SCA to rebuild containerboard mill
May 31 2011 SCA is set to stop its sole recycled containerboard machine at the Witzenhausen mill in Germany, from June 20 till July 7, due to a rebuild, RISI reports.
The planned rebuild will halt the Witzenhausen mill during 17 days. The mill, built in 1975, has one 7.4 meters wide fourdrinier machine with a capacity of 330,000 tons per year.In 2008, Witzenhausen mill started up a new CHP plant, converting waste to energy and reducing CO2 emissions. In 2007, the pre-drier section of the machine line was rebuilt.SCA has six manufacturing containerboard mills – Munksund and Obbola virgin fiber mills in northern Sweden, and four recycled fiber mills (Lucca, Italy, De Hoop, The Netherlands, and Aschaffenburg and Witzenhausen, Germany) - plus a joint-venture in Turkey.
