Paper Machine No. 7 on the Leading Edge of Technology

Paper Machine No. 7 On the leading edge of technology.

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PM7 – the true next-generation paper machine 5 Stock preparation Hard wood and soft wood line 4 Extensible unit Paper Machine No. 7 by Mondi, the world’s premier producer of sack kraft paper and speciality kraft paper, 3 Air impingement dryers sets a new standard for packaging and paper solutions.

Located in the heart of Europe, just north of Prague, 2 Winder with an annual paper capacity of 155,000 tonnes, PM7, 5 which will produce white kraft paper, took just 13 months to build. Construction involved no fewer than 8 550 truckloads of machinery parts and 2,000 cubic 3 7 metres of concrete, as the machine weighs 6,000 tonnes. 4 The €70 million investment has created around 60 new jobs in Štětí.

6 Key facts 2 Location: Š t ě t í , Czech Republic

Production capacity: 155 ktonnes 1 Maximum production speed: 950 m/min

PM width: 6.5 m

Working width of winder: 6.3 m 8 Headbox and top former Paper: white kraft paper

1 New wrapping line Improving formation Basis weight range: 50–120 g/m2 Including modifi cation of reel transport 7 Shoe press • Excellent sheet forming lines – dispatch area • Excellent cross profi les Design speed: 1,200 m/min 6 Improving stiffness Shoe calender Better fi bre distribution • Higher bulk • High strength properties Better printing results • Increased caliper • Better printability • Improvement of surface roughness • Better surface topography • Remaining strength properties and porosity

2 3 www.mondigroup.com www.mondigroup.com Excellent printability AND high strength properties combined within the same paper grade!

Sack kraft paper & speciality kraft paper

The technical capabilities of PM7 offer clear advantages with shoe press and shoe calender in the paper ma- for the converting industry and end users and meet the chine provide a unique combination of high gloss and most challenging demands. The top former combined excellent strength properties within the same grade!

Sack kraft paper Speciality kraft paper With PM7, Mondi is the only sack kraft paper With PM7 we offer bleached smooth-ﬁ nished Stronger. Smoother. Perfect printability. producer with the technology to produce paper with high gloss combined with excellent calendered white sack kraft paper. We offer strength properties. With an optimal print quality excellent strength and runnability properties with our customers can achieve maximum brand the next level of printability in sack kraft paper. recognition for demanding goods. Customer demands Products Products • High tensile value • High smoothness • Excellent sheet formation Advantage Kraft White Advantage Smooth White Strong • High TEA value • High gloss • Optimised surface roughness • High porosity and topography Advantage Semi Extensible White Advantage Smooth White Gloss • Excellent runnability • No dusting • Optimised stiffness • No mottling defect Advantage Kraft White Print*

Advantage Semi Extensible White Print*

PM7 has the right solution

Top former allows better formation Top former and shoe calender The top former ensures even of softwood pulp for excellent ensure high smoothness. formation and proﬁ les. The shoe strength properties. calender ensures even surface roughness and topography and therefore no mottling at high gloss.

* shoe-calendered grade

4 5 www.mondigroup.com www.mondigroup.com Sensational features for a broad range of applications. Sustainable. Every day.

PM7 – product range Mondi’s PM7 has a favourable

4 environmental impact

1 Industrial bags PM7 will have a positive environmental 2 Carrier bags impact in many respects.

3 Consumer bags The greatest beneﬁ ts lie in the integration of pulp

4 Protective packaging to paper without the intermediate steps of drying and transporting the pulp. Integrating Mondi’s pulp-to-PM7 5 High-quality wrapping products avoids the consumption of energy and the associated waste, air and water emissions. 6 Ream wrap 2 3 7 Coatings & laminates 1 Sustainability lies at the very heart of PM7, as reﬂ ected in an integrated management system for the production facility, certiﬁ ed by the reputable independent third party Bureau Veritas.

5 PM7’s environmental credentials The project will save 6 7 • The plant’s environmental credentials are under- • More than 250 tonnes of air emissions a year (NOx, scored by pulp production and bleaching in an SOx, dust and other constituents) as well as elemental chlorine free (ECF) process, utilising • 2 million cubic metres of fresh water, and the subse- Buyer’s guide PEFCTM-certiﬁ ed wood. quent treatment of 250 tonnes of organic water

Grammage Open High- • Chemicals used in producing the paper will be non- pollutants. Industrial Carrier Consumer Protective Ream Coatings & range mouth quality bags bags bags packaging wrap laminates toxic and comply with all current EU regulations. (g/m2) bags wrapping • All waste products created during paper production The project will help to reduce Advantage 70–90 will be internally recycled. • CO emissions, including those attributable to trans- Kraft White • • 2 • Moreover, all waste water output is to be treated in portation, by around 16,000 tonnes and Advantage Semi 70–90 the local waste water treatment plant. • Shipping mileage by more than 0.5 million km a year. Extensible White •

SACK Advantage Kraft KRAFT 70–90 White Print* • •

Advantage Semi 70–90 Extensible White Print* •

Advantage Smooth 50–120 White Strong • • • • • • For more information, scan this QR code or visit Advantage Smooth KRAFT 50–120 White Gloss www.mondigroup.com/gogreen SPECIALITY • • • • • •

* shoe-calendered grade

6 7 www.mondigroup.com www.mondigroup.com 27 March 2014, 5:50 a.m.: celebrating the ﬁ rst jumbo roll made on PM7 2

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