APP CHINA TO BUILD GREENFIELD BOARD MILL

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APP China has unveiled plans to build a pulp and board mill at a greenfleld site in Qingzhou city,Guangxi province.The location is around 300 km north of the group's 1 million-tonne/yr pulp mill on Hainan Island.The group's subsidiary,Guangxi Jingui Pulp & Paper,is spearheading the project,which includes a 300,000-tonne/yr bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp line and 600,000 tonnes/yr of cartonboard capacity.An APP China spokesperson said the company aims to install either one 600,000-tonne/yr cartonboard machine,or two PMs with a similar total capacity,and that it has not yet decided what cartonboard grades will be produced.But the firm is keen to make beverage packaging.