Welcome to Zărnești Paper Mill
Take the Virtual Tour
Follow the papermaking process from our quality hub to dispatch, learn how all the machines work, and meet the people that make it all possible.
What you can see on the tour:
- Raw materials Recycling quality hub – learn about our rigorous quality checks and standards when paper arrives at the mill
- Stockyard - find out how we pick the perfect blend of fibres to make our high-quality papers
- Pulper – this is where we process fibres ready for our papermaking machines
- Paper machine – discover how pulp is turned into paper
- Warehouse – see where we store our paper
- Dispatch – Now our paper is ready to head off to our packaging plants all over Europe, ready to be turned back into new products
About Zărnești Paper Mill
Products
- Liner 1
- Liner 3
- Wellenstoff
- Wellenstoff HP
Machinery
PM1 TWO LAYER MACHINE
| Grammage range: | 80-175 g/m2 |
| Production: | 200,000 tonnes/year |
| Speed max: | 1,150 m/min |
| Trim max: | 5.39 m |
Milestones
- 1852
The foundations of the paper mill were laid. Twelve types of paper were manufactured, including writing and printing paper, coloured paper, cigarette and wrapping paper. - 1980
Capacity increased for the production of corrugated board to 40,000 tonnes/year, using wastepaper as the main raw material. - 2001
Capacity increased for the production of corrugated board to 80,000 tonnes/year. - 2002
The company is renamed S.C. Ecopaper S.A. - 2018
The company is acquired by DS Smith.
- 2018
Paper Machine 1 installed. - 2020
Paper Machine 1 upgraded, increasing speed and efficiency. - 2020
Integrated quality management standards achieved, including ISO9001, ISO45001 and ISO50001. - 2020
Rental AD reactor start up, reducing environmental risks. - 2022
Two anaerobic reactors installed in WWTP, allowing us to increase our production capacity.