Success stories by ANDRITZ

At almost 3.5 billion US dollars, UPM Paso de los Toros is the biggest capex project by one of the biggest forestry companies in the world and when announced was also the largest foreign direct investment ever in Uruguay.

In India, pumped storage technology plays an important role in ensuring grid stability and coping with volatile solar and wind power supplies.

With a history of responsible business stretching back 118 years, SANKO TEXTILE is a cornerstone of SANKO HOLDING, one of Turkey’s strongest and best-known family enterprises.

In the Texas city of Fort Worth, ANDRITZ helps to process large amounts of waste water by converting sewage sludge into fertilizer. CO₂ emissions are also reduced in the process.

Over the years, ANDRITZ Chile has provided equipment maintenance, repair, and installation services to customers in the pulp and paper industry through its pulp service division. In the course of our work, we have learned that each safety situation and location demand a unique approach when it comes to the most effective channels of communication.

Hydropower makes a decisive contribution to reducing global CO₂ emissions. Two very different ANDRITZ projects prove this.

ANDRITZ supplied Rohrdorfer Zement with Germany’s first CO₂ capture plant. The technology supports the company on its way to CO₂-free cement production.

The European steel industry aims to produce CO₂-neutral steel by 2050. A new type of ANDRITZ furnace at voestalpine Wire Rod is already helping to save energy and reduce emissions.

Thanks to ANDRITZ technology, pulp and paper manufacturer Klabin produces sulfuric acid from gases generated in its pulp mill - and thus also reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

A new concept for PV-hydro hybrids

ANDRITZ has already carried out a lot of work in reducing emissions, closing loops, and developing new technology for replacing products made using fossil fuels, but now it is reinforcing its ambition with the launch of the CircleToZero initiative, which is encouraging all pulp and paper industry players to really push the boundaries in this area of reducing the impact on the planet, and most importantly creating new innovative bioproducts.

Podcast: Pulp mills are getting bigger, faster and more efficient. Today a full-size drying line can handle a web width of over 10 meters. ANDRITZ drying lines have come a long way in a short space of time to keep up with the fast evolution taking place in pulp mills.

KEEPING SKILLED PERSONNEL SAFE! It is a credit to the skills of pulp makers across the globe that there are not more accidents reported when carrying out tail threading in the drying process. ANDRITZ has created a full range of solutions for automated tail threading from the wet end to the cutter to avoid exposure to moving parts.

Interview with Naveen Chenna, Head of Business and Technology Development, ANDRITZ

Consumer demand and textile industry targets are driving the circularity agenda, but it is technology that will actually make it happen.

Let's celebrate!

Podcast: Health & Safety management is at new levels across industries in Europe, and rightfully so. In this podcast we discuss how health & safety aspects in the pulp and paper industry in Europe could benefit from a more harmonized approach.

Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski bioproduct mill in Finland is predicting the future utilizing the latest digital technology from ANDRITZ for its white liquor plant.

ANDRITZ has appointed Albrecht Miletzky, a paper engineer and production manager with many years of experience at one of the leading European paper and board producers, for containerboard among other things, as Head of Technology for Paper and Board.

ANDRITZ recently supplied the very first Bubbling Fluidized Bed (BFB) biomass boiler to the country of Denmark, which will assist in nationwide efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. The new boiler is installed at Helsingør Kraftvarmeværk’s new district heat and power generation plant, which is immaculate in design as well as operation.

Customers confide in us that a major source of pain is being locked into a single automation supplier with a control system that cannot be easily upgraded. Why can’t it be like their smartphone with an App Store where they can download and add functions with ease?

ANDRITZ is regarded as an innovator in developing technologies for the manufacture of premium tissue grades that are in high demand today. Yet the majority of the world’s tissue is produced using conventional dry-creping techniques. To serve this large market, ANDRITZ continually enhances the reliability and performance of its “standard” technology.

ANDRITZ has developed a world-wide reputation as a leader in the production of steel Yankees for a variety of paper grades and even tobacco machines.

The Suzano Unit in Imperatriz was able to reduce the unproductive time in Pulp Drying by applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced controls in the tail threading system on its pulp drying machines. The partnership with ANDRITZ has contributed to advancing the pulp mill's digital transformation process.

