The Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd. (“APRIL”) is one of the world’s leading fiber, pulp and paper companies. The company is headquartered in Singapore and has its main fiber plantation and production operations in Indonesia and China. APRIL Indonesia’s industrial complex is situated on a 1,750 hectare site at Pangkalan Kerinci, near Pekanbaru in Riau Province, Sumatra. APRIL operations cover sustainable fiber plantations, pulp and paper mills, an integrated chemical plant, and a power plant that generates all the energy for the complex and the nearby town, mostly from bio-fuel.
The Kraft pulp mill is the biggest single-site pulp mill in the world with a capacity of 2.8 million tons per year. The paper mills have one of the world’s fastest fine paper machines, with a designed maximum speed of 1,500 meters per minute, with a total capacity of 750,000 tons per year. (more…)