Starlinger supplies production equipment for AD*STAR® sacks to Russian packaging producer KZSU

On May 23rd, 2016, the Russian company Kazanskiy Zavod Sovremennoy Upakovki (KZSU) officially inaugurated its new production plant for AD*STAR® block bottom sacks. Tatar President Rustam Minnikhanov personally attended the opening of the plant, which is situated in the “Himgrad” technology zone in Kazan, the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan.

44 million sacks per year for local and foreign markets
In the new plant, KZSU is producing AD*STAR® block bottom sacks for the packaging of cement, gypsum, chemicals, fertilizer, animal feed and other dry bulk goods. The entire production equipment for the sacks, which are made of coated polypropylene (PP) tape fabric, was sourced from Austrian machinery supplier and technology leader Starlinger & Co. Ges.m.b.H. The investment includes extrusion, weaving, coating and printing lines, as well as 2 ad*starKON sack conversion lines and a recoSTAR universal recycling line for treating the production waste from Starlinger. The plant has a production capacity of 44 million AD*STAR® sacks per year; the sacks will be supplied to Russian and foreign companies, among them JSC Chemical Plant Karpov, Asia Cement Ltd., Poliplast, Knauf Gypsum, Servolux (Belarus) or LLC Cement Plant Samadov (Tajikistan). In the past few years, Starlinger has installed 10 AD*STAR® production plants in other former Post-Soviet states; this is the first complete AD*STAR® production plant that has been set up in Russia.

Safe and sustainable packaging that saves money
AD*STAR® sacks are a very safe option for packaging dry bulk goods. Because of the coated PP fabric they do not break when dropped, squeezed or bent, and are resistant against humidity, providing reliable protection for the content. Cement companies that use AD*STAR® sacks were able to lower the in-house breakage to less than 0.2 % and breakage during transport to under 0.9 %. This brings important savings in cement production as the need to replace lost cement is reduced to a minimum: Given an average breakage rate of conventional cement sacks of 4.2 % and an annual average production of 2 million tons of cement, this would amount to 62,000 tons of cement that could be saved. Additionally, the environment benefits from less CO2 emitted during cement production and less pollution of the environment due to spilled cement.

The brick-shaped sacks are perfectly suited for automated filling and palletising and can be used on every high-speed roto-packer. The highly automated production process of AD*STAR® sacks is very accurate, guaranteeing minimum size variations and consequently trouble-free filling. The sacks are tight, ensuring that their entire content stays inside. Also with the optional micro-perforation (600 000 holes/m2), which is necessary for aeration during the filling process of cement, the AD*STAR® sacks are leak-proof and virtually dust-free.

Source: Starlinger