Shandong Chenming to Relcoate, Rebuild Paper Machine for Increased Production

Chenming Jilin, part of Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Ltd., China, has contracted Metso, Finland, to relocate and rebuild a paper machine for the company's new mill site in Jilin Province, China. The value of the order will not be disclosed. However, a typical market value of this type of a relocation and rebuild project ranges from EUR 10 to 20 million, Metso notes.

"The main target of the project is to increase production by improving the efficiency of the papermaking line and by increasing the drying capacity of the paper machine," says Jukka Vuorela, Metso's sales manager.

The PM 12 paper machine to be relocated to the company's new mill site in Jilin City is currently at its Chenming Jilin mill site. Metso will supervise the dismantling and packing of the paper machine line and supervise the installation and startup of the relocated equipment. Metso's will also rebuild the relocated PM 12. Startup of the relocated and rebuilt machine is scheduled for the second half of 2013.

PM 12 is a 6.95-meter-wide (wire) machine. The modernization will include forming and drying section modifications and a press section rebuild with a new SymBelt shoe press. Originally PM 12 produced coated wood-containing LWC (lightweight coated) paper grades and after the rebuild will produce other paper grades as well..

Chenming Jilin is part of Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Limited, one of the biggest paper producers in China. In 2010, the company's paper production capacity was more than 4 million metric tpy. It had a turnover of EUR 2 billion and employed some 17,000 people.

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