Minerals Technologies Inc., New York, N.Y., has successfully started a new satellite plant to produce its breakthrough NewYieldTM Integrated Process Technology for the Sun Paper Group's pulp and paper operations in Shandong Province, China.

 

"We are extremely pleased to have our new satellite plant at Sun Paper up and running and producing a useable papermaking filler that provides Sun with both cost savings and reduced environmental impact, while at the same time providing them with a filler pigment for their paper," said Joseph C. Muscari, chairman and CEO. "The successful commissioning of this plant now sets the stage for MTI to roll out this new technology to other papermakers."

NewYield is an innovative technology that converts a paper and pulp mill waste stream into a functional pigment for filling paper. NewYield technology eliminates the cost of environmental disposal and remediation of certain waste streams to papermakers. The facility will produce 60,000 metric tons of filler pigment from Sun's waste stream.

By using the new technology, papermakers can eliminate the costs associated with landfill disposal or energy, and in return will receive a functional paper-filling pigment. MTI and the papermaker will both benefit, as will the environment.