Eren Paper Ltd, a subsidiary of Turkish Modern Karton, has submitted an application for a new tissue plant at its Shotton site in Wales.
The new TM would be built on the main site, where Eren Paper had originally planned to install the corrugating machine, according to the application prepared by SLR Consulting. The already approved corrugator facility would be located within the wider site at a later date, under a new application.
Instead of demolishing the existing buildings to make space for the corrugator facility, as was planned in the original application, the derelict structures would be repurposed for the tissue machine building and ancillary structures, including pulp storage and bale handling areas and a reel storage building with a capacity to store 8,500 t of reels.
The pulp storage area will be used to receive recycled pulp using the overhead pipe from the existing paper recycling process plant on the main site. Pulp for tissue manufacture would be either primary, recycled or a mix of the two, according to the latest application. The capacity of the new TM was not disclosed.
Under the original planning application, Eren wanted to install 3 tissue machines with a total capacity of 210,000 tpy and tissue converting equipment on an area of the premises which had so far been unused.
Eren Paper is in the process of building a new 750,000 tpy containerboard machine at the site, which is expected to start up next year. It will produce lightweight papers in base weight ranges from 70 to135 g/m², using 100 per cent recovered fibre as raw material.
