Siam Cellulose's Ban Pong Mill to Install New Valmet Pulp Cooking Plant

Valmet, Finland, will deliver a pulp cooking plant to Siam Cellulose Co.’s Ban Pong pulp mill in Ratchaburi, Thailand. The mill will produce 70,000 metric tpy of eucalyptus pulp. Startup of the new cooking plant is scheduled for December 2016. The value of the order was not disclosed.

"This will be our third cooking system from Valmet in five years, and after this Ban Pong installation, all of our pulp production units in Thailand will have the same CompactCooking G2 system. The efficient utilization of raw material is vital from a sustainability perspective and the pulp properties are excellent for our paper and packaging products," said Surasak Amawat, managing director at Siam Cellulose Co.

"We are very pleased to continue our successful cooperation with Siam Cellulose. The new cooking plant will replace the existing tube digesters and will utilize the raw material more efficiently, improve pulp quality, save chemicals, and all-in-all improve the environmental performance of the mill," said Patrik Lidbäck, sales manager at Valmet.

The two-vessel CompactCooking G2 system has several benefits. It mainly consists of an ImpBin for impregnation and a digester for cooking of chips and is characterized by its simple, yet sophisticated design—a flexible system that is easy to operate. The ImpBin technology, with its unique features, enables higher kappa level with low reject content. Using a two-vessel design ensures well defined impregnation as well as cooking zones. Effective impregnation in combination with the benefits of the CompactCooking process produce pulps with high yield and excellent pulp quality.

This is the third CompactCooking system delivered to Siam Cellulose's mills in Thailand.

 

Siam Cellulose is a subsidiary of SCG Packaging and a leading producer of eucalyptus based pulp. SCG Packaging is the largest integrated paper and corrugated containers producer in ASEAN.