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Smooth startup at Klabin - The world's largest single-line eucalyptus debarking system went into action at Klabin's Monte Alegre plant, Brazil

Metso Paper was chosen to supply a new wood handling system for Klabin's MA-1100 project to raise the production capacity of packaging grades up to 1.1 million tonnes/yr at the Monte Alegre mill in Telêmaco Borba in Paraná state, Brazil. The best available technology was chosen for this... Read More

Billerud restarts machine in Sweden

BRUSSELS, May 16, 2008 (RISI) - Billerud has restarted the overhauled PM 7 at its Skärblacka mill in Sweden.

Voith widened the machine-glazed kraft paper machine from 4.7 m to 5.4 m, and replaced the unit's headbox, fourdrinier, and breast roll. The quality-driven project also saw the upgrade of the forming section, MG cylinder and calendar section.

A spokesman for the mill said that PM 7, which could previously produce some 42,500 tonnes/yr, would begin to run at its new capacity of 55,000 tonnes/yr within about six months.

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