Ilim Group modernized machinery for chip production in Ust-Ilimsk with investment volume making up 1.3 million USD. The first stage included restoration of the machinery efficiency, i.e. replacement of axle with chipping disc at Rader chip sorting installations.

Equipment for chip sorting used to exclude getting foreign objects and oversize slabs on the transporting bands that can damage the equipment. The installations are equipped with advanced three staged purification system. December 2008 axles with discs were replaced at one of the Rader sorting installations, due to which the machinery reached project capacity of 9.6 thousand cubic meter of chip per day.

Currently specialists of the company changed axles with discs at the other two sorting machines of the first stage. All in all there are 96 discs replaced. The project being realized machinery capacity exceeded project indicators and made up 10 thousand cubic meters of chips per day. 

The second stage includes replacement of the discs at the Rader installation of the second stage. The project is to be realized by the end of the year. As expected output of chips used for cooking is to reach at least 10 thousand cubic meters/ day.

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