Papermaker Parenco will have its former graphic paper machine at its paper mill in Renkum, the Netherlands, rebuilt by Voith, which will enable it to produce 385,000 metric tons of packaging paper per year. This was previously announced in June 2015. The grade conversion will be carried out on the PM 2, which was decommissioned in 2009. A pre-engineering project conducted by Voith for Parenco preceded the decision to go ahead with the rebuild.
In future, the mill operator wants to produce corrugating medium and
testliner on the PM 2, which will produce 1,100 metric tons per day
from recovered paper. The production speed will be 1,200 m/min
and the paper will have a basis weight in the range of 70 to 160
g/m2 . The width of the paper machine made it suitable for conversion
to testliner and corrugating medium. “It is actually ideal for it,” says
Dr.Thomas Elenz, Key Account Manager at Voith, “because a great
many of the new machines used in the downstream processing industry
call for paper rolls that are 2.8 m wide. The PM 2 has a wire
width of 9,200 mm and will produce paper webs that are 8.4 m wide,
exactly three times 2.8 m.
