West Coast Paper Mills, Bangalore, India, reported this week that it has completed an expansion program at its Dandeli mill in Karnataka, India, involving a capital outlay of about Rs.1375 crores (some $305 million). The expansion raises the company's paper production capacity from 180,000 metric tpy to 320,000 metric tpy and boosts its thermal power generation capacity from 40.3 MW to 70.3 MW.
The expansion included a new 725 metric tpd pulp line, an upgrade to the chemical recovery operations and the power plant, and a new paper machine. The new pulp line project included a wood chipper, chip screen, chip silo, modified batch cooking system, brown stock washing and screening, an oxygen delignification stage, and an ECF bleach plant with chlorine dioxide generation. The new paper machine (details not available) included continuous stock preparation, head box to pope reel rewinder QCS & DCS systems, and converting equipment. The company began producing ECF bleached pulp in mid-February, at which time the mill's existing fiber line was shutdown
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