Metso-supplied containerboard machine starts up at Fujian Liansheng Paper in China

Published Mar 1, 2011 07.00.00 +2 GMT

The Metso-supplied containerboard machine, PM 3, of Fujian Liansheng Paper Co., Ltd. in Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province in China successfully started up on February 9, 2011.

PM 3 produces fluting within the basis weight range of 80–120 g/m2. The annual production capacity of the 6.4-m-wide (wire) machine is around 300,000 tonnes and the design speed is 1,100 m/min. The production line was started up with a Metso wet end machine clothing package. 

Fujian Liansheng Paper Co., Ltd. started paper production in 1999. The company established the Zhangzhou mill site in 2006. In 2010, Liansheng Paper Industry (Longhai) Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Fujian Liansheng Paper, ordered two 7.25-m-wide containerboard machines from Metso to its mill in Longhai City, Fujian Province in China.

Metso is a global supplier of sustainable technology and services for mining, construction, power generation, automation, recycling and the pulp and paper industries. We have about 28,500 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

For more information, please contact:

Ma Zhiliang, Project Manager, Paper business line, Metso Tel. +86 13709183199, zhiliang.ma(at)metso.com