MP Hygiene to Begin Tissue Production in France with New Toscotec Line

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MP Hygiene, located in the Annonay Ardeche Department of Rhone-Alps Region, France, has purchased a new tissue line with an average production of 100 metric tpd from Toscotec, Italy. The state of the art line will allow MP Hygiene to fulfil the needs of its existing converting facilities. The machine is expected to come on-stream in the first quarter of 2013.

The new Toscotec’s line includes an AHEAD 1.5S crescent former tissue machine with a single-layer headbox, double press configuration, a Steel Yankee Dryer (TT SYD 12FT), machine auxiliaries, stock preparation plant for virgin pulp, and the electrification and control system. The scope of supply also includes a boiler plant, air compressors, turboblowers for vacuum production, steam generator, and a cascade heat exchanger system for the hood heat recovery. A three-unwind-stand tissue slitter rewinder TT WIND-H and an automatic roll handling system complete the supply.

The machine design speed is 1,900 m/min with a net web width of 2,820 mm. The greenfield project will be focused on energy savings and low emission concepts, with great attention to the environmental issues as well as to the impact on the site. It will be managed by Toscotec on an EPC (engineering and procurement) basis.

MP hygiene has a diversified range of cleaning products, from paper wipes to textiles, nonwovens, and hand-cleaning lotions and foams. It primarily manufactures and sells paper refills on the professional market, round products such as hand towels rolls, industrial rolls or toilet paper, and flat products such as W or Z fold towels. Today the company has five industrial divisions with ten converting lines and three production sites with more than 34,000 cubic meters.