Joaquim Belfo, Mill Manager BU Tissue VVR and Pedro Antunes, Tissue Production Manager, shared their views on the efficiently integrated industrial unit at Vila Velha De Ródão and the cooperation with Toscotec, the mill’s tissue manufacturing turnkey supplier.
Maintenance managers and supervisors in a tissue mill are required to work to budget and cut the costs of maintenance wherever possible. An efficient management of rolls maintenance, of press rolls in particular, significantly contributes to reducing costs and the risk of emergency stops.
Toscotec pioneered the manufacture of steel dryer cans in the 1960s, at a time when cast iron dryers still held a dominant market position. After many years of struggle between the steel and cast iron theories, Toscotec’s concept is now winning and it is being selected for many dryer section rebuilds around the globe. Toscotec Paper & Board division Head of Sales Enrico Fazio explains how and why.
Papelera del Plata, part of CMPC Tissue Latam group, fired up a TT SYD-12FT supplied by Toscotec. The new TT SYD is installed on PM3 at Papelera del Plata - Zarate mill in Argentina.
I recently spoke with Garth Towell, Chief Executive Officer of the Twinsaver Group, Anna Marie Viljoen, Product Supply Director and Tony Hulme, General Manager for Operations, about South Africa’s leading tissue producer, the Twinsaver Group, and the key to its success.
Toscotec has been awarded a contract by Smurfit Kappa Cellulose du Pin in France to rebuild the entire dryer section of its 6m wire PM5 at Facture, Aquitaine, France.
Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has begun using four AHEAD-2.0L PRODERGY tissue machines at its OKI mill, in South Sumatra, Indonesia, as part of a series of AHEAD-2.0L PRODERGY tissue machines.
