AMS Gomá-Camps starts up Toscotec tissue machine in Portugal

LUCCA, Italy, Aug. 26, 2009 (Press Release) - On August 10th, AMS Gomá-Camps has started production at the new plant in Vila Velha de Ródão, Portugal. The mill houses an AHEAD 2.0 line from Toscotec with an overall capacity of 110 tpd.

AMS Gomá-Camps, a newcomer into the tissue industry, is a private company owned by the Portuguese´s Grupo Mateus and Simao Rocha and the Spanish company Gomà Camps.

The plant, designed to operate with virgin pulp and waste paper, will produce both jumbo reels for local converters as well as finished products and will provide the Iberian and North African markets with a wide range of products including facial tissue, napkins, toilet tissue and towels. The mill will also supply Portuguese-speaking African countries and will be active both in the consumer market as well as in the AFH sector.

Toscotec's "turn-key" project includes stock preparation plant for virgin pulp, AHEAD 2.0 tissue machine with 15' Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD 15FT, machine auxiliaries, a three ply tissue rewinder (TT WIND-H) with calender, electrification&control system and erection activity.
Machine speed will be 1900 mpm with a net trim width of 2820 mm and a daily production of 110 tons.

AMS Gomá-Camps project was based on B.A.T. (Best Available Technology) for tissue production and, thanks to the combination of a Steel Yankee Dryer and TT large diameter suction press, was strongly oriented towards energy savings.

The perfect cooperation between AMS Gomá-Camps and Toscotec allowed to match the project target in terms of quality and timing and the start-up of the new greenfield project was reached in less than 14 months from the order date and 5 days "ahead" from the scheduled time. To fulfil this schedule the 30.000 sqm covered area, have been built in 7 months.

One week before the tissue machine start up, and accordingly to the project schedule, AMS Gomá-Camps has started the first converting line.