TNPL's mega packaging board unit to go on stream by year end.

One of the largest greenfield projects in packaging board will go on stream in Tamil Nadu when Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd. commissions its two-lakh-tonne a year factory by the year end.

Construction of the Rs. 1,500-crore plant, located in an industrially backward area in Tiruchi district, started last April and company officials are confident that by December the equipment will be fully set up and trial production started.

Installing of equipment started in January, a full month ahead of schedule. The first boiler of the factory’s 30 MW coal-based power plant will start generating power in July and the second by August - well on time to power the board machine when it starts churning out the finished product by the year-end.

The four-layer board machine and stock preparation machine are one of the latest of its kind supplied by Voith, Germany; Pesmel of Finland has supplied the automatic storage and retrieval system with a 30,000 tonnes storage capacity for reels and 10,000 tonnes of final product, sheets. TNPL is a Rs. 2,300-crore company making about 4 lakh tonnes of printing and writing paper annually. With the new factory, it will enter a fast growing segment within the paper sector.


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