Vinda Household Paper (China) Co., a subsidiary of Golden Eagle Group (part of the RGE Group), has signed a contract with Baotuo Paper Machinery — a subsidiary of Baosuo Group — for six BC1800-3490 high-speed Crescent Former tissue machines, as part of its Phase III capacity expansion project in Hubei Xiaogan.
The Phase III project targets an annual production capacity of 320,000 tonnes of tissue paper. The six newly contracted machines are each equipped with 18-foot ultra-large Yankee dryers, with a design speed of 1,800 m/min, a paper width of 3,490 mm, and an individual annual capacity of 30,000 tonnes.
This is the fourth collaboration between Golden Eagle Group and Baosuo Group, following joint projects in Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Shandong. The latest agreement brings the cumulative total of Crescent Former tissue machines contracted between the two groups to 18 units.
RGE (Royal Golden Eagle), founded by Sukanto Tanoto in 1973, is a resource-based manufacturing group with operations in Indonesia, China, Brazil, Spain, and Canada, and a workforce of more than 80,000. Its business portfolio spans pulp and paper (APRIL, Asia Symbol, Vinda), palm oil (Asian Agri, Apical), dissolving pulp (Bracell), viscose fibre (Sateri, Asia Pacific Rayon), and energy (Pacific Energy).