TISSUE MACHINE, 2,900mm (2,750mm trim), 17-40 gsm, 900m/min, 70tpd
1. General information
This is an Italian paper mill producing a large variety of tissue papers. The tissue paper production line, installed in 2004, was shut down in June 2012 when the company entered in voluntary liquidation procedure.
2. Inspection of the tissue production line
Inspections of the tissue production line are welcomed at any time prior written consent of the Seller.
3. Actual status of the equipment
The complete plant & machinery is still assembled and it is for sale with the formula “as is where is”.
4. Location
Southern Italy.
5. Main characteristics of the production line
- Construction year and installation 2004
- Manufacturers:Maule, Comer, ST Macchine, SICMA, Recard, De Iuliis,
- Yankee DrierE.Hoesch (Yankee Dryer)
- Mill shut down:2012, June
- Status of the machinery:Completely assembled and serviced (no missing parts)
- Type of machinery:Combined (Fourdrinier + Yankee Dryer)
- Machine hand:Right (drive on the right side when looking the reel from headbox)
- Paper grade:Large variety of tissue
- Basis weight range:17 - 40 gsm
- Raw material:Secondary fibre (selected waste paper)
- Wire width:2,900 mm
- Paper width at reel:2,750 mm
- Design mechanical speed:1,000 mpm
- Max. operating speed:900 mpm
- Max. production:60 MTPD
Brief description of the plant
Hydraulic headbox, Fourdrinier, 1st press (suction roll) and 2nd press (blind drilled roll), 3600 X 2900 mm Yankee Dryer (4 bar operating pressure), Pope reel (max. 2000 mm diameter roll), Tissue combining line (2 working stations), automatic wrapping machinery, spare parts, steam generation plant, waste water treatment.
Power and frequency at mill:380 V – 50 Hz
Tissue machinery drive:DC
6. Description of the supply & services
The supply includes the following items:
- PM approach flow systems (paragraph9.1.);
- combined paper machinery for tissue papers and related auxiliary systems (paragraphs 9.2. – 9.7.);
- tissue combining line (paragraph 9.8.) & finished rolls wrapping machinery;
- waste-water treatment equipment (paragraph 9.7.)
- main spare parts;
- stock preparation plant (paragraph10);
- steam generation plant (paragraph 9.7.);
7. Exclusions
The following items are excluded from our scope of supply:
- non destructive dismantling service;
- transportation service;
- parts in concrete material (with the exception of shafts, impellers and agitators that can
- be easily dismantled);
- items reported in paragraph 8 („Additional services available upon request“).
8. Additional services available upon request
General services that Saxon Machinery can offer to Buyers are the following:
- civil and process pre-engineering for buyers;
- non-destructive dismantling service;
- transportation to rebuilder facility and/or to Buyer’s facility;
- civil and process engineering;
- paper machinery refurbishing;
- provision of new PM parts and section’s rebuild;
- provision of new stock preparation equipment;
- furnishing of PM auxiliary systems;
- project management;
- assembling on site;
- start-up and personnel training;
- furnishing of spare parts;
- project financing.
9. Plant & Machinery specification
9.1. Approach flow system
Single dilution system composed of:
- constant level box in stainless steel material;
- (1) basis weight automatic valve, FOMAT ND100, control cabinet inlcuded;
- (1) under the machine (wire section) chest for water recovering in stainless steel material;
- (1) Sulzer fan pump, type ZPB 21-300, 30 m3/min, NPSH 25 m, 1200 rpm, electric motor ABB 160 kW (with frequency converter);
- (1) low consistency pressure screen ST Macchine, 25 m3/min, slotted basket AFT Aikawa Group 0.28 mm (diameter 1010 mm, height of 850 mm), TSS consistency range 0.3 – 0.4%, electric motor of 45 kW, 960 rpm;
- (1) vibrating screen having perforated plate in stainless steel material (2 mm hole diameter).
9.2. Headbox
Headbox having the following main characteristics:
- designed, manufactured and installed by ST Macchine in 2004;
- hydraulic type;
- equipped with circular tapered manifold (with recirculation pipe and balancing flow control system);
- design speed of 900 mpm; • slice width of 2850 mm;
- design hydraulic flow of 25 m3/min;
- operating consistency of 0.25 – 0.50% TSS;
- manual slice lip control;
- in full stainless steel material;
- complete of devices for vertical and horizontal top slice regulation (flow regulation and impingement point control);
- fixed to baseplates anchored to concrete basements;
- • complete of longitudinal (for Fourdrinier inspection) and transversal walkways (headbox control).
