"We are excited to work with Lee & Man in this project, supporting their environmental targets. Our Advantage Visco Nip press is specially designed for very high linear loads which combined with a cast alloy Yankee cylinder makes it possible to increase the paper dryness after press and reach significant drying energy savings," says Svenerik Olsson, Director, Tissue Mills Business Unit, Valmet China.

The new tissue machine will have a width of 5.6 m and a design speed of 2,000 m/min. It will produce 60,000 t/y of toilet and facial tissue, using virgin wood pulp and bleached bamboo fiber as raw material.
Valmet's scope of delivery will comprise a complete tissue production line featuring stock preparation systems and an Advantage DCT 200HS tissue machine. The machine will be equipped with an OptiFlo headbox and a cast alloy Yankee cylinder. It will also be featured with the well proven Advantage tissue technology including ViscoNip press, a steam heated AirCap hood, WetDust dust system and a SoftReel P reel. Basic engineering, installation supervision, training, start-up and commissioning are also included in the delivery. The delivery will also include an automation package from Metso with Metso DCS and QCS process control system.

The start-up is planned to be in late 2015.