UPM is a global group, a leading producer of graphic papers in locations in Europe, Asia and the US. The annual production capacity is approx. 13 Mio. tonnes.

The paper mill in Plattling (about 140 KM northeast of Munich, Germany) was founded 1982 and is a leading production facility for SC and LWC papers in Europe. Up to 780.000 tonnes per year are produced on 3 paper machines, 460 employees work in Plattling.

GAW technologies was assigned with the delivery of the kaolin transfer working station and the cationic starch preparation at the PM10&11, as well as the raise of capacity to the PVA preparation. The short schedule is a real challenge for the PVA preparation since the integration works have to be finished within 10 hours. The existing parts of the unit will be converted to ATEX-standard. The start up is scheduled for May 2012.

Plattling has chosen once again to rely on the know-how of GAW; many projects have been realized together in previous years.

(March 2012)

GAW know-how for the largest cigarette-related paper producer in China

Mudanjiang Hengfeng Paper Co., Ltd (a listed company in Shanghai stock market) is located in the southeast part of Heilongjiang Province and was established in 1952. Today it is the largest manufacturer of cigarette-related papers in China with 2300 employees, equipped with 16 paper machines.The main products of the company include cigarette paper, plug wrap paper, aluminum foil backing paper, tipping base paper and over a hundred types of industrial specialty paper. All these products are distributed both locally and internationally, supplying all major Chinese tobacconists and some foreign key-players as well.

GAW technologies has been awarded with the delivery of keyparts as well as detailed engineering, erection supervision and start-up service for the continuous coating colour preparation to produce special low coating weight grades after the rebuild of PM15. The keyparts include clay make down and CaCO³ storage and transfer, minor additives storage and transfer, fully automatic continuous coating colour preparation and storage as well as the working stations to filmpress.

It will be GAW’s 3rd reference in China for such high sophisticated continuous mixer technology. The start up is scheduled in summer 2012. This order is the first from Mudanjiang Hengfeng Paper and GAW is proud to support this new customer with expertise and experience of more than 6 decades.

(March 2012)

GAW will deliver the chemical preparation system for the new tissue machine PM5 - supplied by Voith - at the SCA Mainz-Kostheim plant. The scope of delivery will include the storage units as well as the mixing and dosing stations for the coating chemicals.

Kostheim - close to Mainz / Germany - is one of many facilities of SCA, a global hygiene and paper company with 45,000 employees.

GAW will deliver the processing plants and the feeding system of the coating chemicals to the Yankee cylinder. The Yankee is an independent, multi-functional part, which works as a big drying cylinder as well as a backing roll to the press roll. It is the most central, sophisticated and expensive part of each tissue machine.

The PM5 is of double width (wire width: 5,500 mm) and will produce some 60,000 metric tons per year of high-quality tissue paper at a basis weight of 20.5 g/m² on average. The start-up is scheduled for spring 2013.

(February 2012)

GAW supports one of the largest Chinese mining companies with expansion

The Fushun Mining Group, founded over a century ago, is one of the largest mining companies in China. Its main products are coal, shale oil and mining machinery but it is also expanding into other business segments. Its investment in the construction of a paper machine, which was commissioned in autumn 2011 in the city of Fushun in the north-eastern province of Liaoning for the production of 60,000 tonnes of tissue paper every year, was the company’s first step in the paper industry. The operating subsidiary has been named Hupo Paper.

In addition to the tissue paper machine, another machine is also currently being set up for the production of 300,000 tonnes of recycled corrugated cardboard per year, for which GAW will supply the starch treatment units, working stations and processing systems for wet end chemicals. One of the main challenges with this project is the tight schedule with a delivery deadline of spring 2012.

Hupo Paper is a major part of the current regeneration and reconstruction taking place in the paper industry in north-east China, following its deterioration in the late nineties when, primarily because of outdated infrastructure, many major state paper factories lost their competitive viability and closed down. GAW is proud that its decades of experience in processing liquid and powder-based products for paper manufacturing has enabled it to acquire a new, aspiring paper producer as a customer with Hupo Paper.

(February 2012)