Study Tour 3 | Paper and Pulp Industry

Industrial Visit Report

(Century Paper & Board Mills Limited)

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

Prepared by
Osama Hasan
ChE-01-A
2008-NUST-BE-CHEM-27
School of Chemical and Materials Engineering (SCME)
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)

November 2010
Visit Brief:
Visit: 03
Industry: Paper and Pulp Industry
Company: Century Paper & Board Mills Limited
Location: Multan Road, Lahore
Date: October 28, 2010
Departure: 0530 hours
Return: 2200 hours
Faculty 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.

Products
1. Coated Brand 2. MF Paper
 Century (Bleached Board)  Hi-Brite
 Elegant (Bleached Board)  Impressions
 Captain  Pearl
 7-Star  Royal
 Polo  Scholar
3. Corrugated Boxes  Graduate
4. Uncoated Brand 5. MG Paper
 Ascot  IBIS
 Simplicity  Dove
 Guard (Liner)  Atlas
Production Brief:
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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.

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 Production Department Divided Details

Section Job Duty / Break up Output Use

Chemical Utility Sodium sulfite plant Sodium sulfite Cooking House:
House Sodium hypo chloride plant Cooking of Wheat Straw
and Bagasse
Sodium hypo Bleaching House:
chloride Bleaching of Pulp
Cooking Pulp Straw Plant Pulp Input for Bleaching House
House Preparation Wheat Straw Cooking Plant
Bleaching Pulp Pulp Washing Clean and Input for Stock
House Finishing Pulp Bleaching Bleached Pulp Preparation Plant
Stock Product Waste Paper Treatment (3) Treated Paper Input for Machine Hall, to
Preparation Preparation Wood Pulp Refining (6) Refined Pulp convert to paper / board
Plant sheets
Machine Product Paper Machines (3) Paper
As per customer need
Hall Making Board Machines (3) Board
Coating Product Enhance the quality and to Furnished To be sold out /
Plant Furnishing give an extra shine to the Product consumed with the
paper or board Lakson Group
Box 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.