Stora Enso has contracted FMW Industries, Australia, to supply four fully automated bale handling systems for its Oulu, Finland, site. The total capacity of systems to be supplied shall amount to 2,700 TPD of virgin fiber bales.
Jun 7, 2023
Stora Enso commissions FMW Industries, Australia, to supply four complete, fully automated bale handling systems for the largest board machine housed at its Oulu, Finland, site.
FMW Industries will supply four fully automatic pulper feeding lines with a total capacity of 2,700 TPD of virgin fiber bales. Three production lines are designed for processing so-called jumbo bales with a total capacity of 123 bales per hour. The fourth line is directed at the preparation and processing of so-called export bales or market pulp. This can be adapted for a capacity of 220 bales per hour in the future.
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Stora Enso is converting its existing paper machine at the Oulu site from coated graphic papers to the production of high-quality coated primary fiber-based boards. The plant shall be one of the largest of its kind in Europe as a production volume of 750,000 TPA is being planned.
In order to make the recycling of the wire coils from the eight dewiring machines as efficient as possible, they are collected by a fully automatic magnetic conveyor belt system and transported to a collection container.
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FMW Industries commented on LinkedIn, “We are very pleased that Stora Enso, a leading supplier of renewable products in packaging, biomaterials, wooden construction, and paper and one of the largest private forest owners in the world, has once again chosen our solution. The order further expands our existing partnership and reinforces the successful commissioning of a similar plant in 2022.”
