Hamburger Containerboard to Start Up New Containerboard Machine in September
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Hamburger Containerboard said that it has rescheduled the start-up of its new containerboard machine, PM2, at its mill in Spremberg, Germany, for the first week of September.
PM 2 was originally scheduled to start-up this summer, but the decision to push the timeline back was made following impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic as well as a recent fire on the building site.
As reported two weeks ago, a fire broke out in the stock preparation area during welding. No one was injured due to the fast intervention of the LEAG fire brigade. The damage has now been estimated at several million euros as some of the wastepaper processing machinery needs complete replacement.
Hamburger Containerboard and its suppliers are now working on a quick solution in order to start operation as early as possible.
PM 2 Project
In March of 2018, Hamburger Containerboard started construction of the Spremberg mill's second paper machine, PM2. The EUR 370 million project includes the new machine, which has a width of 7.80 metres and the capacity to produce 500,000 tonnes per year of white and brown corrugated base papers (testliner) based on 100% recycled paper.
Deinking equipment is also included in the project.
