Abstract
Fuji City, located at the foot of Mount Fuji, has been famous for paper manufacturing since ancient days and now more than 100 paper mills are in operation there.
Honshu Paper Co., Ltd.'s Fuji Mill, located in the west part of Fuji City, started its operation in 1908.
The mill has 6 paperboard machines (4 cylinder machines, 2 combination machines), 3 paper machines (2 Fourdrinier machines, 1 vertiformer machine), and 1 coater. Its products are 528 tons per day of coated board, 239 tons per day of printing paper and 159 tons per day of coated paper.
The mill has waste paper equipment instead of pulping equipment such as KP, TMP or CGP.
The mill has an area of 600, 000 m2, which not only contains the paper machine and equipment mentioned above, but also a pulp molding plant, a paperboard converting plant and an ironworks in the same area. There are about 1, 100 employees.
The waste water from the mill is treated with an activated sludge process, 4 clarifiers and sludge incineration equipment.
