PM3 is a Voith suction breast roll machine from 1971. The machine features a paper trim width at the reel of 5.2 meters with a maximum running speed of 1,400 meters per minute before the rebuild. The target of the rebuild project was mainly to increase the machine speed to 2,000 meters per minute and to improve paper quality. The machine was upgraded by Italian companyToscotec.Toscotec’s scope of supply included a crescent former with a multilayered headbox, new felt run design in cantilevered solution, upgrade of the existing two presses configuration, new YD doctoring, tail threading system, full width turn up, and an advanced solution on winding operations. Toscotec also supplied the rebuild of the stock preparation plant.The project has been managed on a turn key basis by Toscotec providing also engineering services and erection.With this rebuild the machine in Mannheim will be one of the most modern conventional tissue machines in Europe, featuring technology that will allow to reduce energy and fiber consumption and to produce high quality soft tissue.