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Italian tissue machine supplier Toscotec S.p.a. has announced  the achievement of a striking result starting up ten of its tissue machines in little more than three months. From 15 October 2012 to 31 January 2013 Toscotec has closed a tight schedule of complete TM start ups in three different continents: Africa, Europe and Asia.

Among these projects there are turnkey solutions, tissue plants equipped with AHEAD 1.5 M and MODULO Plus in Energy Saving configuration with different scopes of supply, but all including engineering and overall services for international customers as Vinda, Sipat S.A., C&S Paper and MP Hygiene.

Not only different markets, but different environments and cultures also make flexibility a prerequisite if a tissue machinery supplier such as Toscotec is to remain highly competitive.

The implementation of a reliable service structure has also contributed to the success of the Italian Company. Thanks to a worldwide structure, which include Toscotec Asia & Pacific in Shanghai and Toscotec North America in Green Bay, Toscotec has made its Service Team available to the customers for all ten tissue machines supplied with a comprehensive package of services aimed at increasing efficiency and output, including training, maintenance and process assistance.

Today Toscotec with its associate Milltech hold a leading position in fast delivery and installation combined with the state of the art technology, offering a wide range of products adapted to the constant evolution of worldwide tissue producers’ demands.

The Moroccan tissue producer Sipat has been successfully started up PM2 machine in Meknes after a major rebuilding. The Italian company Toscotec has been the supplier of the rebuilding of the existing PM2 in crescent former. The dry end of the same PM2 was rebuilt in 2009 by Toscotec too.

The Sipat TM 2 started up smoothly according to the time schedule and produced a good-quality saleable product from the very beginning.

Sipat S.A. - Societé Industrielle Des Papiers Tissues, established in 1978, is owned by the El Kendouci family. With a production capacity of 16.000 tpy, the company can satisfy the request of the Moroccan market, capable of absorbing 70% of SIPAT’s capacity, and exports the rest to other African markets. The production range includes mainly facial tissue, then toilet rolls, napkins, and kitchen towels.

Toscotec's delivery included a major rebuild of the original Toschi sloped wire forming section, which has been replaced with a  Plustype crescent former with TT HEADBOX SL-T, a rebuild of the existing approach system and of the felt run as well as YD doctoring system. Furthermore electrification and a new machine control system completed the package. The project has been handled on a turnkey basis, including dismantling of the existing equipment, installation of the new machinery, start-up assistance and training services.

The new machine parts have been designed for an operative speed up to 1300 mpm with a reel width of 2750 mm.

The purpose of the PM2 rebuilding was to meet the regional growing market demand in terms of products quality and production capacity with an increased output, as well as to reduce energy consumption.

The fast delivery and installation timing combined with very good performances of the machine few days after the start up underline once more Toscotec leadership not only in providing capital projects to the tissue industry with innovative energy-savings concept, but also in managing complex and integrated rebuilds with fast pay-back time for the final customers.

C&S Paper has brought a new 28,000 tonne/yr tissue machine on stream at its mill in Chengdu city, Sichuan province.

The PM, supplied by Toscotec, has a wire width of 3.6 m and a design speed of 1,600 m/min.

Another two identical units from the same supplier will come online soon at the firm's mill in Jiangmen city, Guangdong province.

The first of these is expected to start up in December, and the second will come online early next year.

Four more PMs to come: C&S Paper will also install four other tissue units which it aims to fire up in 2013, raising its total capacity to more than 520,000 tonnes/yr.

Two machines with a combined capacity of 59,000 tonnes/yr have been ordered from Toscotec. These will be erected at the Chengdu site, with startup scheduled for the second half of 2013.

One of the PMs will have a trim width of 3.55 m and a design speed of 1,650 m/min, and will be able to produce tissue at a rate of 32,000 tonnes/yr.

The other, with a trim width of 2.85 m and a design speed of 1,700 m/min, will have a capacity of 27,000 tonnes/yr.

SsangYong C&B Inc., a South Korean company headquartered in Jochiwon-eup, Seong ,Korea has closed the purchase of a new tissue machine with a production capacity of 91 tpd from Toscotec. The machine will be installed in Jochiwon plant and is expected to come on stream within the end of 2013.

