Suzano’s Cerrado pulp project in Mato Grosso do Sul state in mid-western Brazil is progressing well and on schedule to start-up in June 2024. The mill is truly a giant and will be the largest single line eucalyptus mill in the world, producing 2.55 million tons per year of pulp.

ANDRITZ is currently supplying all the process islands for the mill, as well as being responsible for civil construction, commissioning, and start-up on an EPCC basis.

Guangxi Chongzuo Lelin Forestry Development Company is part of the Lelin Group, which is headquartered in Nanning, Guangxi, China.

Significantly less energy and top quality: the brief for two new PrimeLine tissue machines in Romania perfectly matched ANDRITZ’s strengths.

ANDRITZ has become the market leader in systems for the removal of chlorides and potassium from the kraft recovery cycle, components which often reduce recovery boiler efficiency in terms of fouling or corrosion. Pulp giant Suzano recently started up an Ash ReCrystallization (ARC) chloride removal plant at its Aracruz unit in Brazil.

On its 10th anniversary of start-up last year, the mill was recorded as having produced a total of 11 years of production – a full year of additional pulp!

In 2020, ANDRITZ launched specialized HC refining technology for tissue production in China to tackle the challenges of surging pulp costs as well as to meet the demands of tissue producers looking for differentiation. Due to its remarkable success in operation, the technology was then steadily introduced to other Asian countries from 2022. The following interview gives a complete overview of HC refining technology.