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For more information, you can visit our Cookie Policy German paper and packaging supplier Schumacher Packaging has successfully started up its PM 2 in Myszków The upgrade was supplied by technology group Voith the entire production line was modernised to achieve the highest sustainability and efficiency standards The rebuild enables Schumacher to double production capacity from 500 to 1,000 tpd at reduced fibre energy and freshwater consumption and lower waste generation Schumacher acquired the Myszków plant, which then produced newsprint, in 2016 and converted it to containerboard production. In 2021, the company announced plans to double the machine’s capacity to 300,000 tpy of lightweight containerboard in base weights ranging from 80 to 140 gsm To meet the increased production capacity and further increase plant efficiency has now been expanded with additional technologies from Voith’s BlueLine portfolio The current rebuild will enable lower operating costs as well as fast and smooth grade changes the press section was renewed and equipped with Voith's NipcoFlex technology for two shoe presses which significantly increases dry content and capacity and reduces specific steam consumption The scope of supply also includes a fully automatic VariFlex NG winder This article was updated on 19 January 2024 Service Customer Service+49 7224 9397-701servicenoSpam@GO-AWAYeuwid.de Editorial Team+49 7224 9397-0papernoSpam@GO-AWAYeuwid.com Get the latest news about developments and trends in the industry sent to you once a week free of charge by newsletter Sign up for our newsletter We use cookies and external services on our website others enhance your user experience or help us improve this website You can change your privacy settings any time by clicking privacy policy Necessary cookies are required for the correct functioning of the website Content from video platforms and map services is blocked by default. 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You can find more information on the individual external services in our privacy policy CNP Myszkow has developed and launched to the market a new coating applied in the process of hot dip galvanising with centrifugation ZMspin is dedicated to fasteners such as screws with the coating achieving “spectacular results” in salt chamber testing – where there was no trace of corrosion after 3,000 hours “The technological process for ZMspin does not use acids to activate the surface and thus the parts have no possibility of hydrogen embrittlement,” explains CNP Myszkow a low bath temperature is used in the ZMspin coating galvanising process which provides additional assurance that components subjected to the ZMspin galvanising process will not be at risk of hydrogen embrittlement.”  The technological process also generates much less waste than the classic hot dip galvanising which reduces the negative impact on the environment Another benefit of the ZMspin coating is that it reduces maintenance costs of steel structures potential damage to the anti-corrosion coating during assembly is reduced to a minimum ZMspin can also be successfully used in applications currently requiring duplex coating Will joined Fastener + Fixing Magazine in 2007 and over the last 15 years has experienced every facet of the fastener sector - interviewing key figures within the industry and visiting leading companies and exhibitions around the globe Will manages the content strategy across all platforms and is the guardian for the high editorial standards that the Magazine is renowned Eighty-nine-year-old Auschwitz survivor Jadwiga Bogucka pictured above holding a photograph of herself at the time was 19 when she and her mother were sent from their house to a camp in the Polish city of Pruszkow and then by train to Auschwitz were killed at the Nazi camp which has became a symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust and World War Two Bogucka and her mother were among about 200,000 inmates who survived Auschwitz liberated by Soviet Red Army troops on January 27 German forces occupying Poland set up Auschwitz on an isolated 40 sq km site in southern Poland in 1940 as a labour camp for Polish prisoners gradually expanding it into a vast labour and death camp is among survivors who posed for portraits and recounted their stories to Reuters photographers in Poland and Hungary ahead of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp this month was 17 when he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau At the camp he was briefly reunited with his father who told him that his mother and younger brother were both killed in the gas chambers Majerowicz's father didn't survive the war when now 80-year-old Elzbieta Sobczynska was 10 she was sent with her mother and brother to Auschwitz-Birkenau There they were separated into blocks for woman Sobczynska said that she was robbed of her childhood and lost the chance to experience a different kind of life posed with a drawing by one of his campmates Erdelyi was sent to Auschwitz in May 1944 and was later moved to another camp Eighty-two-year-old Halina Brzozowska was 12 when she and her family were sent to a camp in Pruszkow Together with her 6-year-old sister she was taken by train to Auschwitz Brzozowska said it was hard to talk about what had happened to them On my first meeting with survivors of Auschwitz and at the same time concentrate on getting good pictures