Lee & Man Starts 60,000-Tonne/yr Tissue PM in Dongguan, China

Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has fired up a new 60,000 tonne/yr tissue PM at its Hongmei mill in Dongguan city, Guangdong province, China.

Dubbed TM 12, the Voith-supplied unit churned out its first sheet of paper in late December. It is the second tissue PM at the site. An identical one came online there about a month ago. Each of them has a trim width of 5.6 m and a design speed of 2,000 m/min. Their startups have boosted Lee & Man’s total tissue capacity to 630,000 metric tpy.

The company is constructing four new 60,000-metric tpy tissue machines at its Chongqing mill in southwestern China. They are expected to come on stream one after another in the first four months of this year.