Greenfield Tissue Mill Starts up near Mexico City

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The Metso-supplied tissue making line of SCA in Mexico has come successfully on-stream at the company’s greenfield mill site in Ciudad Sahagún, Hidalgo State, near Mexico City. The new PM 1 line has an annual production capacity of 60,000 metric tons of high-quality facial, toilet, and towel grades.

Metso’s scope of delivery included a complete turn-key tissue production line fully engineered and optimized with regard to energy savings, production efficiency, and quality. The scope of supply included a tissue machine, deinking plant, effluent plant, stock preparation system, a mill-wide automation package, and also all other auxiliary equipment and systems needed for the mill. Transport, installation, training, startup, and commissioning were also included in the delivery. Civil engineering and building construction were handled by SCA.

"The tissue machine startup went very smoothly," said James Haeffele, VP, Tissue Technology for SCA North America and project director for the Sahagún greenfield tissue mill project.