Betamet

 

The contract includes the marking, documentation, dismantling, and packing of the parts and equipment of the Kangas Paper Mill paper machine operated in Jyväskylä.

 

The machine, introduced in 1947 and rebuilt in 1990 and 2002, produced coated magazine paper. After the production had come to an end, M-real stored it to its current location. Now, the paper machine is being dismantled to be reassembled in the chinese factory Guangxi Tianyi Paper Co. Ltd in China. There, the machine will produce paper with a square weight greater than before.

 

The contract covers all equipment of the paper production line, except for the coating kitchen shared with the second production line. It belongs to the previous owner, Sappi Limited. The electric equipment and cables will also be disassembled.

 

The width of the paper web of the machine to be dismantled is 3.4 metres. The width of the machine is about 6 metres and the height  9 metres in total. The length of all the lines is 120 metres. In addition, the line includes big basins with a capacity varying between 10 and 500 cubic metres.

 

– There are about 10 800 cubic metres to be dismantled altogether. The items are packed into 180 sea containers. The cubic capacity of a fairly large house is 500 cubic metres, so the amount of items will exceed that of the capacity of 20 houses, calculates Mr Timo Kärki, the managing director of  Betamet Service Oy who is resposible for the project.

 

The journey from the Kangas Mill to the destination takes about  6–8 weeks with customs clearances and shipments.

 

The containers are packed as tightly as possible. The parts are tied so that the containers can be tilted even by 45 degrees, but the parts will still be held in place. The boxes and load binding ropes are used as an aid for packing. The bulk goods are packed into boxes, and the big parts are supported by the walls of a container.

– In packing, we use heat-treated, so called larva-free wood a lot. It has been heated in an oven at a heat greater than 65 degrees for a minimum of 48 hours.

 

Dismantling the machine is very difficult and expensive without proper marking and systematic documentation. Marking is performed in three different ways: the parts are marked with well-enduring drawing ink pens, and a label is attached to the parts, and all the parts are photographed before being dismantled.

 

– Photos are of great importance when the end customer uses different graphic symbols than we do. A picture tells them more than a thousand words, Mr. Kärki points out.

 

Marking begins three weeks before dismantling, and it is continued over the course of dismantling. Marking takes up about 15 per cent of the total work. The process of dismantling and packing takes up nearly five months in total. There are about 50 people at work.