Roundup of Packaging Paper Projects Coming Online in 2021 (Incomplete Count): Capacity Surges by More Than 6 Million Tonnes

Following the addition of 7 million tonnes of new papermaking capacity and 46 million tonnes of planned capacity in China in 2020, 2021 was another big year for China's paper industry. On one hand, paper prices kept soaring and paper mills earned enormous profits; on the other hand, booming exports and the national wave of plastic bans and restrictions greatly boosted market confidence.

At the same time, companies in the paper industry rushed to launch new projects, with investments routinely reaching tens of billions of yuan, a rarity in the world. After many years in which market demand stalled at 100 million tonnes, new papermaking capacity is surging, as if welcoming another golden 30 years.

In 2021, according to incomplete statistics, the paper industry added more than 6 million tonnes of packaging paper capacity, and even more capacity will come on stream in 2022!

A review of packaging paper projects newly commissioned in 2021:

Sun Paper's 800,000-tonne-per-year high-grade packaging paper project PM2 in Laos starts up smoothly

On January 10, 2021, the PM2 production line of Sun Paper's 800,000-tonne-per-year high-grade packaging paper project in Laos started up and produced paper smoothly. It is understood that this PM2 line began production only one month after the PM1 line was commissioned (PM1 started up on December 11, 2020).

Guizhou's largest packaging paper mill fully commissions the 600,000-tonne packaging paper project in its first phase

On January 26, PM2 of Guizhou Pengsheng (Group) Paper Co., Ltd. produced paper smoothly, marking the full commissioning of the 600,000-tonne-per-year packaging paper project in its first phase.

Kadant provides pulping equipment for the Jinhe 4800 pulp board line project of Shanying Paper Thailand, which starts up

On May 10, 2021, the pulping equipment with an annual output of 400,000 t and the approach flow system supplied by Kadant for the Jinhe 4800 pulp board line project of Shanying Paper Thailand were commissioned smoothly. The project is a recycled fiber pulp board machine line invested in by Shanying Paper Thailand at its base in Prachinburi Province, Thailand, using imported American waste paper as raw material, and it is of great significance to the development of the global waste paper pulp board market.

Guangdong Lingyu Environmental Paper's 150,000-tonne coated white board paper project starts up and produces paper

Recently, the coated white board paper project of Guangdong Lingyu Environmental Paper Technology Co., Ltd., established in May 2020, started up and produced paper smoothly. It is understood that the main paper machine equipment and part of the supporting pulp line equipment of this production line are a second-hand coated white board paper machine purchased from Fuyang.

Stora Enso's new-generation food-grade pulp molding project officially goes into production in China

On June 8, 2021, Stora Enso China Packaging announced that the first phase of its new-generation food-grade pulp molding project in Qian'an, Hebei, was officially commissioned, and that it will produce new-generation eco-friendly, high-quality pulp tableware such as food containers and cup lids at scale. This move marks the official entry of Stora Enso's pulp molding business into the field of food packaging and will help the food and catering industry accelerate its transition to a greener and more environmentally friendly circular economy model.

Datong Guansen Paper Co., Ltd.'s first packaging paper machine starts up and produces paper smoothly

On June 8, the first industrial paper project (PM1) of Datong Guansen Paper Co., Ltd. started up and produced paper smoothly. The main paper machine equipment of this production line is a second-hand linerboard machine purchased from a paper mill in Fuyang. The machine has a width of 3600mm and a design speed of 450 m/min; it uses 100% waste paper as raw material to produce low-grammage high-strength corrugating medium, with an annual capacity of about 70,000 tonnes.

Jiangsu Fantai Paper Co., Ltd.'s 200,000-tonne high-strength corrugating medium project goes into production

At 2:06 on June 11, the new production line successfully wound its first reel of paper. The paper machine equipment was supplied by Henan Zhongya Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. The machine has a net paper width of 5200mm and a design speed of 650 m/min; it uses 100% waste paper as raw material to produce low-grammage high-strength corrugating medium, with an annual capacity of 200,000 tonnes.

ANDRITZ to supply 4 coaters to Jiangxi Wuxing Paper

On June 14, ANDRITZ supplied 4 Prime Coat Jet on-machine coaters for its plant in Hukou County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, with the equipment scheduled to be commissioned in 2021. These 4 coaters will be used on a folding boxboard paper machine line with a maximum design speed of 1000 m/min and a maximum reel width of 5660mm.

