New Paper machine in Pöls: the world’s largest Yankee Cylinder (drying cylinder) delivered.

Europe’s largest kraft paper machine is currently being built in Pöls, Austria. This represents an investment totaling over 115 mio Euros. On Monday the 11th March the huge „Yankee Cylinder“, the heart of the new paper machine, arrived by special transport in Pöls. The cylinder has a diameter of 6.7 meters and is the largest welded, high precision drying cylinder in the world.

The transportation to Pöls presented a challenge to both the Zellstoff Pöls as well as for Andritz AG, who delivered the machine. The cylinder with its 6.7 meters diameter, with a fully assembled weight of 150 tons was delivered in 2 parts and especially the passage through the Gleinalm tunnel was very risky. The tunnel was blocked off for all traffic in order to allow the passage of this very heavy transport.
 
The very heart of the new paper machine
The cylinder is a high-precision drying cylinder and is thus responsible for the drying of the paper. It is also called “Yankee Cylinder” and is the heart of every MG paper machine. MG is "machine glazed" paper, a paper with very high strength. "Due to the diameter of the cylinder, the paper passing through has a longer dwelling time on the cylinder surface and due to this fact; the MG paper smoothness is produced on the paper side facing the cylinder." said Siegfried Gruber, who is the responsible Project Manager from the Zellstoff Pöls..
 
Excellent cooperation of two Styrian companies
„The construction of the new paper machine is a great example of excellent collaboration between two Styrian companies at very high levels,“ said Kurt Maier, CEO of Zellstoff Pöls. Even during the prefabrication of the parts at Andritz AG, work had to be completed with utmost precision to allow a problem free reassembly of the cylinder at the local site in Pöls later on. After arriving in Pöls the 2 parts will be re-built and welded together and in early June, a 600 ton crane will collect and lift the cylinder over the roof of the paper mill to its final inside destination. Here the cylinder will be surface coated and finally grinded for a perfect fit.
 
Multiple uses of "Starkraft paper”
By the end of 2013 the first Starkraft paper will be produced - especially high-quality bleached kraft paper. This paper will subsequently be used to manufacture bags (e.g for bakery products), carrier bags, wrapping paper, food packaging (eg flour bags or composite packaging) or medical products.

About the Heinzel Group
The Heinzel Group, which is united under the Heinzel Holding umbrella, ranks with its subsidiaries Zellstoff Pöls AG and AS Estonian Cell among the largest producers of market pulp in Central and Eastern Europe. The Group’s trading division includes Wilfried Heinzel AG, a globally active pulp and paper trading company, and Europapier AG, the leading paper merchant in the CEE region. With over 1.200 members of staff the Heinzel group achieved a profit of 1,016 bill Euro in 2011.
 
The Zellstoff AG is one of the major companies in the federal province of Styria and achieves with its 360 employees and 26 apprentices around 220 million Euros turnover per year (2012). Zellstoff Pöls AG is one of the biggest producers of elemental chlorine-free (ECF) bleached softwood sulphate pulp in Central and Eastern Europe. ORION pulp, the brand name under which Pöls pulp is sold, is mainly used to manufacture high-quality printing and writing paper, tissue paper as well as packaging and special paper. An integrated paper machine produces bleached kraft paper. This STARKRAFT paper is primarily applied in the production of packaging and special application. The new paper machine will increase the yearly capacity to 80.000 tons.
 
 
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To obtain further information, please contact:
Mag. Susanne Herzog
Werbeagentur Rubikon
Tel.: 0676/33 14 410
Email: herzog@rubikon.at