9.3. Fourdrinier
Wire section having the following main characteristics:
- designed, manufactured and installed by „SICMA“; • in cantilever;
- in full AISI 304 stainless steel;
- wire width of 2900 mm;
- distance between Brest roll and Turning roll of 11850 mm, bearing house interaxis of 3600 mm;
- without wire shaking device;
- (1) fixed Brest roll 500 mm diameter, 3310 mm wide, hard rubber covered;
- (1) forming board comprising (2) blades;
- (5) hydrofoils with (3) blades in „Robadur“ thermoplast;
- (2) hydrofoils with (5) blades in „Robadur“ thermoplast;
- (1) vacufoil with (7) blades in ceramic material;
- (2) low vacuum boxes with (5) blades in ceramic material;
- (2) high vacuum boxes with (9) bars in ceramic material;
- (1) sheet trimming system;
- (1) couch roll 580 diameter, 3310 mm wide, rubber covered;
- (1) turning roll 750 mm diameter, 3310 mm wide, driven (167 kW), hard rubber covered; • (4) wire guide rolls 325 mm diameter, 3250 mm wide, rubber covered;
- complete of mechanical wire stretcher and guide roll devices;
- complete of felt and rolls cleaning system;
- complete of stairways and walkways.
9.4. Press section
Press section having the following main characteristics:
- (1) pick-up suction, 3250 mm wide, with bars in cercamic material, designed and manufactured by De Iuliis;
- 7) felt guide rolls 325 mm diameter, 3250 mm wide, rubber covered;
- (1) return felt roll 500 mm diameter, 3250 mm wide, rubber covered;
- (2) single vacuum boxes with „Robadur“ thermoplast cover;
- (1) suction press roll 890 mm diameter, 3250 mm wide, designed and manufacture by
RECARD, rubber covered with fixed bombè, bronze shell having 22% open area, driven
(167 kW), ABB frequency converter included; - (1) blind drilled roll press 820 mm diameter, 3100 mm wide, covered (RIF „Elatherm“), holes 2.5 mm diameter, 3050 mm lenght of drilled area;
- complete of pneumatic felt stretcher and guide roll devices;
- complete of felt conditioning system;
- penumatic loading system for both presses;
- complete of stairways and walkways.
9.5. Dryer section Composed of:
- (1) Yankee Dryer 300 mm diameter, 2950 mm wide, designed and manufactured by EBERHARD HOESH, operating steam pressure of 4 bar, superficial coating (metallization) by BENDER made in 2006 and rectified by RIF, ELLI shaft mounted gear (555 kW of design power) having two parallel shafts connected with (2) ABB DC motors of 167 kW each and speed of 1750 rpm (controlled by ABB frequency converters);
- (1) hydraulic station for lubrication of shaft mounted gear, Yankee and presses bearing houses having AISI 304 stainless steel vessel of 1200 lpm, (2) electro-pumps (90 lpm, 3 kW), heat exchanger, instrumentation;
- (3) electro-mechanical oscillating doctor blades, crepeing doctor blade with adjustable holder, control panel in stainless steel included;
- high temperature air drying hood Duosystem provided by Fomat Aerothermic, in (2) independent halves (operated by pneumatic cylinders), wrapping angle of 100-115°, maximum inlet temperature of 600 – 700 °C, completed of heat recovery system and extraction of exhausted air;
- painted carbon steel framework.
9.6. Pope reel
Pope reel having these main features:
- pneumatic type; drum reel in cast iron 1000 mm diameter, 2950 mm wide, driven by reducer and ABB electric motor of 22 kW controlled by ABB frequency converter, maximum speed of 1300 mpm, maximum jumbo roll diameter of 2200 mm;
- 5) reel spools;
- without automatic reel spool loading;
- framework in painted carbon steel;
- complete of safety protections.
9.7. Miscellaneous
Vacuum system composed of:
- (1) AZMEC AL 280/2000 vacuum pump, electric motor of 132 kW @ 1480 rpm; • (1) AZMEC AL 65/2000 vacuum pump, electric motor of 110 kW @ 1450 rpm;
- (1) AZMEC AL 100/2000 vacuum pump, electric motor of 160 kW @ 1450 rpm; • stainless steel separators and pipes, instrumentation, regulation valves.
