Futura is to supply converting systems to FPC in Concepción, Chile. The privately-owned FPC is highly diversified with interests including fluting and testliner in the forest-based sector.
FPC is destined to be a major new force in tissue in Latin America: In its first foray into tissue production, FPC aims to lead the market in quality by specifying top-of-the-range technology, including Futura tissue converting solutions and a Metso NTT tissue machine.
The Futura converting equipment is due to start up in the first quarter of 2014. Futura has, in just over a decade, taken tissue converting to new levels of operating ease and efficiency for both consumer and professional lines. Since 2002, Futura has delivered more than 150 projects throughout the world.