TURKEY
PMT INSTALLATION IS TURKISH
SUCCESS STORY
Following the article in the last issue of Tissue World
concerning the Turkish tissue market, PMT Italia has supplied
details of the Havat Izmit plant in that country.
The PMT Italia 60,000 tpy tissue plant in Hayat Izmit was
startup up according to schedule and reached 230 tpd of
saleable paper at the end of December 2005.
The 5.45 m-wide
crescent-former PM has an operating speed of 2,000 mpm
and is served by two stock preparation lines. It produces
tissue from virgin pulp in the basis weight range of 14
- 28 gsm, which Hayat converts into toilet paper, facial
tissue and kitchen roll. The machine features an interesting
application of a cogeneration plant (CHP), installed by
Hayat Kimya, the waste gases from which are used for feeding
the high performance hood. This is described as a unique
application of a hood that uses all the escape gases from
a gas turbine, and in which operational air speed and temperature
can be modulated according to the conditions of the gas
flows coming from the turbine.
A combining line with four unwind stands with an operating
speed of 1800 mpm completes the PMT supply.
EGYPT
Indevco aims to
build greenfield tissue mill in Egypt (story
contributed by RISI)
Indevco is looking to build a 50,000 tonne/yr greenfield tissue paper plant in
Sadat City, Egypt, according to the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
A new company, Interstate Paper Industries (IPI), has been set up as a result.
The Indevco group, based in Lebanon, has applied to the IFC for funding toward
the project, which would cost an estimated $76.8 million. If approved, the IFC
would grant a loan of up to $26.4 million, with the remainder of the financing
to come from a parallel loan, a shareholder's loan and equity. The institution,
the private sector arm of the World Bank, is expected to reach a decision on
the funding later this month.
The new mill would supply jumbo rolls to converters in the Middle East, Europe
and Africa. The plant's location has been selected and the city's mayor has approved
the mill site. IPI has also begun the process of obtaining the necessary permits
for the scheme.
The facility would use domestically sourced recovered paper, with around 30,000
tonnes/yr expected to be bought on the market, as well as imported market pulp,
as furnish for tissue paper production. Further details, such as the mill's startup
date, are not yet available.
IPI is 99 percent owned by the Indevco subsidiary Frem Industrial Group, with
the rest owned by two of its other subsidiaries. Indevco already operates a 33,000
tonne/yr tissue plant in Halat, Lebanon - Unipak Tissue Mill. A new 15,000 tonne/yr
machine started up at the site in 2005. Despite the expansion, the IFC said the
group is finding it difficult to meet demand, and is therefore looking to build
the new facility in Egypt, with most output expected to be exported.
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EGYPT
Al Zeina Tissue Mill orders line from PMT
Al Zeina Tissue Mill has contracted
PMT Italia to build a 30,000-tpy tissue
line for its mill in Cairo, Egypt.
The project will be handled on a turnkey
basis by PMT and scope of supply will
include full engineering (mechanical,
piping and electrical) and erection
services.
The new 2.75 m-wide crescent
former PM will have an operating speed
of 2,000 mpm. It will be delivered along with
the full range of stock preparation equipment
and auxiliary systems including controls, automation and electrification.
The
15 ft-diameter Yankee Dryer will be supplied
by PMT through its UK subsidiary, PMT Industries
Limited, based in Kentfield Drive, Bolton.
A
PMT combining line with three unwind stands and
winder and a PMT in line calender with an operative
speed of 1800 mpm complete the PMT supply. The
machine will manufacture tissue from virgin pulp.
Al
Zeina Tissue Mill was established by Eng. Abdul
Karim Natout. Natout is the Chairman and CEO
of Al Zeina Tissue Mill and also the Chairman
and CEO of the Egyptian Company for Paper & Hygienic
Products "Zeina", one of
three key players in Egypt’s tissue converting industry. Al Zeina Tissue
Mill is a joint venture with main ownership between Natout and Sultan Bin Mahfouz
of Saudi Arabia. Al Zeina Tissue Mill is planned to commence production during
the first quarter of 2008 and to expand further into the Middle East’s
growing market.
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MENA
WARNING SIGNALS FOR MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA OVERCAPACITY
Contrary to bullish forecasts on the growth of tissue in
the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region published in
earlier reports, new evidence is emerging that the oil
boom has led to accelerated investment far beyond projected
demand growth.
This is according to a recent study by the Nuqul Group
examining the forces affecting the industry, which will
be presented for the first time at Tissue World 2007 in
Nice on 26-29 March 2007. The report suggests the big rise
in tissue capacity that will lead to serious overcapacity
in 2008, and through 2009-2011.
The increase from recent startups (Nuqul, Tonic, Pyramids,
Indevco), projects under construction (ADNP, Crown, Orient,
Gulf, Nuqul), and announced projects (Emirates, Zeina and
GHI, Saudi Paper, Indevco) will double the region's capacity
even before adding the rumored projects in Iran, Kuwait,
Saudi and Jordan or increases in efficiencies of existing
mills.
Numerous factors such as political conflicts in Lebanon,
Palestine, Iraq and Sudan, trade boycott threats against
Iran and Syria, as well as poor wealth distribution between
rich and poor countries (and within the richer countries
themselves), combine to limit consumption growth to levels
that in no way can absorb this increase in supply.
Further challenges to the industry come from surplus capacity
in Europe and China, an increased demand for non-available
waste paper coupled with a similar boom in adding deinking
plants, and the expected tightening of environmental constraints
imposed by the WTO and lending institutions such as the
IFC arm of the World Bank.
With price being the only competitive tool employed, converters
that do not make their own paper may be at an advantage
in the coming five years, according to the report.
