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BILT installs India’s largest cut-size line to date

Hamburg / Sheboygan / New Delhi, November 20, 2009 – India’s leading paper manufacturer Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT), part of Avantha Group, has commissioned the country’s largest-ever cut-size line.
November 24, 2009 | By the IPP Desk based on a press release

The German/US made cut-size sheeting and packaging line installed at the Sewa mill in Orissa is now the widest in the Indian paper industry. It is able to produce A4 and A3 sheets. BILT Chief Operating Officer Yogesh Agarwal said the line further expanded BILT’s strong position as the Indian market leader in the domestic market for the manufacture of writing and printing paper. “The newline will enable BILT to meet the internationally applicable quality standards for communication paper that are valid today and into the future,” he said.

The delivered 10 pocket cut size sheeter is currently the widest in the Indian paper industry

The10-pocket cut-size line was manufactured by ECH Will and Pemco, two companies of the Körber PaperLink (KPL) Group. It is the third cut-size paper line BILT has acquired from the two KPL companies.

The line consists of a SLK 490 10-pocket cut-size sheeter with five shaftless unwind stands from ECH Will and an inline packaging line from Pemco. The packaging line includes a Model 33 ream wrapper – using Pemco’s latest packaging technology – a Model 124 ream inspector, a Model 137 stacker/accumulator and a Model 162 casepacker/lidder.

The new cut-size line represents another investment in automation for BILT. “Our long-standing business relations with ECH Will and Pemco and their Indian agent, Arjun Technologies, give us great confidence that their proven technology grants us outstanding investment security,” Yogesh Agarwal said.