The official opening ceremony of a modernized cardboard machine took place at the Alexinsky Paper and Cardboard Factory in the Tula region on the 22nd of March 2018. The total investment in the project amounted to 2.5 billion rubles.
As an end-result the capacity of the mill will be doubled from 60 to 120 thousand tons per year. Rebuild of the cardboard machine will improve quality indicators and expand the range of paper products produced by the company from waste paper.
Alexinskaya Paper and Cardboard Factory is a part of SFT Group and assumed as one of the leaders in its segment. The company is implementing program for the reconstruction and modernization of the entire process chain: within the framework of it, in 2018, a project for the construction of new corrugated plant with production volume of 310 million m2 per year will be started on the factory site to produce corrugated packaging for consumer goods. The launch of the enterprise will provide an additional 300 new workplaces. The total investment for the construction and equipping of the corrugated plant project is 4 billion rubles.
On behalf of SFT Group, Alexinskaya Paper and Cardboard Factory expressed its sincere gratitude to KAUKO International-RUS for the technical literacy, high organization, responsible attitude and efficiency; the qualities that the company’s employees showed during the implementation of a complex and significant investment project for the modernization of the cardboard machine.
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