Over the Wire - Tissue Edition

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Goldenrod Corp.
Issue Spotlight
New study by SCA shows a surprising number of Americans have used their workplace restrooms for more than they were intended.

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Peer-reviewed program will address practical and technical techniques to design better products and help tissue mills operate more efficiently.

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Attendees will learn the most important industry-accepted best practices that improve overall tissue machine efficiency.

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Introductory course provides a great foundation for anyone new to the tissue or converting industry.

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Naylor Association Solutions
Market Roundup

According to the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ), Seattle, Wash., USA, global pulp market data for the third quarter of this year show that the hardwood pulp (BHKP—bleached hardwood kraft pulp) market has been somewhat stronger than the softwood pulp (NBSK—northern bleached softwood kraft) market during the second half of 2014.
 
Hardwood pulp prices, WRQ notes, have been in steady decline for more than a year, but have flattened out the past few months. There are signs that the bottom in pricing might have been reached, it adds.
 
In the global biomass markets arena, pellet shipments from the U.S. and Canada to Europe have gone in opposite directions during the first nine months of 2014, WRQ reports, with shipments from the U.S. South being up almost 50%, while Canadian volumes declining 5% during the same period. South Korea’s demand for pellets has increased substantially in 2014. During the first 10 months, importation of wood pellets was five times higher than in 2013, reaching almost 1.5 million tons.
 
Pellet prices were lower in all the three major markets in Europe this fall compared with a year ago, and the expectations are for only modest price increases in the coming months.
 
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Increase would bring company's bleached eucalyptus pulp list prices to $860 in North America, $770 in Europe, and $660 in Asia

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Company reduces prices for pine and softwood sawlogs by SEK 20 per cubic meter, solid under bark (m³fub).

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Tissue/Toweling Industry News
Project creates one of the world’s largest rooftop solar installations, with panels covering some 300,000 sq. meters.

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PM 2 is a wet crepe tissue machine that will produce 55,000 tpy of napkin and toweling grades for the away from home market.

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Acquisition will be completed for a total purchase price of ZAR 1.6 billion (approximately $143 million).

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Lock Haven, Pa., USA, facility will house second TAD machine, with the startup date expected to be December 2016.

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Company's line of certified products will include paper towels, paper napkins, bathroom tissue, and facial tissue.

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Company has invested $40 million for new Recard (Italy) tissue line, enabling it to increase tissue production to 42,000 metric tpy.

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Company has successfully brought online a new PMP, Poland, Intelli-Tissue 1200 EcoEc machine at its mill in the Henan Province of China.

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New Advantage DCT 200HS tissue line will be installed at the company's mill in Kostrzyn, Poland, and will fit ICT's intention to adopt state of the art technology for its tissue production.

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State-of-the art additions include a co-generation plant, improvement of waste water quality, and introduction of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs).

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Absorption Express, tested in full commercial scale at a number of mills, is a high yield pulp designed to replace much more expensive pulp in the production of tissue.

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The first installation of Valmet's (Finland) new Advantage ReTurne energy recovery system was recently started up at Sofidel's mill Delicarta Valdottavo in Italy and proved to meet all expectations when it was tested this past week. The Advantage ReTurne system not only recovers energy from the headbox jet power, but also returns it back to the process as electrical energy.
 
"The first installation of the Advantage ReTurne energy saving system has been a positive experience for us. Its energy saving capabilities turned out to be better than we hoped for and well in line with our target to further reduce our carbon dioxide emissions before the end of 2020," said Simone Capuano, vice chief technical officer, Sofidel.
 
"We had high expectations of the results from the first installation of the Advantage ReTurne system, which were substantially exceeded. The installation went smoothly and the machine was running at full speed within five days. But most exiting was that the energy recovery proved to be above guaranteed levels," said Jan Erikson, VP sales, Valmet.
 
The Advantage ReTurne energy recovery system is installed in the forming section. It is unique in the sense that it recovers 50% of the energy from the headbox drainage water and via a generator converts it to electrical power, which supplies the sectional drives. The system does not affect the formation of the paper or the tissue making process. It is easy to handle and has low maintenance needs, and is efficient installed in new or existing tissue machines.

The Sofidel Group is currently the second largest European producer of tissue paper (for sanitary and domestic use) and the sixth largest in the world. It was founded more than 45 years ago (1966) and today boasts 27 subsidiaries in 13 countries –Italy, Spain, Sweden, the U.K., Belgium, France, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Greece, Turkey, and the U.S. It has about 5,000 employees and a consolidated turnover of EUR 1,699 million (2013) and a capacity of more than 1 million metric tpy.

 
At the heart of the new venture is a GapCon EconSOFTTM tissue machine with a 70 metric tpd capacity, boasting an operating speed of 1,500 m/min., and a trim width of 2,750 mm.

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HuySpeed QS is designed specifically to reduce the startup cycle on new felts and to provide more efficient overall production on high speed tissue machines.

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New Technologies
Product functions by interfering with the chemical reaction that releases smell by blocking and then deactivating the catalysts of the reaction.

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New system offers simplified installation method, closure coupling design that allows conformance to ASME B31.3 test inspection requirements, and a 3D thermal expansion compensation feature.

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Yankee Dryer Safety and Reliability Committee
Committee is working on several Technical Information Papers (TIPS) to help yankee owner/users:

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Festo Corp
Xerium Technologies, Inc.