- QCS system FOMAT Automation.
- (1) UTM pulper (under reel section) made in stainless steel material, horizontal pulping group with electric motor of 55 kW @ 980 rpm, ROBUSCHI centrifugal pump with electric motor of 18.5 kW @ 1450 rpm.
- Steam generation system „Calorpack C 230“ (SIAT ITALIA) having the following main characteristics:
- power of 2300000 kcal/h;
- steam production of 3850 kg/h;
- design pressure of 15 ate;
- operating pressure from 12 to 14 ate;
- natural gas burner VEISHAUPT, year 1989.
- (1) white water treatment KROFTA SUPERCELL SPC 20 having maximum flow of 219 m3/h, maximum total solid suspended at inlet of 2000 ppm, mainly composed of:
- clarification tank 6100 mm diameter and 950 mm high, manufactured in many parts fixed by bolts;
- central vessel and skimmer;
- air dissolving tube A.D.T 1500 type (flow of 1300 lpm @ 6 ate pressure) and related
pressure pumps (1300 lpm, 60 m NPSH, 22 kW, clarified water); - sludge collecting tank;
- all parts in contact with water are in stainless steel material.
- (1) wrapping machinery for finished rolls coming from the tissue combining line.
- Main spare parts.
9.8. Tissue combining line
Tissue combining line designed for speed of 1000 mpm, composed of:
• (2) working stations (2 layers tissue) for jumbo rolls of 2200 mm diameter maximum, completed of (2) belts per station driven by electric motor of 22 kW controlled by frequency converter;
• (2) drum type, maximum wounded roll of 1700 mm diameter (2750 mm wide), driven by electric motor having 75 kW @ 1000 rpm controlled by ABB frequency converter;
• slitter section;
• trims removal system;
• lowering cradle operated by hydraulic cylinders (complete of hydraulic station);
• frameworks in painted carbon steel;
• control benchboard.
10. Stock preparation system
Mainly composed of:
- (1) MERI belt conveyor for pulper loading, 9 m of lenght, 1.4 m of width, drive with ROSSI motor reducer and self-brake electric motor of 3 kW, completed of electric panel;
- (1) medium consistency pulper of 14 m3 capacity, completed of stainless steel perforated plate and extraction chamber, vessel in steel internally lined with stainless steel sheets, drive including V belt transmission and electric motor of 160 kW @ 1450 rpm;
- (1) stock extraction pump TURO, flow of 6000 lpm, 30 kW of installed power;
- (1) roatating screen drum (Trommel) 1600 mm diameter, 3500 mm of length, installed power of 5.5 kW, completed of vessel for water recovering and pump;
- (1) screw for the delivery of waste stock from the Trommel to the dewatering press,
motor reducer of 5.5 kW; - (1) compacting press operated by hydraulic cylinders, completed of hydraulic unit;
- (2) stock chests in stainless steel material, 3300 mm diameter, height of 6 m, volume of
50 m3, completed of agitator (electric motor having 11 kW of installed power); - (2) ROBUSCHI stock pumps having capacity of 60 m3/h, NPSH of 30 m, installed power of 30 kW;
- (1) high consistency cleaner COMER, DP2 type;
- (1) MAULE Separplast GR.II type having basket with 4.0 mm holes and installed power
of 45 kW completed of plast-strainer (motor reducer with 1.1 kW of installed power); - 2) deflakers CELLI, D5 type, year 1992, completed of electric motors of 55 kW @ 2950
rpm; - (1) CELLI DD refiner 20“, type RDD 50, year 1991, completed of electric motor of 160 kW
@ 960 rpm; - 1) PILAO conic refiner, RTC 1000 type, year 2002, completed of electric motor of 160
kW @ 960 rpm; - (1) stock chest in stainless steel material, manufactured by ST Macchine, 3200 mm
diameter, 5000 mm of height, capacity of 38 m3, in (4) pieces fixed by flanges, completed of agitator (ABB electric motor of 11 kW @ 970 rpm); - (1) ROBUSCHI pump delivering the stock to the machine chest, flow of 60 m3/h, installed power of 18.5 kW.