Even though pulp and paper mills are energy-intensive, our industry is one of least CO₂-intensive due to the wide use of bio-based and renewable fuels. The tissue and towel sector, however, emits more carbon per tonne of paper than most other paper grades, primarily due to purchased electricity from fossil-fuel sources. ANDRITZ is contributing in many ways to reduce the carbon footprint for tissue production through its “CircleToZero” initiative.

Harri Makkonen took over as Arauco MAPA Project Director for ANDRITZ on October 1, 2018. In July 2019, Makkonen moved to Concepción, Chile, together with his family after accepting the demanding challenge of being ANDRITZ Project Director for Arauco’s huge MAPA project. Makkonen’s family includes his wife Susanna and his 18-year-old daughter Matilda. Both support him in every way they can, and Makkonen is delighted to have his family with him in Chile.

ANDRITZ has designed a broad range of high-consistency (HC) refiners to meet the demands of pulp, paper, panelboard, and recycle producers. At the top of the line in terms of throughput and motor power is the TX68 twin refiner.

The downturn in global manufacturing activity during the last year has created a difficult demand environment for many packaging grades. However, this is expected to be relatively short lived, since there are several factors that suggest better times are ahead, once the uncertainty on the manufacturing front eases. Global demand for packaging paper and board should grow 2.4% annually during the next five years, even if conditions remain challenging in 2020.

We will bring together the trends, challenges and solutions that matter most to ANDRITZ customers, and to the pulp, paper and bioproduct industries at large.

Podcast: They say you can’t re-invent the wheel, but it seems that ANDRITZ has done just that with its PrimeDry Steel Yankee. The Yankee is even the shape of a wheel …

ANDRITZ Smelt Spout Cleaning Systems are proving to be something of a hit with recovery boiler operators world-wide, with several successful installations and more than 20 new systems on order. Nevertheless, the work never stops in developing the robotic systems further; ANDRITZ experts have devised a number of new features that help to provide an even safer working environment, as well as new intelligent tools for managing efficiency in a recovery boiler.

Thai tissue producer BJC Cellox needed a new tissue line to take advantage of growing demand for its high-quality products. ANDRITZ was chosen to supply a complete turnkey line including a PrimeLineCOMPACT tissue machine.

ANDRITZ Wood Processing has received an order from Metsä Fibre bioproduct mill project in Kemi, Finland to supply the world first ANDRITZ SIM600 Logyard Crane Simulator.

The Metris DryQ Sensing Sealing Lip is able to determine its own wear status and thus fosters the ability to provide predictive maintenance to plant operations.

ANDRITZ accepted the challenge to offer online support for the replacing of the siphon system of Tjiwi Kimia’s Yankee in Indonesia. Because of travel restrictions due to COVID-19, Yankee service experts had to provide remote support from Austria. Nevertheless, distance was no obstacle to the project‘s success.

ANDRITZ has received an order from IHI Transport Machinery Co., Ltd. to deliver CenterScrew slewing screw reclaimers to Hokuriku Electric Power Company for their pellet plant at Nanao Ohta Thermal Power Plant, Japan. The start-up of the entire plant is planned for Q1 2025.

Going fossil-fuel free can throw up unexpected challenges. After changing the fuel used from natural gas to fossil-free gas, an ANDRITZ Customer wanted to continue improving its environmental footprint by reducing dust emissions. ANDRITZ successfully delivered a tailor-made solution installed into a tight space at a pulp mill in Finland.

Arauco’s MAPA project in Horcones, Chile is now in full swing; the earthmoving and foundation building has almost been completed and the civil works have started. ANDRITZ is a major supplier to the project and has been closely working together with Arauco, which will see the Chilean company become the third largest producer of eucalyptus pulp in the world. Start-up is scheduled for the first quarter of 2021.

Projects and events

ANDRITZ will be a key supplier of the process equipment for Infinited Fiber company’s planned flagship factory in Finland?

Podcast: The recovery boiler is often considered to be the heart of a pulp mill, and it is undoubtedly vital for environmental and economically sustainable production.

