Valmet will deliver a pulp cooking plant to Siam Cellulose's Ban Pong pulp mill in Ratchaburi, Thailand. The mill will produce 70,000 ton per year of eucalyptus pulp, and the start-up of the new cooking plant is scheduled to be in December 2016.

Valmet to supply a pulp cooking plant to Siam Cellulose's Ban Pong mill in Thailand

13:03 / October 29, 2015

Oct 29, 2015. /Lesprom Network/. Valmet will deliver a pulp cooking plant to Siam Cellulose's Ban Pong pulp mill in Ratchaburi, Thailand. The mill will produce 70,000 ton per year of eucalyptus pulp, and the start-up of the new cooking plant is scheduled to be in December 2016, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

"This will be our third cooking system from Valmet within 5 years, and after this Ban Pong installation, all our pulp production units in Thailand will have the same CompactCooking G2 system. The efficient utilization of raw material is vital from sustainability perspective and the pulp properties are excellent for our paper and packaging products," says Surasak Amawat, Managing Director, at Siam Cellulose Co., Ltd.

Siam Cellulose is a subsidiary of SCG Packaging and a leading producer of eucalyptus based pulp.

Valmet is the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries.

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Valmet to supply a pulp cooking plant to Siam Cellulose's Ban Pong mill in Thailand

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