Ssangyong C&B Inc. produces and markets paper and tissues, such as facial, bath, kitchen towels, adult diapers, and household products. The company was founded in 1980 and is owned by Mr. David Kim. Ssangyong C&B Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Monalisa Co. Ltd. Today is one of the biggest tissue producer and converter in South Korea with a strong popular brand in the country. The meaning of Ssangyong is “two dragons” while C&B states for “clean and best”

The group owns three tissue plants in different cities: one tissue production and converting plant located in Jochiwon, one tissue and converting plant situated in Jeonju and a converting plant located in Daejon.

Today the total production capacity is 130.000 tons/year, reached with seven tissue machines: four of them are located in Jochiwon plant, while three other ones are in Jeonju plant.

The new Toscotec AHEAD 1.5S tissue machine is a crescent former with single-layer headbox, double press configuration, a Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD-12FT and a Reel section TT Reel-P.

The scope of supply includes also high efficiency gas fired hood, steam & condensate system and a steam recovery boiler fed by hood exhaust air provided by Toscotec associate Milltech. A shaft puller for expandable shafts is also included in the supply.

The machine operating speed is 1700 mpm with a net web width of 2730 mm.

The project will be managed by Toscotec and Milltech including also engineering and overall services and will be focused on energy saving concepts.

Tissue and hygiene in South Korea recorded retail value growth in 2011 due to growing demand for premium products with specialized functionality, antibiotic ingredients and better quality raw materials. This rise in demand for higher priced brands boosted overall retail value growth. The new investment from SsangYong C&B Inc. with state of the art Toscotec technology will help the Company to maintain its leading position in this growing and challenging market.

Toscotec S.p.A., the market leader in the fabrication of Steel Yankee Dryers and the supplier of complete TAD and Crescent Former paper machines, has announced that Michael Drage has joined the group as Director of Business Development for North America.

Drage comes to Toscotec North America, the organization located in Green Bay (WI), with over 20 years of tissue industry experience, previously holding the position of President and COO at Fabio Perini North America. Drage will be in charge of building a sales and service organization to better serve Toscotec’s expanding business in the United States and Canada.

In addition to the tissue industry, Toscotec supplies machinery to the paper and board industry, and also the Milltech Drying and Environmental Equipments , for both tissue machine and converting applications.

On October 12, 2012, MP Hygiene started up their new Toscotec supplied complete tissue production line at their facility in Annonay, Ardeche Department on Rhone-Alps Region, France.

Due to the excellent cooperation between MP Hygiene and Toscotec the TM 1 machine started up smoothly on schedule, fifteen months after the order signature of the turn key contract.

The new Toscotec's line includes AHEAD-1.5S crescent former tissue machine with single-layer headbox, double press configuration and a Steel Yankee Dryer (TT SYD 12FT), machine auxiliaries, stock preparation plant for virgin pulp and electrification & control system.

The scope of supply includes also: a boiler plant, air compressors, turbo-blowers for vacuum production, steam generator and a cascade heat exchanger system for the hood heat recovery. A three unwind stands tissue slitter rewinder TT WIND-H and an automatic roll handling system complete the supply.

The machine design speed is 1900 mpm with a net web width of 2820 mm and with an average production of 100 tpd. The project has been fully managed by Toscotec on an EPC (Engineering Procurement and Construction) basis.

The AHEAD tissue plant concept has been developed with a great attention to the energy saving and low emission as well as to the environmental issues and the impact on the site. The new line will allow the French Company to guarantee its own requirements for the existing converting facilities.

Before the start up of the tissue machine MP Hygiene, settled in 1998, represented five industrial (AFH) divisions, with ten converting lines and three production sites over 34,000 m². Its logistics hub of 18,000 m² makes it possible to deliver all volumes of order, from one pallet to a whole truck, while continuous investment in research has opened the way for innovative products, such as DESL^® technology, which adds resistance to paper wipes, or the Evadis^® range of non-touch wiping systems.