But I quickly found very open people who wanted to be photographed and to share their stories My colleague Laszlo Balogh from Hungary and I had decided to photograph Auschwitz survivors in Poland and Hungary ahead of the 70th anniversary of the camp's liberation this month and to shoot the portraits in the same style I arranged to meet the survivors in their homes and to spend a proper amount of time with them mainly talking and listening rather than trying to shoot their portraits But halfway through the assignment I was invited to a weekly meeting of a survivors' association who suggested we set up a "studio" at their premises Even though I knew it was not the first time these people were sharing their stories it was not easy for them to bring up memories and photographs of their tragic survival I thought I could expect what I was going to hear but I don't think anyone could be prepared for such stories stories of people who were children at the time which was kept by her brother while they were in the camp holds a photo of herself taken during the war She was 12 when she and her mother were sent to Auschwitz was born in Auschwitz two weeks before the camp was liberated Her mother was sent to the camp when she was four months pregnant Bogdan Bartnikowski was 12 when he and his mother were sent to Auschwitz After the war Bartnikowski worked as a pilot Bartnikowski holds his family picture from wartime was 13 when he was sent from his home to a camp in Pruszkow then to Auschwitz and later to a labour sub-camp holds his picture of himself as a young boy He did not talk about Auschwitz for 60 years because he felt ashamed for having lived said those who were sick or about to give birth were forced out and put into one wagon When the wagon was opened in Auschwitz they were all dead was taken by train to Auschwitz when he was 13 and in January 1945 he managed to escape with his family thanks to a power fault in the barbed wire surrounding the camp Danuta Bogdaniuk-Bogucka was 10 when she was sent to Auschwitz camp with her mother was seven when he was sent with his family to Auschwitz by train In January 1945 the family was moved to a labour camp in Berlin holds compilation of family pictures from wartime who were all killed in the concentration camp was 10 when he was sent to Auschwitz with his family They were separated and Duszyk only saw his father once before he was killed was 12 when she and her sister were sent from their house to a camp in Pruszkow Stroinska holds her family picture from before the war was 12-years-old during the Warsaw Uprising when she was sent to Auschwitz with her mother Doniecka holds a picture of herself from 1944 Spanish Saica Group has reached an agreement with Schumacher Packaging to acquire the German company's Polish activities. This includes two corrugated board plants in Bydgoszcz and Wrocław, two paper mills in Grudziądz and Myszków, one of which was completely modernised in 2023 The management and all employees will be kept The transaction is pending clearance by the Polish antitrust authorities as well as the fulfilment of certain conditions precedent Schumacher Packaging is considered an important producer of customised corrugated and solid board packaging in Europe The group's Polish plants have a capacity of 440,000 tpy of paper and 535 million m² of corrugated board packaging and generated sales of €327m in 2023 Schumacher Packaging employs 1,540 people in Poland The group as a whole runs a total of 17 production sites in Germany the takeover means that it is significantly strengthening its presence in Poland The Spanish group entered the Polish market in 2011 through a joint venture with Thimm Group acquiring a corrugated bard packaging plant in Tychy Saica bought a majority stake in waste management company Recykling the spin-off of the Polish subsidiary will not cause any complications for the rest of the Schumacher Packaging Group The Polish organisation worked almost independently of the other country organisations with its own management The officers of the Regional Office of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau in Katowice detained a Silesian entrepreneur and two former directors of the Warsaw branch of SK Bank (Spółdzielczy Bank Rzemiosła i Rolnictwa in Wołomin) The detention took place in Warsaw and Myszków the detainees will be transferred to the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw where they will be charged with acting to the detriment of SK Bank for over 40 million zlotys Findings of the investigators indicate that the entrepreneur obtained loans from the bank for which she did not have debt capacity The investigation in this case was entrusted to the CBA by the Prosecutor's Office in April 2016 It is conducted in connection with the case on the abuse of trust by the authorities of Spółdzielczy Bank Rzemiosła i Rolnictwa in Wołomin keeping accounting books against the provisions of the act on accounting and providing in these books unreliable data concealment of true and providing false information to NBP (National Bank of Poland) In May 2016 the CBA agents entered into the head office of Spółdzielczy Bank Rzemiosła i Rolnictwa in Wołomin places of residence of persons performing managerial functions in the bank during the investigation period and to several dozen business entities from the capital group operating in the real estate development industry The bank's losses are estimated at about 2.7 billion zlotys