Progroup starts construction of containerboard mill with an annual capacity of 750,000 tonnes in Germany. The plant owner and operator is the Landau (Rhineland Palatinate) based Progroup AG and at Sandersdorf-Brehna the Group is now building its third paper factory which will increase its total annual production of container board to 1.85 million tonnes. With an overall investment of Euro 375 million the new project will create 140 jobs directly and up to a further 350 jobs indirectly, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

Jürgen Heindl, CEO and Chairman of Progroup AG says: “We are systematically pursuing our Green Hightech Philosophy with this project; and with the environment at the forefront of our minds we are consciously investing in state-of-the-art equipment.”

The new paper factory is being built on a construction site covering an area of 450,000 square metres. As well as the new paper machine, which is to be built by the globally active machine-builder Voith Paper, a second stage of the project will also include the construction of an RDF power plant which will use its energy-efficient design to supply the new high-performance paper machine with power and steam, thus largely freeing the paper factory from its dependence on fossil fuels. The impurities contained in recovered paper will be converted into heat in the site‘s own RDF power plant. Lastly, the paper factory will be equipped with an optimised water system and the company will invest in ultra-modern wastewater treatment.

With the new paper mill in Sandersdorf-Brehna Progroup AG is underpinning its positon as Europe’s fastest organically growing containerboard and corrugated board manufacturer. As much as 85% of the containerboard manufactured in its own plants is consumed in the ten corrugated sheet board factories it currently owns in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Poland, Great Britain and Italy.

 

Source: lesprom.com

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