| The Paperboards & Specialty
Papers Division came into existence in November 2002
with the amalgamation of ITC Bhadrachalam Paperboards
Ltd. with ITC Ltd. and incorporates Tribeni Tissues.
ITC entered the field of paperboards in 1975 when
it incorporated Bhadrachalam Paperboards Ltd. The
new company was setup as a integrated pulp/board manufacturing
facility and commenced operations at Bhadrachalam
in Andhra Pradesh, 300 km east of Hyderabad. The Bhadrachalam
mill today produces 210,000 TPY of papers & boards
and is the largest single location mill in India.
The mill is focused on producing paperboards for packaging
and graphics segments and product range includes Cyber
XLPac (folding box boards), Pearl/Saphire Graphik
(solid bleached boards) high value boards apart from
the Ecoviron range of recycled boards. The mill also
makes liquid packaging boards for Tetrapak in India.
Very recently (Sep 2002) the Bhadrachalam mill also
commissioned India’s only Elemental Chlorine
Free pulp mill with a capacity of 100,000 tonnes a
year. This location will also see the commissioning
of a 80,000 TPY board machine from Voith by June 2004.
The Bhadrachalam location today has two board machines
and two smaller paper machines. The unit is ISO 9002:1994
certified and is upgrading to ISO 9001:2000 series.
The unit is also ISO 14001 certified for Environment
Management Systems.
The Tribeni Tissues unit has a hoary history and traces
its founding to British American Tobacco and commenced
operations in 1949 manufacturing papers for the cigarette
industry. Between 1961 & 1988 Tribeni was part of
the Wiggins Teape Co. of the UK. It merged with ITC
Ltd. in 1992. ITC Ltd. modernized the mill with an investment
of USD 35m and refurbished two of the paper machines
with latest drives and electronic controls. The Tribeni
mill has a capacity of 33,000 TPY and has expanded its
product range beyond cigarette tissues to fine papers,
packaging papers and specialties. The unit now has three
paper machines making a stunningly diverse range of
papers from cigarette tissues and components, laminating
base tissue, acid free and anti rust tissues, low grammage
printing papers, décor papers to insulation grade
and medical grade papers. The unit is ISO 9001 accredited.
The third manufacturing location at
Bollarum near Hyderabad produces 5000 TPY of Cast
Coated Papers and Boards, 10,000 TPY of Poly Extrusion
coated boards, C2S art boards and Ivory cards. The
unit is ISO 9001:2000 series accredited.
Unit Kovai
 The
erstwhile BIPCO Mill was acquired by ITC in March,
2004. The Mill is located at Thekkampatti Village,
near Mettupalayam in Coimbatore District of Tamil
Nadu and renamed as Unit Kovai. The new unit began
commercial production immediately and will soon reach
its installed capacity of 65,000 TPA.
The Paper Machine is fitted with a 3 - Ply multifourdriner
wire section with MG cylinder, Size press, two top
coaters and one back coater.
It also is fitted with the Siemens DCS System and
the QCS system is from Measurex. The machine capabilities
will help ITC to maintain its leadership in the recycled
boards segments.
The Finishing House is equipped with Winders and Sheeters
from Jagenberg and Pasaban.
The product range has already been enhanced with the
introduction of a high bulk and stiffness, GD2 quality
Grey Back Board.
The Division is the market leader in South Asia in
carton boards and ranks second in turnover within
the Indian paper industry. We provide paperboard for
most leading Fast Moving Consumer Goods Brands in
India. We are the largest Exporter of coated boards
from India, about 20% of our product supplied to the
international markets in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,
Iran, Australia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UK,
Greece, Germany and USA.
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