Spanish recycling company SAICA will exhibit their new containerboard mill at the Recycling and Waste Management (RWM) exhibition in September. The mill, which first opened in January, is located in Partington, Manchester and recycles recovered paper, newsprint and card into performance papers for corrugated packaging. It is the first containerboard mill to be built in the UK for several generations.
With the capacity to process 450,000 tonnes of recovered fibre per year – material that otherwise would be exported – the Paper Machine 11 (PM11) is the centrepiece of the mill and produces recycled paper at speeds of up to 1,500 metres per minute, totalling 400,000 tonnes of paper per year.
“RWM is one of the leading exhibitions for the waste resources industry in the UK, so it makes sense for SAICA to be there”, said SAICA representative Kevin Whitmore.
The PM11 will be exhibited with a video showing it’s construction process and details at stand 17E44 at the NEC in Birmingham as part of the RWM exhibition from 11-13 September 2012.
For more information on the exhibit, visit the RWM 2012 website.
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