The Valmet (Finland)-supplied containerboard base paper machine at Propapier GmbH in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany, has set a 24-hr. world speed record of 1,704 m/min. During the record run, the 10.85 meter-wide PM 2 produced corrugating medium at a basis weight of 70 gsm with a total efficiency of 96%. The Propapier PM 2 was originally started up in March 2010.  

 

This was already the fourth 24-hr. world speed record set by Propapier PM 2. On November 25, 2010, the machine set a record of 1,620 m/min at a basis weight of 90 gsm, becoming the world's first containerboard machine to exceed the 1,600 m/min speed level. The next world record followed in April 2011 when the machine reached a speed of 1,650 m/min at a basis weight of 80 gsm. On Feb. 23, 2012, the machine set yet another 24-hr. world speed record of 1,675 m/min at a basis weight of 80 gsm, thus breaking the 100 km/hr. milestone.

 

"Our PM2 has now produced four consecutive world records. This is a proof that our people and the technology fit together in an optimal way, because being successful once or a few times might be by accident or good luck, but being successful over and over again requires true competence and diligent work. I am confident that this was not our last world record," said Jürgen Heindl, CEO of Progroup AG.

 

PM 2 is an OptiConcept paper machine featuring Valmet's papermaking technology from the stock preparation plant all the way through the paper machine. The design speed of the machine is 1,900 m/min. 

In the photo, the trophy was handed over to Peter Resvanis (on the right) and some of his team members by Jürgen Heindl, CEO of Progroup AG (second from the left), and Robert Mohr, VP, sales, Central Europe North, Valmet (third from the left).