Study Tour 3 | Paper and Pulp Industry

Industrial Visit Report(Century Paper & Board Mills Limited)

Prepared forDepartment of Chemical Engineering

School of Chemical and Materials Engineering (SCME)National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)

Prepared byOsama Hasan

ChE-01-A2008-NUST-BE-CHEM-27

School of Chemical and Materials Engineering (SCME)National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)

November 2010

Visit Brief:Visit: 03Industry: Paper and Pulp IndustryCompany: Century Paper & Board Mills LimitedLocation: Multan Road, LahoreDate: October 28, 2010Departure: 0530 hoursReturn: 2200 hoursFaculty Coordinators: Muhammad Waqas Anjum

Shahid Hussain Ansari

Company Profile: Century Paper & Board Mills Limited (CPBM), established in 1984, was listed at the

Karachi Stock Exchange in 1990 as a flagship company of the Lakson Group. The company has manifested itself as a quality producer of packaging paperboard and

has attained a position of preferred supplier among its customers. The company maintains strategic business relationships with leading packaging and converting organizations.

Located at 62 Km, Lahore – Multan Highway N-5, Distt. Kasur, the company maintains a fully integrated pulp and paper mill with all the necessary support systems.

CPBM is managed by a competent team of professionals in all the relevant fields like process & paper technology, engineering, finance and business management as well as human resource. More than 60 engineers of different disciplines are currently working at its mills with well-trained subsequent tiers of supervisors and operators. Human resource asset comprises of 1600 + personnel.

Products1. Coated Brand

Century (Bleached Board) Elegant (Bleached Board) Captain 7-Star Polo

2. MF Paper Hi-Brite Impressions Pearl Royal Scholar Graduate3. Corrugated Boxes

4. Uncoated Brand Ascot Simplicity Guard (Liner)

5. MG Paper IBIS Dove Atlas

Production Brief: Century is a leading manufacturer of quality Paper and Board with a total rated installed

capacity of 230,000 tons per annum. The product mix includes Writing & Printing Paper, Poster Paper, both coated and un-

Coated Board in various grammages, sizes and form. The Mills comprises of 7 Paper and Board Machines out of which PM-3 & PM-6 are

designated for paper production whereas PM-1, 4, and 7 are essentially Board production machines with both off-line and on-line coating facilities.

The latest addition being the state of the art, environment friendly machine PM-7 based on recycled fiber, capable of producing 130,000 Tons/annum of premium quality Coated Packaging Board was commissioned in 2008.

The Mills also includes a Box Plant having a corrugation facility capable of an output in excess of 30 million M² sheets and 60 Million of corrugated containers of various sizes and weights, with up to 3-colour printing.

The corrugation facility shall be doubled in the first half of the current year 2009. PM-2 and 5 are exclusively engaged in producing quality liner and fluting for the Box

Plant. In 2008 the Mills embarked on an ambitious program of adopting the Oracle based

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for its operations such as Production, Supply Chain, Finance and Engineering. This is now in operation and started yielding results.

Paper & Board manufacturing, being a continuous process, essentially requires an uninterrupted supply of Electric Power. This is being met by two Captive Power Plants, CoGen-1 (12.3 MW) and CoGen-2 (22 MW), with a 5MW LESCO connection as stand-by..

CPBM is certified under ISO 9001: 2000 and ISO 14001: 2004. Simultaneously efforts are underway to achieve the OHSAS 18000: 2008 certification as well.

Production Break-up:Chem ical House

Cooking House

Bleaching House

Stock Preparation Plant

M achine Hall

Coating Plant

Production Department Divided Details

Section Job Duty / Break up Output UseChemical House

Utility Sodium sulfite plantSodium hypo chloride plant

Sodium sulfite Cooking House:Cooking of Wheat Straw and Bagasse

Sodium hypo chloride

Bleaching House: Bleaching of Pulp

Cooking House

Pulp Preparation

Straw PlantWheat Straw Cooking Plant

Pulp Input for Bleaching House

Bleaching House

Pulp Finishing

Pulp WashingPulp Bleaching

Clean and Bleached Pulp

Input for Stock Preparation Plant

Stock Preparation Plant

ProductPreparation

Waste Paper Treatment (3)Wood Pulp Refining (6)

Treated Paper Input for Machine Hall, to convert to paper / board sheets

Refined Pulp

Machine Hall

ProductMaking

Paper Machines (3)Board Machines (3)

Paper As per customer needBoard

Coating Plant

ProductFurnishing

Enhance the quality and to give an extra shine to the paper or board

Furnished Product

To be sold out / consumed with the

Lakson GroupBox Plant Box Making Box Production Three layers box As per customer need

Five layers box

Reflection: Visit to CPBM as an exposure to practical operation in industrial production was an

informative experience. The company operation was not as ideal as portrayed in briefing. Several sites had

leakages, pipelines rusted, and housekeeping improper. Briefing was too fast and too brief to develop a good understanding. Paper and pulp industry is not my bent of mind. I’ll prefer fertilizer or oil and gas sector.