TNPL to Come Up with 200,000 TPA Packaging Board Plant

“The quality of our paper board is well-accepted in the Domestic & Overseas Markets. Seeing the rising demand for our Paper Board, we have decided to come up with one more packaging board line soon,” says Mr. SVR Krishnan, Executive Director, Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd.

Today, bagasse has established itself as a well-known fibrous raw material for the Pulp and Paper industry. However, the situation was not always the same. Although the industry had recognized the advantages of bagasse long ago, setting up a newsprint manufacturing facility using bagasse was considered a high-risk and the project was not very successful commercially. However, Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd., (TNPL) took up the challenge of making Newsprint using bagasse as the primary raw material and became India's first bagasse-based Paper Mill at that point in time.

The Bagasse pulping facility was commissioned by TNPL in 1985. Over the years, it has perfected pulping technology, right from its storage to preservation of quality. Starting with an initial capacity of 90,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) on a single Paper Machine to producing 6,00,000 TPA of Paper & Board, and serving 60 countries, TNPL has come a long way.

TNPLMill Expansion Plan

Recently, the company took up a Mill Expansion Plan (MEP) at Mondipatti in Tiruchirapalli which is to be implemented in two phases. The first phase of the project, covering the installation of a modern Hardwood ECF Pulp Mill along with a Chemical Recovery Island, has commenced trial production. Sharing the details about the expansion plan with Paper Mart, Mr. SVR Krishnan, Executive Director(Operations), Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd., says, “We commissioned the Hardwood Fiberline with a capacity of 400 TPD and a Chemical Recovery Boiler with a capacity of 950 TPD. All the Machineries have been procured from