A cooperation agreement with Mercedes-Benz Energy fuses more than a century of market-leading expertise in hydropower technology with cutting-edge innovative battery technology.

Renewable Energy on Tab - Kidston, Australia

Schuler, ANDRITZ Soutec and thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering have developed a plant that can significantly reduce the production costs for fuel cells.

Toledo Alfalfa Mills is a significant producer of U.S. alfalfa pellets. When the company needed to boost production at its plant in Oregon, Ohio, they turned to ANDRITZ FB Canada Inc., for support. The result: a 15% lift in annual productivity.

The Brazilian mining company ITAMINAS is using ANDRITZ filter systems to avoid storing tailings in containment dams and recover 90% of the water.

An energy park for green electricity is being built in Australia and uses the pits in a former gold mine as reservoirs for water storage. The equipment for the pumped storage power station comes from ANDRITZ.

Rusumo Falls, Burundi / Rwanda / Tanzania

Swedish company Södra is able to produce up to 6.3 million liters of commercial-quality biomethanol a year with help from ANDRITZ. The biomethanol is used to make biodiesel fuel for motor vehicles.

The Taiwanese company Walsin Lihwa has substantially reduced its water and acid consumption in stainless steel production thanks to ANDRITZ.

Mwadingusha, Congo DRC

HyNET and HySEC – The dedicated smart network and security solution for ­hydropower plants in the digital age

Flatness measurement upgraded to an outstanding multifunctional tool – just getting a step ahead for future application.

Hydropower – Key to a sustainable green future

Kamolot, Uzbekistan

Nepal, Upper Tamakoshi

Roadmap to more flexibility for hydropower plants

A new ANDRITZ Hydro corporate office has opened in São Paulo, Brazil.

Projects around the world

Yacyretá, Argentina and Paraguay

Powering up to reach global green goals

Interview with Dr. Alexander Trattner Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Research Director

Port Albern, Austria

Traunleiten, Austria

EnergyConnect, Australia

Brazil, Belo Monte

Canada, Carillon

Houay Ka-Ouane and Nam Sak, Lao PDR

Megatrends develop slowly, but they are enormously powerful. Gross global changes affecting every aspect of the economy and society, they are exerting a profound influence on companies, institutions, and individuals.

Doubling energy production

ANDRITZ Hydro and MAN Energy Solutions agree on hydrogen cooperation

Possibilities and opportunities for the global hydropower market

Synchronous condensers - the renaissance of rotating machines to maintain the stability of the transmission network.

Technological breakthrough

Lussa, Scotland

Gouvães, Portugal

HyBaTec

Plant start-ups can be outsourced with ANDRITZ Digital Solutions.

It´s all about the data

Renewal and energy optimization

In just two years, ANDRITZ has launched two completely new machine concepts for tissue producers to provide the very best in technology available for making specialty products with maximum efficiencies. The two concepts, the PrimeLineTEX and the PrimeLineVRT, are now available on the market and can be tested at the ANDRITZ tissue pilot plant in Graz.

Projects around the world

System strength

Investment into hydropower

Pakistan, Gulpur

To avoid unplanned plant shutdowns, it is important to know at an early stage when vital components need to be replaced or maintained. Condition monitoring enables operators to work proactively and keep shutdown time to a minimum.

USA, Alder

Stora Enso’s Imatra pulp Mill, located in eastern Finland, is one of the world’s largest producers of liquid packaging board. Now, thanks to the latest ANDRITZ flash drying technology, the mill is also able to fully utilize its BCTMP plant, which can now produce dry pulp for its internal use, as well as for the market.

Major upgrades and a series of smaller innovations have been incorporated into the new ANDRITZ PrimeFilter D to improve performance and reduce maintenance. The new design includes the latest bagless technology, which is well-proven in over 65 installations to date. The upgraded PrimeFilter D has been well-received already – 15 units have been started up and more orders are being received from leading papermakers.

Commissioning works despite all difficulties – Kpong, Ghana

ANDRITZ received an unusual request: The world famous Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna needed help to grate and process raw bamboo into refined flour for its giant pandas Yuan Yuan and Yang Yang. ANDRITZ, of course, accepted the challenge.

