Sun Paper Orders Systems for New Kraft Pulp Mill in Laos

Sun Paper Holding Lao Co., China, has ordered form Andritz, Graz, Austria, major equipment for a new kraft pulp mill with a production capacity of 300,000 metric tpy in Muang Phin, Laos. Startup is scheduled for late 2012.

The Andritz scope of supply includes equipment for chip and bark handling, a complete fiberline (continuous cooking, washing, oxygen delignification, screening, and bleaching), the pulp drying line (wet end, dryer, cutter/layboy, and baling line), and the white liquor plant including kiln and recausticizing equipment. The kiln will be equipped with LimeFlash technology.

Sun Paper Holding Lao is member of the Sun Paper Group, China's largest privately owned and managed paper business, and the largest producer of premium coated packaging board in China.

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