Our Production Facilities

• The machines used by Solaris to manufacture bathroom tissue, household towel products and hard roll towel products are all new, advanced equipment that operate at a faster rate than other older equipment and use higher levels of automation.
• The combination of high speed, quick product change and low labour through high levels of automation means that the line at the Greystanes facility is very efficient relative to other lines in Australia and elsewhere.
• The high level of automation means that there is little lost paper and energy during product changes (which can involve changing paper, embossing, perforation, packaging, bundling and palletizing). One of the main machines, known as a winder, has been designed to result in less unavoidable waste than occurs with similar but older equipment.  Together, this has resulted in Solaris' current waste being around 2 to 3 per cent if its total turnover, which compares favourably with the industry best practice of about 5 per cent.
• The larger motors in the bigger machines use power regeneration to capture energy when slowing down and returning this to other machines in the factory.
• Power connection to the site has been designed to achieve a power factor of 0.97+ and thereby minimise transmission losses.
• Support equipment used at the facility has been chosen with efficiency in mind.  For example, the air compressor used at the facility is the most efficient able to be purchased, resulting in lower energy consumption than similar but less efficient compressors.