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

News from RISI – The Shanghai Welfare Group has fired up a 12,000tpy tissue PM at its mill in Shaoxing city, Zhejiang province.

The Kawanoe Zoki machine has a width of 2.76m and a design speed of 770m/min.

The firm announced a plan to expand by installing four identical tissue PMs in 2009. This one is the last to come online.

The other three were fired up in 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively.

Currently, the mill has a total tissue capacity of around 65,000tpy.