by Parason Machinery and...
Kingston Paptech to start 120 TPD High BF Kraft Plant in Gujarat
Kingston Paptech Pvt Ltd is starting a 120 TPD multilayer high BF Kraft paper plant in Sabarkantha district in Gujarat. The 3 metre wide machine will commence production in September this year. The entire plant is being supplied by D.S. Engineers with short lip formers form Black Clawson. Setup with an investment of Rs. 28 crores (USD 6 million) the...
UMV Coating Systems to supply second INVOJET to Swedish Mill
The first INVO®Jet, installed in summer 2009, improved the overall performance in Coater station no 2 to such a degree, that Korsnäs Frövi now has ordered the second INVO®Jet to be installed in coater station no 3....
IKS Klingelnberg Group introduced the 4th generation of circular slitters
The latest high-speed paper winders running at a speed of up to 3,000 m/min allow completely new opportunities of paper (re)winding. Fitted with high quality slitter knives of the so called 1st and 2nd generation (powder steel), such machines sometimes had their limits. Significant success created the 3rd generation of powder-steel top slitter knives, produced by the IKS Klingelnberg Group,...
BTG sets new trend in ash retention measurement
The new easier, smaller, smarter, lighter optical transmitter for perfect ash and total consistency control....
Propapier starts up 650000 tonnes paper making line in Germany
The Metso-supplied papermaking line of Propapier PM2 GmbH came successfully on stream on March 15, 2010 at Propapier's greenfield mill site in Eisenhüttenstadt in Germany. The new PM 2 line will produce up to 650,000 tonnes of testliner and fluting grades annually in the basis weight range of 70-130 g/m2 out of 100%recycled fiber....
Max Fortune Industrial Ltd. To install 60,000 tonnes tissue line in China
Metso will supply a complete tissue production line to the Hong Kong-based Max Fortune Industrial Ltd. The tissue line will be installed in the company's greenfield mill near Fuzhou city, Fujian province, China. The line will be started up in March 2011....