A signing ceremony was recently held to mark Sun Paper’s (China) order of two new XcelLine papermaking production lines from Voith, Germany. The orders are for PM 36 production line with an annual production of 400,000 metric tons of low-grammage high-grade testliner and PM 37 production line with an annual production of 300,000 metric tons of high-quality corrugating medium paper.

 

 

In the signing ceremony photo above (front row, l-r) are Dr. Michael Trefz, SVP, Project Sales, Voith Paper;  Thomas Holzer, president of Voith Paper Asia; Ying Guangdong, deputy general manager and chief engineer at Sun Paper; and Fu Guoling, director of the Sun Paper Packaging Paper Division. 

The design speed of the two paper machines is 1,200 m/min., with a working width of 6,660 mm at the reel. The two production lines will be built as part of the second phase of the Zoucheng Papermaking Industry Park, with foundation work planned to begin in May 2017 and startup scheduled for July and September 2018. 

The machines are based on the PM 31 and PM 32 paper machines of 2016. The resulting paper offers low basis weight, high ring crush strength, high strength, and good folding resistance. It also saves resources, and reduces packing costs and carbon emissions. These products are already widely used in domestic and overseas medium-quality and premium product packaging markets.

Voith is now deepening the implementation of its new "Papermaking. Next Level" concept of product transformation, to improve efficiency, increase production, ensure quality, and create more intelligent, cost effective and sustainable industrial processes throughout the entire papermaking chain.

Sun Paper was established in 1982 and is now a multinational papermaking group operating worldwide, specializing in forestry-pulp and paper integration, and playing a leading role in the Chinese paper industry. With total assets of 29.2 billion yuan and more than 10,000 employees, the annual pulp and paper production capacity of Sun Paper is 5.7 million metric tons. Sun Paper ranks 312th in China's top 500 enterprises and ranks 48th in the world's top 100 papermaking enterprises.