The renaissance of rotating machines

An innovative concept – ANDRITZ Screen Booster – helps any mill upgrade the performance of its Screen Room. The Booster modules – Basket, Bearing Unit, Rotor, and Dilution Rotor – were created to enhance any of four critical components in a screening system. Any one, or all, of these upgrades can be easily installed on a screen as needed, regardless of the original equipment manufacturer.

Well-known with over 5,400 pressure screens installed in numerous stock preparation lines worldwide, ANDRITZ presents the latest evolution in screening – the PrimeScreen X. The innovative design of the new screen builds on the successes of the widely valued ModuScreen family, but offers innovative key benefits. The improvements in energy efficiency, screening performance, and maintainability are significant.

India, Kiru

Work on home straight

Plant operators should integrate digitalization, expert know-how and predictive maintenance.

Cross-border project started

To produce effective medication and health care products Novo Nordisk relies on ANDRITZ technologies.

Testing for the best – with the world’s strongest R&D rig

Metris DryQ, an innovative system for pulp drying, analyzes data, links experts and derives improvements.

Challenges are also opportunities

ANDRITZ has developed a line for the production of masks: up to 750,000 masks per day, highest standards.

ANDRITZ continues to service its customers around the world despite the COVID-19 pandemic. However, strict precautions are insisted upon both in our own operations and at our customer sites to ensure the safety of our own personnel as well as of our customers and any people working on or around projects in which we are involved.

A Long Developing Partnership for Quality US Mills

Super PremieR Technology for Our Best Friends

Hydraulic model “EDF-Accepted”

First CAT project in Vietnam

Paul Quinn, of Milling Technology Services has been working in the animal feed industry since 1982. He and his wife and business partner, Liz Quinn envision continued success due to the consistent nature of the animal feed industry but also because they have seen approximately 12% annual growth in parallel markets, such as pet food manufacturing, over the last two years.

ANDRITZ is once again providing opportunities for pulp producers to increase the range of added value bio-products in their product portfolios with its A-ConCrystal™ continuous technology for microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) production. There is still an increasing demand for the use of MCC in several fields of applications, strengthening the position of being one of the fastest growing areas in the use of specialty celluloses.

Challenging terrain

Georgia Biomass, located in the Southeastern region of the United States, is the leading supplier of sustainable wood pellets and the largest, most modern facility of its kind in

the world.

ANDRITZ has utilized visual technology, combined it with the latest in digitization methods and created the Metris AVA Recovery Boiler Toolbox, designed to revolutionize the monitoring and managing of critical boiler operations and activities.

Reliable measurements from inside the digester. ANDRITZ has teamed up with Savcor, a Finnish technology provider specializing in the use of electrochemistry for corrosion prevention and structural health monitoring, and have together developed a novel method to measure alkali levels inside the digester.

Updates on Carillon, Pinnapuram, Sambangalou and Barkley

From old to new

Helping Canada’s most successful pellet producer grow to third largest in the world

Franz Harrer is the director of the ANDRITZ Steel Yankee and Technology Tissue team. He joined ANDRITZ about 13 years ago as a design engineer for tissue and paper machines providing a product development focus early on.

Australia, Poatina

The pulp making process hasn’t inherently changed over the years; however, ANDRITZ has had a lot of success with reinventing processes and technology in and around mills to increase capacity, improve quality, and cut operating costs. The LimeWhite-H White Liquor Disc Filter is another game-changing development.

The hands that helped an international animal nutrition powerhouse deliver

ANDRITZ is fully aware of what downtime means to its customers in the paper and board industry – however, to keep ahead in a competitive environment, rebuilding, updating, and refurbishing equipment is essential. The secret is to plan well in advance, shut down quickly, get the work done fast, and then be up and running again as soon as possible.

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the world’s industries, shutting down operations and leading to the mass furloughing and laying off of workers and contractors. However, due to its massive importance to the country of Chile as well as to the global pulp and paper industry, Arauco’s MAPA project has continued, although in a much-adapted way.

Suzano Imperatriz, located in Maranhão, northern Brazil, is one of the new breed of giant pulp mills. The mill has recently undergone a number of improvements including the implementation of a smart bleaching system from ANDRITZ that is making a real difference when it comes to chemical consumption.

