Yuen Foong to Install New Toscotec Tissue Line at Taiwan Mill

Taiwan-based Yuen Foong Yu (YFY) will install a new Toscotec, Italy, complete tissue production line at its Ching-Shui mill in Qingshui District, a coastal suburban district in western Taichung City, Taiwan, Republic of China. The line will start up in the fourth quarter of 2015.

In April of last year YFY, Taiwan's largest paper and board producer, announced that it is poised to invest NT$ 8 billion ($268 million) to build several tissue paper machines at its mills in China and Taiwan during the next three years. This new investment is part of the company’s major expansion plans for the tissue segment.

Founded in 1924, YFY initially dealt mainly in fertilizers, sugar, and grain. Its Yuen Foong Yu Paper Manufacturing Co. was officially established on Feb. 21, 1950. Yuen Foong Yu Paper produces reading and writing, industrial, and home use paper. It is characterized by a fully integrated production chain covering upstream (forestry, pulp), midstream (paper manufacturing), and downstream (printing, packaging, and design) operations, which yield beneficial synergy effects.

Yuen Foong Yu Paper currently operates in the tissue business in China, with three mills (Yangzhou-Jangsu, Kunshan-Suzhou Jangsu, and Beijing-Mafang) having a total annual capacity of approximately 150,000 metric tpy, and in Taiwan with two mills (ChingShui and Yangmei) with a total annual capacity of approximately 74.000 metric tpy. In Taiwan, the company has around 25% of the domestic market and is looking to expand its market share to 35% in three years' time.

The Toscotec delivery, based on an intensive energy-saving concept, includes the stock preparation plant with the approach flow featuring a Toscotec technology TT SAF® water system, an AHEAD-1.5M tissue machine with a double-layer headbox, jumbo suction press TT SuctionPressRoll-SPR1425, and a Toscotec steel yankee dryer TT SYD-18FT. The supply will also include the electrification and controls package, tissue machine auxiliaries such as the steam heated hood, steam and condensate system, and dust removal system provided by Toscotec’s associate Milltech.

With a width of 3.6 meters and a design speed of 1,700 m/min, the new production line will produce 120 metric tpd of high-quality facial, toilet, and towel grade from 13.5 gsm to 23 gsm basis weight.

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