Merebank East, Bluff, South Africa
The Mondi Merebank Mill produces a range of office paper including the premium South African brand, Mondi Rotatrim. Mondi Shanduka Newsprint (MSN) is also housed in Merebank, and produces newsprint and telephone directory paper, primarily for the South African market. The mill recently commissioned a new state-of-the-art paper machine (PM31) . This project has enabled the mill to generate an additional 265 000 tons a year of mostly A4 office paper, destined for export markets. Tied in with the PM31 project is a new 14 pocket A4 cutting line, one of the world's largest and fastest in operation. It has a daily capacity of 600 tons and produces up to 210 reams per minute. All the investments connected with the PM31 projects also contributed to further improvements in environmental performance at the mill, as a result of the advanced technology used throughout. New equipment includes a flue gas desulphurisation plant and a biomass fired multifuel boiler – these improvements ...