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USA<br />
On October 6, 1998 <strong>Voith</strong> Sulzer <strong>Paper</strong><br />
Technology opened a new service center<br />
in Farmington, New Hampshire.<br />
This modern building complex includes<br />
about 3500 m2 of shop floors and offices.<br />
The entire range of services will be provided<br />
here, initially by a highly trained<br />
team of twenty. All the special machines<br />
required for roll trimming, renewal and<br />
balancing are available at this center, in<br />
which more than 7 million USA dollars<br />
have been invested.<br />
The new Farmington service center will<br />
provide competent local support for the<br />
paper and pulp industries in the northeast<br />
USA and eastern Canada.<br />
A public “open day” was held to celebrate<br />
the inauguration of this service center,<br />
the latest of nineteen.<br />
Guests of honour included Jeanne Shaheen,<br />
Governor of New Hampshire. She<br />
paid tribute in her address to <strong>Voith</strong> Sulzer<br />
Papier Technology’s commitment to job<br />
security and creation in this region. Chris<br />
Turner, manager of the new service cen-<br />
Chris Turner (left) and Ray Hall (right)<br />
talking with Jeanne Shaheen, Governor of<br />
New Hampshire.<br />
ter, pointed out how well cooperation had<br />
already started with the local paper and<br />
pulp industry. If demand continued to<br />
rise in this way, plans for plant expansion<br />
and doubling up the team would soon be<br />
put into practice.<br />
Great attention has been paid at this<br />
new center to exemplary environmental<br />
compatibility. Clean and efficient energy<br />
utilization is just as much a part of this<br />
concept as loopwater recycling.<br />
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Sweden<br />
Summer 1998 marked the acquisition of<br />
Lessebo Valssliperi AB, one of Scandinavia’s<br />
leading roll trimming specialists.<br />
Founded decades ago, this company has<br />
a highly experienced team of specialists<br />
with first class equipment – including the<br />
world’s largest trimming machine for<br />
rolls up to 14 m long and 2.5 m diameter.<br />
Services here range from roll trimming<br />
and super-finishing to dynamic balancing.<br />
Activities will be expanded in future<br />
to include on-site servicing and own<br />
spare parts manufacturing facilities.<br />
Reinhard Müller, head of our European<br />
Service Division, sums up as follows:<br />
“We now have an excellent base in<br />
Lessebo for serving not only customers<br />
in Sweden. In future, the whole of Scandinavia<br />
will benefit from the local service<br />
and support for which <strong>Voith</strong> Sulzer <strong>Paper</strong><br />
Technology is so renowned”.
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