The new Toscotec machines will be installed at the Chengdu mill at Sichuan. One of the machines (AHEAD-1.5M) will have a trim width of 3,550 mm, a speed of 1,650 meters/min, a steam heated hood, a steel yankee dryer TT SYD-16FT, and a production capacity of some 32,000 metric tpy. The second machine (AHEAD-1.5S) will have a trim width of 2,850 mm, a speed of 1,700 meters/min, a gas fired hood, a steel yankee dryer TT SYD-12FT, and a production capacity of some 27,000 metric tpy.
Toscotec's scope of supply for both machines includes a crescent former TM, machine auxiliaries, the hood, and dust removal system (provided by Toscotec associated Milltech), electrification, and the control system.
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 approximately 350,000 metric tpy at the end of 2012. Three more Toscotec units will come on-stream in the next months.
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