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Stora Enso Fors commissions Andritz Küsters

Krefeld, 06 December 2007 – The Stora Enso Group has placed an order for a calender (Prime Cal Hard) with Multi-HV technology from Andritz Küsters GmbH for retrofitting the BM2 at the paper mill in Fors. The calender has a working width of approximately four meters and is designed for a production speed of up to 700 m/min. Depending on the paper produced the line force is adjustable from 10 …

 
 

HARALD SUTTOR appointed new Managing Director of Andritz Küsters
Graz/Krefeld, October 8, 2007. Harald Suttor was appointed as Managing Director of Andritz Küsters GmbH and as Manager of the Andritz Paper Finishing Division as of November 2007. Mr. Suttor succeeds Dr. Erich W. Bröker, who will leave the company in order to take on a new professional challenge. The Andritz AG Executive Board expresses its thanks to Dr. Bröker for his achievements for and his com …

 
 

Andritz Kuesters and YODOGAWA:
40 years of successful cooperation in Japan

Krefeld, 11. July 2007. For the past 40 years the Japanese steel manufacturer YODOGAWA has been successfully operating with Andritz Küsters rolls and calenders. In this space of time YODOGAWA has already delivered over 50 of these machines built under licence. Apart from underlining the good market position in Japan, the two latest orders - a calender for Nippon Paper and six Prime Roll MHV for Ho …

 
 

Flawless Debut

Mantova, May 6, 2007   Start up of the PrimeFeeder threading System at Burgo Group in Italy’s Mantova, “went decidedly well” according to the report of May 9, 2007, by Andreas Pesch and Bernhard Schmitz. As typical technicians, they both obviously tend to be modest, fact is that this indeed was a nearly perfect first performance for the new transfer belts.   “Twenty …

 
 

ANDRITZ KÜSTERS continue their success story:
Marchi-Burgo buys two calenders from the Krefeld enterprise

Krefeld – The Italian Marchi-Burgo Group has ordered two new calenders from ANDRITZ KÜSTERS. The single hard-nip and Mat-On-Line calenders will contribute to a marked improvement of the paper quality at two different locations. The single hard-nip calendar is to be delivered and commissioned around Christmas in the small Italian town of Toscolano at Lake Garda. Equipped with a Swimming Ro …

 
 

Eleven axles for Japan

06/2006 - Nippon Paper has ordered eleven Multi HV axles for the Multi-Nip calender of a new paper machine at the Ishi-nomaki Mill. Seven of these axles will be delivered by January 2007, and the four reserve axles are to arrive in the Land of the Rising Sun in May next year. With a diameter of 990 mm and a working width of 8850 mm, the rolls are of an impressive dimension. In Japan they will b …

 
 

Promising prospects
Küsters at the EXFOR 06 in Montreal

Krefeld, 07 February 2006 –The Montreal Convention Centre is in 2006 once more the stage for EXFOR. Paper makers, technologists and mechanical engineers from all over the world meet there from 06 to 10 February on the occasion of the annual ”International Paper Week” similar to the ZELLCHEMING which is taking place this June and also features a trade fair. As in the previo …

 
 

Extendable: Calender and Mat-On-Line Calender
for the Xinxiang Xinya Paper Group

Krefeld 10 Jan 2006 – The Xinxiang Xinya Paper Group has ordered just the key components for its new paper machine from abroad. This machine is to be erected in the Nanxinzhuang Village in Henan Province with a major share of local components. The rolls and calendars obviously are part of those components which demand special attention and is the reason why the order was placed at Küsters in …

 
 

Homecoming: Pratt Industries gets calender from Australia

Krefeld 10 Jan 2006 – The calender to be used by Pratt Industries at their home plant in Conyers (Georgia, USA) has already travelled a considerable distance. After its long journey from Australia to the USA and the retrofitting carried out by Küsters it is now to complement the “Conyers Campus”. There Pratt In-dustries is realising the concept of a “Millugator”, a co …

 
 

On schedule: Press remodelling at UMKA

Krefeld 10 Jan 2006 – The activities for remodelling the press section at the Serbian paper manufacturer are on schedule. The delivery of the hydraulic components is planned for March this year, the rolls and all other components will follow slightly later in April. Küsters Paper is delivering a complete X-Nip Shoe Press for the remodelling of the cardboard machine near the Serbian capita …