Tissue World Magazine
Alexandra Stuthridge, Technical Business Manager, BioProducts Institute (BPI)

China’s Lee & Man has started up its fourth Voith-supplied XcelLine tissue machine.

Based in Guangdong, the machine has a wire width of 5.6m and is designed for an operational speed of 2,000m/min.

It will produce 60,000tpy of household tissue from virgin fibre.

Scope of supply includes the Voith BlueLine stock preparation unit, approach flow system, broke handling, a white water system and the entire XcelLine tissue machine.

It features the NipcoFlex T shoe press to offer remarkable energy savings, a 5.5m Steel Yankee dryer cylinder and a high-performance steam-heated hood.

The company has started up four high-quality tissue paper lines at its site in Jiangxi and Guangdong.

It has five production sites in China and mainly produces packaging paper and tissue paper.