 “One of the major reasons for choosing Toscotec - said Marc Miribel President of MP Hygiene - was their flexibility in dealing with Customers and their references worldwide in turn key solutions and energy savings concept. The great ability in managing the whole project and the very smooth start up confirmed we have done the right choice that will give us opportunity to grow successfully in our business”.

More than 300 clients gather in Lucca from all over the world

Italian paper machinery manufacturer Toscotec celebrated the sale of its 100th steel yankee dryer for tissue production with a ceremony held in its new factory unit at Marlia, Lucca last week.

It was the year 2000 when Toscotec delivered its first steel Yankee dryer – TT SYD – and in little over a decade the company has sold 100 units, establishing a firm position as the market leader for the technology. 50 different customers and 29 countries testify to this success.

Tissue analyst Esko Uutela, said in a speech during the evening that Toscotec holds more than 70 per cent of the world market for steel Yankees, a market which is set for steady growth, since the technology offers numerous advantages: most specifically safety and energy saving, both topics of the moment. In fact, more paper mills than ever have been considering the installation of the TT SYD, both for new paper machines and for retrofits, as the significant savings of this technology have gradually become more and more evident.

The celebration attracted more than 300 clients from all over the world. During the evening three companies received awards: the Italian tissue producer Eurovast, who installed the first TT SYD, the Chinese group C&S, who bought 10 steel Yankee dryers from Toscotec, and another leading Chinese group, Vinda, who signed the contract for TT SYD number 100.

The ceremony was held in a new building erected on the Toscotec production site. The new facility will be dedicated to the construction and assembly of Steel Yankees up to 22ft in diameter and 9m deckle.

One of the major Chinese tissue producers, C&S Paper, has signed up Toscotec to supply other two new tissue machines with a combined capacity of 58,000 tpy at its mills in China.

The deal was struck after C&S Paper brought on line another tissue PM, the third one in the last two years, provided by the Italian supplier at its mill in Tangshan city in China's, during the summer.

The new Toscotec machines will be installed in Chengdu mill located in Sichuan. One of the machine (AHEAD-1.5M) will have a trim width of 3550 mm, speed of 1650 mpm, steam heated hood, steel yankee dryer TT SYD-16FT and capacity of some 32.000 tpy. The second one (AHEAD-1.5S) will have a trim width of 2850 mm, speed of 1700 mpm, gas fired hood, steel yankee dryer TT SYD-12FT and capacity of some 27.000 tpy.

Toscotec’s scope of supply for both machines includes crescent former TM, machine auxiliaries, hood and dust removal system (provided by Toscotec associated Milltech), electrification and control system.

The two PMs will come online in second half of 2013, if everything goes smoothly.

C&S Paper owns six mills in China operating 80 machines, including the new Toscotec units at the Jiangmen and Tangshan sites with a total tissue capacity of approx. 350,000 tpy at the end of 2012. Three more Toscotec units will come on stream in the next months.

With these new repeated orders for one of the most important tissue producer in the Chinese developing market, Toscotec re-state its success in providing state of the art projects with a wide variety of different drying solutions for the tissue industry worldwide。

With mill closures threatened throughout China to reduce pollution, how is China's tissue industry placed to meet growing demand?

There are two faces to the Chinese paper industry. It will come as no great surprise that around half of the world's new tissue machines in 2010/11 were installed in China.
At Toscotec we have seen our installed base in China grow considerably. The state-of-the-art new machines which are announced in the media on a regular basis give an impression of an industry which is leading the world in its use of technology.

In many respects this is true. There remains however, a wide scattering of older, more polluting paper technology around the country, which the Chinese Government is

keen to retire as soon as possible. In fact an announcement at the end of last year indicated that these closures would take place at a faster pace than originally anticipated: The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) pinpointed 599 pulp and paper companies operating units which had to be closed by the end of last year.

The bulk of these machines are producing brown paper or printings/writings, but the tissue industry cannot go untouched. As far as capacity is concerned, however, the new capacity slated to come on stream should cover any loss of capacity as well as increased demand.
But the MIIT's initiative can only hasten the process of reinvention which has taken place in the Chinese tissue industry.

