GAW Paper Coating Systems, USA, reports that it has received an order from Voith, Germany, for the complete wet end chemicals system, coating kitchen, and working stations for the new BM 4 at Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers, India (TNPL). This is the second major order for GAW at TNPL mill sites, the first being PM 3 (Karur District) including coating kitchen and chemical preparation system from GAW that went into operation in 2010.
The new greenfield mill will be erected at a new location (TNPL - Unit II) in Tiruchirappalli District, approximately 100 km from the existing plant. The BM 4 will be 3,750 mm wide, with a speed of 600 m/min and will produce about 200,000 metric tons of coated board varieties (folding boxboard, white lined chipboard, solid bleached sulfate grades). A wide range of raw materials will be used, for example bagasse, wood pulp, deinking pulp, old corrugated containers, and thermochemical pulp.
The machine will be equipped with a Speed Flow Coater, sizing application 2 gsm/side; Dyna Coat for pre-coat - application 12 gsm; Dyna Coat back coat - coating application 10 gsm; sizing application 2 gsm; and Dyna Coat top coat - application 12 gsm. GAW will supply the coating color kitchen as well as the wet end chemicals system.
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