MINSK, 6 October (BelTA) – Svetlogorsk Pulp and Board Mill intends to make the first viscose pulp by the end of the year, the press service of the Belarusian timber, woodworking, pulp and paper industry concern Bellesbumprom told BelTA.
Bellesbumprom enterprises continue vigorous modernization. The main task is to set up facilities for deep conversion and for manufacturing products with a high added value.
Svetlogorsk Pulp and Board Mill is getting ready to start manufacturing viscose pulp. The company has already polished the technology. Equipment is now being tuned for the sake of comprehensive trials and consequent commissioning of the facility. The first viscose pulp is supposed to be made by the end of the year. The product will be in demand in Belarus and abroad. Svetlogorsk Pulp and Board Mill may start manufacturing paper out of pulp on its own in the future.
The investment project to start making base paper to make facing and lining materials – laminated wood boards – is in the final phase at the Shklov-based newsprint mill. The new line will start working in December. The production of at least five varieties of base paper will be launched over the course of six months after that. The new equipment will allow making up to 30,000 tonnes of paper that has not been made in Belarus up till now. It will fully satisfy the domestic demand for this kind of merchandise and will allow the company to export base paper.
The Dobrush Paper Factory Geroy Truda is about to finish building a factory to make coated and uncoated pasteboard with the output capacity of 200,000 tonnes per annum. The new product will satisfy the domestic demand for coated and uncoated pasteboard and will considerably increase the export potential. About 80% of the pasteboard will be exported.
The main construction and installation operations have been completed. A water intake facility and a water treatment facility have been commissioned. The facilities will supply the paper factory with process water and will provide water for fire-extinguishing systems of the current enterprise and the new one. A line to make wood chips has been trialed. The necessary performance and quality parameters have been achieved. Noise levels in the residential area near the factory were measured in the course of the trial run of the new line. The noise levels were deemed acceptable. The turbine unit of the new cogeneration plant was trialed as well. All the systems operate correctly. Tests and tuning of the outdoor automatic fire-extinguishing systems are about to end as well.
There are plans to commission a wood processing shop, onsite railway lines, a bleached thermomechanical mass shop, power installations, and water and wastewater treatment installations this year. Then the specialists will get down to commissioning the cardboard machine and the pulp defibration section. Belarusian contractors and representatives of the Austrian company that made the process equipment are working at the site. Software is being developed, all the automation systems are being tuned.
The implementation of these projects will result in a multiplicative effect for the industry, the Bellesbumprom press service said. With new base products available in the country it will be possible to develop their further processing – production of various kinds of packaging and other products with a high added value.