Henan Xinxiang Hongtai Paper Co., Ltd.'s white board paper project starts up and produces paper

On July 13, the white board paper project of Henan Xinxiang Hongtai Paper Co., Ltd. started up and produced paper smoothly. The project is a multi-fourdrinier multi-cylinder paper machine with a net paper width of 4600mm and a design speed of 600 m/min; it mainly uses waste paper as raw material to produce 250-450 gsm coated white board paper, with an annual capacity of more than 200,000 tonnes.

Sun Paper: new 550,000-tonne-per-year printing and writing paper at its Guangxi base

The new projects at the Guangxi base include a 550,000-tonne-per-year printing and writing paper project, a 120,000-tonne-per-year household paper project, and supporting 800,000-tonne-per-year chemical wood pulp and 200,000-tonne-per-year chemi-mechanical pulp projects. Among them, the 550,000-tonne-per-year printing and writing paper project was successfully commissioned on September 26, 2021.

Jiangsu Jintian Paper: 2 paper machines successfully commissioned within half a month

The largest recycled paper producer under construction in Jiangsu Province - Jiangsu Jintian Paper Co., Ltd. in Xiangshui, Yancheng - saw two grey board paper production lines in its first phase start up and produce paper smoothly.

It is understood that since the third quarter, Jiangsu Jintian Paper, together with its main project equipment supplier Hangzhou Beichen Light Industry Machinery Co., Ltd. and other companies, overcame the impact of unfavorable factors such as power rationing and resurgences of the pandemic, and on October 20 the PM16 machine, the first paper production line of the first-phase project, was successfully commissioned, producing paper immediately upon startup.

Jiangsu Jintian Paper Co., Ltd.'s PM17 starts up and produces paper smoothly

On November 1, PM17, another production line of the first-phase project of Jiangsu Jintian Paper Co., Ltd., was successfully commissioned and produced paper smoothly; its first paper machine, PM16, had started up on the 20th of the previous month. It is understood that PM17 and PM16 are right-hand and left-hand machines located in the same workshop, and the production line equipment was also supplied by Hangzhou Beichen Light Industry Machinery Co., Ltd. The machine has a net paper width of 4800mm and a design speed of 450 m/min; it mainly produces 300-650 gsm grey board paper, with a designed capacity of 350,000 tonnes per year.

Shandong Fengshuo Paper Co., Ltd.'s coated white board paper technical upgrade project starts up and produces paper smoothly

On November 4, the coated white board technical upgrade project of Shandong Fengshuo Paper Co., Ltd. started up and produced paper smoothly. It is understood that the machine has a net paper width of 3400mm and a design speed of 700 m/min, with a domestically made shoe press in the press section; it uses 100% waste paper pulp as raw material and adopts on-machine coating to produce 200-450 gsm coated white board paper, with an annual capacity of more than 200,000 tonnes.

Guangxi Sun Paper's 900,000-tonne folding boxboard production line produces paper smoothly

At around 9 a.m. on December 4, 2021, the 900,000-tonne-per-year folding boxboard production line, the third paper machine at Sun Paper's Guangxi base, produced paper smoothly.

The paper machine was supplied by Voith of Germany. It has a width of 8.8 metres and a design speed of 1300 m/min, and it currently runs at a speed of around 800 m/min. In China, such machines typically reach an annual capacity of about 1 million tonnes once they achieve their design speed.

Guangxi Jingui's 900,000-tonne folding boxboard capacity in its second phase is about to go into production

On December 3, after more than 600 Chinese and foreign technical personnel carried out 10 days of round-the-clock equipment commissioning, the first paper machine of the closely watched 1.8-million-tonne-per-year high-grade paperboard expansion project of Jingui Phase II successfully completed the full process flow.

The first paper machine of the 1.8-million-tonne-per-year high-grade paperboard expansion project of Jingui Phase II was introduced from Valmet of Finland, a world-renowned pulp and papermaking supplier. It has a net paper width of 8.1 metres, a design speed of 1450 m/min and a capacity of 900,000 tonnes per year; once completed and commissioned, it will be one of the widest and fastest coated board machines in the world.

——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn). Original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-378800.html