Shandong IP & Sun Starts up New Cartonboard Line in China
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 Shandong IP & Sun Food Packaging Co., China, reports that its Metso (Finland)-supplied complete cartonboard production line, PM 26, has successfully come on stream in Yanzhou City, Shandong Province, China. The grade produced during the startup was base paper for 300-gsm folding boxboard. Coated A grade was achieved in less than a week's time from the startup. In three weeks' time from the startup, the machine exceeded the dimensioning capacity over a period of 24 hr. In five weeks, another milestone, speed over design speed for 24 hr., was reached.
The new 6.85-m-wide (wire) PM 26 has an annual production capacity of approximately 550,000 metric tons of folding boxboard and art board grades in the basis weight range of 170 to 350 gsm. The design speed is 950 m/min.
Metso's delivery included a complete coated board making line from three headboxes to reel with stock preparation and approach flow systems, air systems, a coating color preparation system, and two winders. A comprehensive Metso automation package included process, machine, and quality controls.
Shandong IP & Sun Food Packaging Co. Ltd. is part of a joint venture established by International Paper and Sun Paper Group in 2006. The joint venture includes International Paper & Sun Cartonboard Co., Ltd., Shandong International Paper & Sun Coated Paperboard Co., Ltd., Shandong IP & Sun Packaging Co., Ltd. and International Paper & Sun (Hong Kong) Trading Lirnited. Today the company operates a total of four paper machines supplied by Metso (PM 17, PM 18, PM 22, PM 26). Net sales in 2011 were about EUR 650 million
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