The new 38,000 tpy tissue machine is said to come online in the fourth quarter next year at Trevipapel's subsidiary Paper Prime.
Portugese tissue products group Trevipapel is entering the production of tissue paper. Paper Prime, a company of the Trevipapel group, will install a new Toscotec-supplied tissue machine at a greenfield mill in Vila Velha de Rodao, in the east of the country.
According to Toscotec, the TM will have a net trim width of 2,750 mm and operate at 2,000 m/min. Toscotec puts the annual production capacity of the machine at 38,000 tpy.
The start-up of Paper Prime's first tissue machine is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016.
