This investment is part of the development plan designed to increase production capacity and improve quality to supply current parent reels market, both in virgin and in deinked pulp reels. The present TM5 is equipped with a suction breast former and sloped wire configuration, double press section and cast iron Yankee of 4,500 mm diameter. The max actual operating speed is 1,370 m/min with a drying capacity of 101 t/d.

In order to produce grades with lower basis weight than today Toscotec will supply a stock preparation upgrading together with the entire engineering, a fully hydraulic step diffuser headbox TT Headbox SL-T and the complete replacement of the wet-end section into the Crescent Former configuration.

The purpose is to get further benefits as well as increase tissue machine operating speed up to 1,500 m/min
initially, reduce electrical power consumption, improve formation quality and improve MD/CD ratio.