Lee & Man Starts New Tissue Machine in Jiangxi, China

Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing started trial runs on a new 60,000-tonne/yr tissue machine in May at its mill in Jiujiang city, in the inland province of Jiangxi, China.

Supplied by Voith, the unit is dubbed TM 9. It has a trim width of 5.6 m and a design speed of 2,000 m/min. It is the first tissue unit to have come on stream at the site. An identical machine, dubbed TM 10, is gearing up for startup there next month.

The Hong Kong-listed company also runs eight tissue paper production lines with a combined capacity of 390,000 tonnes/yr at its facility in Chongqing municipality, southwestern China.

According to the updated tissue expansion plan, it will commission a total of six TMs in 2017. Apart from the two at Jiujiang mill, the company is erecting a pair of Voith-supplied 60,000 tonne/yr units at the company’s Hongmei plant in Dongguan city, Guangdong province. They are expected to commence production by the end of the year, a company source told PPI Asia.

Two 60,000 tonne/yr, 5.6 m wide TMs, provided by Valmet, are under construction at the Chongqing mill.

The total tissue capacity of the company will be boosted to 750,000 tonnes/yr when all the new lines are fired up.