C&S Paper Starts up Two New Tissue Machines in China

C&S Paper, China, has brought two new 28,000 metric tpy tissue machines online at its mill in Jiangmen city, Guangdong province. The identical units, supplied by Toscotec, Italy, have a wire width of 3.6 meters and a design speed of 1,600 meters per minute.

C&S Paper has the construction of four more tissue machines well underway, with startup planned for later this year. These new machines will boost the company’s total tissue capacity to around 520,000 metric tpy. Two machines with a combined capacity of around 59,000 metric tpy will begin production in the second half of 2013 at the C&S Paper site in Chengdu city, Sichuan province. One will have a trim width of 3.55 meters, and a design speed of 1,650 meters per minute. It will produce tissue at a rate of 32,000 metric tpy. The other one will have a trim width of 2.85 meters and a design speed of 1,700 meters per minute. Its capacity will be around 27,000 metric tpy.

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