Oct 15, 2013. /Lesprom Network/. The management of Hamburger Rieger has now taken the final decision to substantially invest in the expansion of its top-quality white CCM production. With a total investment of Euro 18 million, paper machine # 1 in Spremberg, Germany, will be converted for the production of coated WTTestliner (containerboard). The conversion of this machine will be carried out towards the end of 2014, with a start-up (and the ability to produce coated testliners in Spremberg) at the beginning of 2015, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

As a result this conversion will allow the production of coated testliners in widths up to 280 cm. Hamburger

Rieger’s second plant in Trostberg, Germany, will continue to expand the production of specialized coated papers, especially for preprint.

The investment is part of the strategy of Hamburger Containerboard to expand its total production potential in the white market (white top testliner coated and uncoated) in the medium-term from the current 450,000 tons to 750,000 tons.

Hamburger Containerboard is a division of the Austrian Prinzhorn Holding. With a total annual production capacity of 1.7 million tonnes of containerboard, Hamburger Containerboard ranks among the market leaders in this market in Europe.