Gulf Paper Manufacturing (GPM) has started-up a Toscotec-supplied forming section upgrade on its PM2 tissue line based at its Mina Abdullah facility in Kuwait.
The forming section rebuild included an approach flow system upgrade and the installation of a TT Headbox designed to match the quality requirements for facial tissue in the Middle Eastern market.
Ghaleb Alhadhrami, GPM’s Projects and Development Manager, and Ahmed Kasim, Plant Manager said: “With this project, we invested in a technological upgrade of our existing machine in order to achieve a substantial quality improvement.
“The project hit its mark, and we are already offering an important added value to our customers in the regional market.”
Established in 1978, GPM was the first company to start manufacturing paper in the Gulf region in 1981.
Owned by two families of Kuwaiti entrepreneurs, it now operates three production lines at its Mina Abdullah paper mill in Kuwait, producing 70,000tpy of packaging grades fluting medium, test liner, and white top liner, using 100% recycled paper on PM1, tissue manufactured from 100% virgin pulp on PM2; and tissue converting at PM3.
