The chairman of Renova, Paulo Pereira da Silva, who welcomed the prime minister, António Costa, and a delegation that also included the economy minister, Manuel Caldeira Cabral, and the secretary of state for industry, João Vasconcelos, said that the new production line for tissue paper (used in hankies and napkins, among other products) is going to allow the company to produce an extra 35,000 to 40,000 tons of innovative paper a year.
The machine that was inaugurated earlier this week is to produce “structured paper” that the company has called “4D paper”, where the “fourth dimension has to do with the memory of shape”, and the “base product” is going to be called “Magic”, Paulo Pereira da Silva told reporters.
“It is the first machine in Europe to make this kind of paper and the fifth in the world”, he said, adding that there were “huge challenges” to making an innovative product in the industry.