Feb 06, 2012. /Lesprom Network/. PMT Italia S.p.A supplied, installed and started up a SMARNIP® Shoe Press at Cartiera del Chiese S.p.A. – Montichiari mill in Italy. The SMARNIP® Shoe Press was selected in order to optimise the production of smooth and semi-extensible sack kraft paper aiming production increase and quality improvement, as the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network. Also in this case the modularity and the compactness of the SMARNIP® Shoe Press resulted to be the key factor in applying the shoe press technology in a Press section rebuild, also improving the geometry of the first dryer group. On January the SMARNIP® has been started up and the paper machine is now in its optimisation phase. The SMARNIP® will achieve, thanks to its flexibility, the right balance among dry content after press, density, porosity and other typical sack kraft peculiarities.