Works successful completed

Running a pulp mill successfully requires that all processes, technology, and equipment work in harmony across the entire system with the whole chain being only as strong as its weakest link. Metris DryQ™ is the new intelligent solution from ANDRITZ, designed for monitoring data from drying systems, helping to strengthen a vital link in the production chain to optimize the drying performance.

ANDRITZ Pulp and Paper supports them on their journey towards climate neutral pulp production

Lightweight fiber composites like carbon are promising candidates for large-scale production in car manufacturing.

In 2006, an Icelandic compound feed company decided to make a major investment in the future. The goal: To build the country’s most modern, flexible and productive feed mill.

Brazil, Sobradinho

ANDRITZ provides complete nonwoven production lines for sustainable wet wipes?

TECNOLOGIA SUPER PREMIUM para NOSSOS MELHORES AMIGOS

ANDRITZ offers the complete portfolio for exhaust gas cleaning in the maritime industry?

Ghana, Kpong

ANDRITZ recycling recently developed the new ADuro S shredder to prepare refuse-derived fuels?

Empagran, the parent company of ABA Balanceados and pioneers in the development of aquaculture diets, is a fully integrated aquaculture company dedicated to the entire shrimp production chain. They manufacture feed for shrimp and tilapia, which they have been raising for over 45 years.

ANDRITZ has developed its own DCS (Distributed Control System), a control and PLC system based on the latest technology, and is thus driving its digitalization strategy systematically forward.

Due to its perfect climate for fiber growth, Chile has become a major pulp and paper making nation over recent decades, with some of the world’s largest producers now situated in the South American country. ANDRITZ has also grown its base in Chile, and now offers complete equipment sales, project management, service, and maintenance support for its thriving pulp and paper mills.

CMPC Biopackaging – Boxboard and ANDRITZ have been collaborating successfully on ramping up mechanical pulp production for a number of years. The mill has gone from strength to strength, increasing capacity, to supply the demanding global market for high-quality, lightweight, folding boxboard.

Norway, Nedre Otta

Cyber attacks on industrial companies have become an everyday occurrence, and the damage they cause can be immense and long-lasting.

Zellstoff Pöls AG has entered a new era: Thanks to its additional production line, the Heinzel Group’s location has doubled its capacities for kraft paper grades. Once again, the technological heart of this growth strategy is an innovative paper machine from ANDRITZ.

The recovery boiler smelt spout area is an unwelcoming and potentially dangerous place to work. However, essential regular tasks need to be carried out in the area for efficient and smooth operation of the boiler. A combined team of ANDRITZ design experts and workshop engineers have come up with a smart solution, the Smelt Spout Cleaning System, that enables essential work and maintenance to take place in a harsh environment.

A closer look at the way roll covers, spreader rolls, SMART™ technology and Rezolve predictive analytics improve paper machine productivity, enhance product quality, and reduce operating costs.

In Spectrum, we often have the privilege of reporting on new technological breakthroughs. But in this article about upgrading BM1 at PJSC Kyiv Cardboard and Paper Mill in Ukraine, that is not so much the focus. The new shoe press and calender from ANDRITZ have brought gains, true, but what was arguably most interesting in this case was …

For more efficiency

Italy, Bressanone

ANDRITZ is always exploring ways to take the ever-important issues of Health & Safety to new levels. We have recently launched the internationally recognized IOSH Managing Safely courses for all employees engaged in responsible positions within our pulp and paper activities around the globe.

Keeping colleagues and customers safe

The production area of Turkish specialist nonwovens producer Sapro is more like a group of clinical laboratories than the production hub of one of the world’s largest producers of wet wipes. And it’s not just super clean; the company has embarked on a journey utilizing Metris solutions that will see it become one of the most efficient wet wipe producers in the industry.

Wood, pulp, and paper have long determined the fortunes of the Pöls community in Styria. Here Zellstoff Pöls AG produces longfiber sulfate pulp and kraft papers. With an additional production line based on the exceptional ANDRITZ PrimeLine paper machine, the Heinzel Group site is now focusing more than ever on the world market.

