Tamil Nadu to Install Voith Board Machine at New Mill in India
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In the photo, representatives from TNPL and Voith at the signing ceremony (l-r) are: A. Velliangiri, Dy. managing director and C.V. Sankar, chairman and managing director from TNPL; A. Endters, president of Voith Paper Projects, and R. Krishna Kumar, president of Voith Paper India.
BM 4 is designed to produce coated board varieties such as folding box board, white lined chipboard, and solid bleached sulfate grades in a basis weight range of 180–450 gsm, on a wire width of 4,300 mm and at a speed of 600 m/min. The range of raw materials used will be very large: bagasse and wood pulp, DIP, OCC, and TMP.
Included in the delivery is the approach flow system, broke treatment, the entire board machine with a DuoFormer D for the best formation and dewatering performance in the four-layer wire section, and a Tandem NipcoFlex shoe press. A SpeedFlow film press, a hot hard nip EcoCal calender, and a complete coating section and coating color kitchen are available for surface finishing the board. The machine is also equipped with a MasterReel winding system and a VariFlex winder. Also included in the delivery are complete automation, machine clothing, auxiliary sections and services relating to assembly monitoring, startup, and training.
Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers is an Indian paper producer headquartered at Chennai. The company was founded in the 1980s by the government of the Tamil Nadu state. It has so far mainly produced writing and copy paper, exporting around 20% of its products to more than 50 countries.
