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COLOR
FOR
ALL
SCA TISSUE’S new Xpressnap®
Tabletop dispenser now comes
in 10 colors. John Riley, category
director of Tabletop, says the new
range of colors has made these
dispensers particularly appealing
to schools and teams. “They
can fi nd an Xpressnap Tabletop
in their colors. Whether orange
for the Syracuse Orangemen, blue
for the Duke Blue Devils or a team
color for a local high school, SCA
has a color that works for them.”
The AD-a-Glance feature of
the dispensers is an added bonus.
“With AD-a-Glance, the school
can print their school, team or
mascot on the insert and the dispenser
is immediately customized
for them,” Riley says.
Xpressnap is a unique product
that promises customers a 25 percent
decrease in napkin use due
to its one-at-a-time dispensing
technology. Customers also touch
only the napkins they take, keeping
the process far more hygienic
than other systems.
SCA INSIDE
MILL IN
ORTVIKEN WILL GROW
SCA IS EXPANDING production
of mechanical pulp at Ortviken
paper mill. The sek 800 million
investment will allow paper production
at Ortviken to continue to increase,
while providing signifi cant
quality improvements.
“Through our newly established
agreement with the Norwegian energy
company Statkraft, we have now
secured a long-term supply of electricity
at a very competitive price that allows
for this investment,” says Kenneth
Eriksson, president of sca Forest
Products. “Since our most recent paper
machine went into operation in
1995 we have increased production
by almost 50 percent through fi ne tuning
and investments to eliminate bottlenecks.
We have now reached a level
where pulp production is restricting
the mill’s continued development.”
The major items in the investment
are new refi ners with high capacity. It
is in the refi neries that the raw mate-
rial, fresh spruce pulpwood, is ground
to pulp. But the investment also involves
separating pulp production
and customizing it for the different
paper grades.
“Our present pulp mill produces
pulp for all our four paper machines,”
Eriksson says. “This means we must
prepare the pulp in different ways, depending
on whether we are producing
newsprint or coated publication
papers.”
With the new investment, the mill
will be able to prepare the pulp from
the outset for the product for which
it will be used. “This will lead to improved
product quality but also means
that we will save money and other resources
by doing it right from the start
instead of preparing the fi nished pulp
for each application,” Eriksson says.
Work on implementing this investment
will start immediately. The new
equipment is scheduled to be in operation
by spring 2009.
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