Sofidel Group, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, finalized the details of an expansion plan announced last October. The expansion, which takes place at the company’s integrated facility in Inola, Oklahoma, further strengthens its production capacity nationwide.
The plan includes the construction of a new building to house the previously announced Through-Air-Drying (TAD) tissue machine, along with the installation of converting lines with matching capacity for the production of finished goods. This project will also include the expansion of the pulp and parent reel warehouse, along with the construction of a fully automated finished goods warehouse with 100,000 pallet positions. In total, the new buildings will cover approximately 1 million square feet (90,000 square meters).
The new facility will feature state-of-the-art internal logistics. An automatic system using Laser Guided Vehicles (LGVs) will transport parent reels from the paper machine to the warehouse, and an automated loading system will be connected directly to the finished goods automated warehouse. The choice of TAD technology directly addresses the growing demand in a dynamic North American market that’s increasingly oriented—also in the Private Label segment—toward premium products…