The strong investment push by the main tissue players in China in the last two years combined with the stricter environmental controls leaves those on the second rung of the ladder with a challenge.

If they do not invest, they will either fail to meet environmental standards and be closed down, or risk being left behind as they cease to be competitive. The smallest producers really will struggle. They simply cannot compete in terms of quality and their processes, usually based on straw, bagasse or bamboo, are just out of line with where the Chinese tissue industry is going, not to mention environmental legislation.
With this in mind, we need to realise that not all new machines in China are "new" capacity, but outdated lines, even if they are not at the same location.

What is clear is that Chinese consumers have got the taste for tissue and the country is now well on the way to having the world's most modern tissue machine "fleet". It is noticeable, however, that the very biggest, fastest machines are no longer the only thing on the menu. Producers are increasingly looking at technology which, while matching the sophistication of the biggest lines, is designed for a more modest output. Such lines, in addition to representing a smaller investment, might be more suitable to supply just the local population, without having to transport the tissue at great expense to other locations to use up the capacity. Energy consumption by the tissue machine is also an increasingly relevant consideration when tissue makers make purchasing decisions, and this is something on which we at Toscotec have focused particular attention. 

Encouraged to locate inland
Another change to watch for is the location of new tissue projects. Of course, unlike Europe, there is considerable potential for Greenfield projects in this country, but they have tended to cluster around the main cities on the coast. In an attempt to slow down the recent tendency of the Chinese to migrate to coastal cities where the standard of living is higher, new mill projects
are actively being encouraged inland in areas such as Chongqing and Sichuan. As these new mills bring quality tissue to new areas, so the market for tissue in China will gain even more momentum.

Fibre is of course an important practical consideration. The fast, wide new machines being installed in China consume virgin fibre. The infrastructure for sourcing good quality recycled fibre does not yet exist in China, and suitable stock preparation equipment to process it
has not been installed either. None of the big projects in the past two years has involved deinking. This situation clearly favours coastal mills, with their easier access to imported virgin fibre. The transport infrastructure is improving, however, which will strengthen the competitive
case for inland mills, and reduce the fibre division that has existed, whereby coastal mills have produced high quality tissue from virgin fibre, while inland mills have only produced an inferior product from straw, bamboo or bagasse.

The supply of fibre is, at present, plentiful. The pulp market is relatively soft, and large pulp mill projects are due to come on stream in the region in the not-to-distant future. There will always be a softwood pulp requirement for tissue, and local pulp projects will inevitably focus on hardwood pulp. But supply of softwood pulp has proved reliable, and the exchange rate with the Euro favours Chinese buyers at present.

The gas factor
There is another factor which divides the country in terms of tissue production. Gas is not on tap throughout China. Guangdong for example, has virtually none. Most tissue machines in the 30 to 50 tpd category in China rely on coal to generate steam. Mills on sites without access to gas have to consider their technology very carefully if they plan to step up production. Coal cannot
produce steam at as high a rate as gas, so speeds close to 1,700 mpm in rather than 2,000 mpm are realistic. At Toscotec we believe, however, that with world-class runnability this can still put a mill in a strong position, by significantly reducing production costs. Our message is that with the right technology, (we would of course advocate our energy-saving steel yankee), you can still
be competitive with coal.

The investment in state-of-the-art tissue lines means that the evolution of quality in China has been rapid. Within a short time, consumers have come to expect a quality of virgin-fibre tissue which is a match for what is sold Europe, and often better.

An everyday item
China has gained a reputation as a highly competitive place to make products. It is worth remembering, however, that this country pays energy and raw material prices at the same level as anywhere else - often more - and the main competitive advantage is the low cost of manpower. But tissue is capital-intensive to produce and as living standards improve and skills start to attract more of a premium, wage pressure will be upwards anyway. As wage cost pressures increase, producers will be ever more conscious of other burdens on company finances, such as energy. China is undoubtedly one of the most exciting places in the world to be involved in the tissue business, but as market conditions and demands evolve, the subtleties such as energy consumption will rise up the agenda, as sheer volume ceases to be the only answer.

source: http://www.toscotec.com/