Metso to supply process automation to Aylesford
March 12 2010 Aylesford Newsprint Ltd in Aylesford, Kent, England, has awarded a contract to Metso for the supply and commissioning of a new process automation system for installation on the mill's PM14 newsprint machine.
The scope of supply is for a metsoDNA distributed control system and includes hardware, applications software, project management and commissioning. The new system will replace an older technology system that was installed when the PM14 was originally built in 1995.Aylesford Newsprint recycles 500,000 tons per annum of used newspapers and magazines in the manufacture of Renaissance, which is a publishing quality newsprint used by many of the UK's and Europe’s regional and national newspaper publishers.Aylesford Newsprint is a joint venture company between SCA and Mondi.