WEPA Selects Toscotec to Upgrade Cassino Tissue Mill in Italy

Toscotec, Lucca, Italy, will conduct a major rebuild of TM 13 at WEPA’s Cassino, Italy, mill. The new project will complete the multiple steps of a mill upgrade started by Toscotec in 2010 with the rebuild of the original machine into a crescent former and continued in 2013 with the installation of a Toscotec-Milltech Yankee Hood complete with a heat recovery system, and in the summer of 2015 with the optimization of the stock preparation lines, including a Toscotec TT SAF® concept delivery.

The Cassino plant is located in the center of Italy, close to Rome. It is part of WEPA Group, a European tissue manufacture. The mill is an important and modern facility, which is completely integrated with a tissue machine, converting lines, and automatic storage system. Its capacity is more than 60.000 metric tpy. 

 

 

The new rebuild features a double layer, fully hydraulic TT Headbox-MLT, including polished pipes, a TT SYD-18FT with deckle insulation, and the yankee steam and condensate removal system. The supply will be provided on a turn-key basis, including engineering, supervision, and installation. Startup is scheduled for late summer of this year.

This investment will allow WEPA to have a state of the art machine with the best available technology. The mill will optimize the production cycle (also enlarging the trim width at the reel) and achieve a real improvement in paper quantity and quality, while decreasing energy consumption and thus the environmental impact.

The new TT SYD will be the largest steel dryer ever installed in Europe on a tissue machine. The project has been assigned to Toscotec based on the success of two new paper machines it installed at WEPA plants in Lille, France and Giershagen, Germany last year.

Toscotec is a turnkey supplier to the global tissue industry. Beginning in 1948, Toscotec has offered complete production lines, plant retrofits, turnkey projects, and individual machineries. The Group serves all of the leading paper producers with customized solutions, leveraging on the experience gained in more than 60 years of activities. Key to the Group’s success is the engineering and R&D department, run by a team of highly qualified engineers. Toscotec currently employs some 180 people.