Monday, December 21, 2009

China’s Sun Paper Announces Another Paper Machine

Sun Paper will build a $228 million, 300,000 TPA, uncoated mechanical (groundwood) paper machine at the Yanzhou City mill. This machine (PM24) will make publication papers in a basis weight range of 60-150 g/m2, in 2011. This will follow the installation of PM23, a 350,000TPA uncoated fine paper machine being installed in April 2010.
Sun currently produces 450,000 TPA of uncoated woodfree and mechanical paper, 100,000TPA of coated woodfree paper, and 300,000 TPA of cartonboard from this facility.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW. I hope most of this stuff stays on their side of the ocean!!!!!

Anonymous said...

This IS a lot of paper suddenly coming on stream - I must think the plan has much of this tonnage heading to this side of the ocean!!!!!!