OREANDA-NEWS. September 10, 2014. International technology Group Andritz has started up the PM K-28 paper machine at Narodnoye Predpriyatie Naberezhnye Chelny Paper Mill in Russia after completing a major rebuild. Saleable paper was already obtained on the second reel produced.

The machine has a design speed of 800 m/min at a width of 4.75 m and produces testliner and kraftliner, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

Andritz supplied two new headboxes (PrimeFlow SW) with PrimeProFiler dilution control and two PrimeForm Fourdriniers, as well as adding a new press with a PrimePress X shoe press in the second position. PrimeRun M web stabilizers and a new QCS system were also installed, as well as two new paper machine approach systems and a broke pulper. New process pumps from Andritz will help to further raise efficiency.

Andritz Pulp & Paper is a leading global supplier of equipment, systems, and services for the production and processing of all types of pulps, paper, tissue, and cardboard.