MAXI Chooses Recard to Supply a Complete New Tissue Production Plant

Earlier this year, Recard S.p.A. signed a contract with the Greek company MAXI S.A. for the supply of a second complete turnkey plant for the production of tissue paper. Installation and startup are scheduled for 2021. For MAXI this will be PM 2, but for the owners of MAXI this is the third plant ordered from Recard (the first was Papyros PM 1, installed in 2006), as they were the founders and previously main shareholders of Papyros Paper Mill, which now belongs to an international group.

The signing of the contract. From left: Spyros Deliadis, Recard area agent; William Papadopoulos, chairman of the board and CEO MAXI SA; Silvio Renieri, shareholder of Recard S.P.A.

Speaking about the project, the chairman of the board and CEO, William Papadopoulos, said: “Following the recent completion of a new investment in tissue roll converting with the installation of a new Perini line for consumer products, MAXI has ordered a complete new tissue plant from Recard, the supplier that already delivered two successful turnkey plants in Katerini in 2006 and 2010 and that we are willing to entrust again with this milestone project.”

The new production line will be installed at the Katerini factory, where MAXI PM 1 built by Recard has already been in production for some years.

The new turnkey plant includes a crescent former tissue machine which will produce 115 mtpd and reach a speed of 1,850 m/min. With this new production plant, the Greek company will increase its total production from the current 28,000 mtpy to approximately 68,000 mtpy.

The turnkey plant includes three stock preparation lines for long and short fiber and broke/rejects from the converting area.

The delivery scope also covers all machine auxiliaries, including the latest generation of recovery boiler and a top performance 4-ply hydraulic rewinder.

In terms of services Recard will be responsible for all plant engineering, project management, goods transportation till mill site, full mechanical and electrical installation, plant commissioning, machine start up and post startup “baby sitting”.

MAXI S.A. was founded in 1988 as a commercial business for the sale of sanitary household products.

Three years later, in 1991, the small scale production of toilet paper, kitchen towel and napkins began with a work force of eight employees in a factory located at the 1st km of the old Katerini–Thessaloniki motorway, where it remains until today.

MAXI is now a leading force in paper production and converting, running several high speed lines and producing a great variety of tissue products.

With customer satisfaction as a priority, the company continues to develop a wide variety of prime quality products, investing in a highly trained workforce and state-of-the-art machinery.

The second Recard tissue plant in operation at MAXI

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