Kadant Inc. has confirmed that its Chinese subsidiary has started up new fibre processing lines at Shandong Hechuang Paper’s facility in Linyi, China, and Lee & Man’s mill in Malaysia.
The new system installed at Shandong Hechuang Paper is a 650 BDMT per day OCC line designed to efficiently produce high-quality containerboard. The new pulping system for Lee & Man’s PM26 in Malaysia features Kadant Foundations fibre processing product line with advanced technologies enabling the mill to yield high quality stock with reduced energy consumption. It is the fourth recycled containerboard machine installed at the facility using Kadant’s fibre process technologies.