Mitsubishi HiTec Paper continues Bielefeld investment

Mitsubishi HiTec Paper Europe is installing five large recooling plants and two high efficient speed controlled screw chillers as part of an investment in a new process refrigeration system for two coating machines at its Bielefeld, Germany site.

Mitsubishi HiTec Paper Europe is installing five large recooling plants and two high efficient speed controlled screw chillers as part of an investment in a new process refrigeration system for two coating machines at its Bielefeld, Germany site

The five large recooling plants – the two largest are over 12m long – are part of a new process refrigeration unit for two of the speciality paper manufacturer’s coating machines. The two new chillers are needed to cool the process water in the system circuits.

It is expected that they will help to provide future electricity savings of about one million kWh, which is roughly equivalent to the annual consumption of 200 single family homes.

Gerd Finkenhofer, Mitsubishi HiTec Paper Europe energy manager, said: ‘This is only the first step of a consistent system optimization here at the site. A further 800,000 EUR (678,000 USD) will be invested in 20 decentralized climate and refrigeration units immediately after this. This will bring a further electricity saving of 500,000 kWh per year.’

In addition to investing in climate and environmental technology, Mitsubishi HiTec Paper is focusing on the optimization of production technology in Bielefeld.

Mitsubishi HiTec Paper Europe managing director Gerhard Schoon said: ‘Later this summer we will invest a further 3.2 million EUR in our state of the art coating machine No. 3, which is the fastest production machine in the thermal paper sector in the world today.

‘Objectives of the investment are, in addition to quality and productivity improvements, a more flexible use of the highly modern coating system with different product ranges.’

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