SCA ’s pulp mill in Östrand, Sweden, has reinvented itself in a mammoth, three-year project. ANDRITZ contributed the advanced technology and extensive know-how for one of the country’s largest industrial investments.

Lysefjord in southwestern Norway is spectacular: The deep blue inlet extends 42 kilometers inland, framed by rugged cliffs hundreds of meters high. At the end of the fjord, a different kind of gem is ensconced deep in the rock: the new Lysebotn II hydropower station. The Lyse Group produces highly efficient “green energy” here – with effective support from ANDRITZ.

In the largest gold mine in the eastern USA, the ANDRITZ Digital Twin technology is being used to optimize many facets of the gold mining process.

Chris Sousa from ANDRITZ met Mike Carroll, Vice President of Innovation of Georgia-Pacific Corporation, one of the world’s leaders in producing paper and tissue for mostly giant industrial customers, talked about the essence and the results of their work together.

Pushing renewable energy

Challenging municipal budgets. Water shortages. A need for renewable energy. Today, there’s simply no room for waste. Getting the most efficient separation is essential not just to profitability but ensuring sustainable growth.

Sun Paper Holding Laos started up its 300,000 t/a greenfield pulp mill near the small town of Xepon, Savannakhet Province, Laos, last year after just 20 months from the signing of supplier contracts. ANDRITZ was chosen to supply various key technologies for the project.

Smurfit Kappa Nettingsdorf has been something of a trailblazer through the years. It was one of the first paper mills ever to use a shoe press and one of the first to try out “continuous batch” pulp cooking. And now, they have another world first to report …

When integrated Swedish mill Holmen Paper Hallsta wanted to further enhance its book paper production process, it called on ANDRITZ to carry out a rather unique project of utilizing two second-hand twin wire presses, and an existing, pre-used screw press to increase capacity and improve pulp quality for its PM 12.

In modern mill and wood processing plants, adding value all along the production chain has become a “must have”. ANDRITZ Universal Shredders provide a vital link in the chain by solving waste wood problems at the same time as turning them into valuable, sellable products.

A portfolio of ANDRITZ digital solutions.

Manifattura Fontana in Italy recently doubled capacity by installing a state-of-the-art neXline needlepunch line supplied by ANDRITZ.

Imagine the ability to produce the best product at the lowest cost every hour of the day – that is optimization in a nutshell.

The perfect fit for future innovation in fabrics and rolls

Experts on demand. The new Metris Performance Center expands service to papermakers around the world by putting an ANDRITZ expert virtually in the mill’s control room whenever needed.

allows mills to see the chemical cycle in a new light.

China, Shanxi Xiaolangdi - Yellow river diversion project

ANDRITZ integrates several innovative technologies to increase chipper throughput and wood chip quality.

The patented QSB forming fabric design allows producers to improve tissue product quality and machine performance.

We are living in a century where digital devices monitor every move and our own mobile devices know everything about us – where we go, what we do, our health status, and much more. The data available on our lives transfers mobile phones into our private assistants and supports us in many endeavors with helpful functions and hints. Industries are being enabled in a similar way to monitor and control all assets and plants and improve performance in an effort to achieve perfection.

Arauco’s MAPA project in Chile represents not only the most important expansion the company has ever undertaken, it is also currently the only major eucalyptus pulp project taking place in the world. The company operates five mills in Chile, one in Argentina, and has a joint venture in Uruguay, together with Stora Enso.

On October 28, 2017, Laakirchen Papier AG in Austria celebrated production of its first containerboard reel: a milestone in an ambitious rebuild project that was of great strategic importance for the papermaker and for the main supplier – ANDRITZ. At the beginning of January 2019, more than one year later, PM 10 was running with basis weights of around 100 g/m2 at a speed of 1,300 to 1,330 m/min. CEO Thomas Welt comments, “We have achieved the goals set for speed development.”

Digitalization is progressing in leaps and bounds: The main reasons for this are technical progress, constant further development of the internet, mobile applications and technologies based on artificial intelligence, and increasing globalization. Technology trends emerging as a result of digitalization, such as IoT (Internet of Things), AI (Artificial Intelligence), data analytics by means of Big Data, and AR (Augmented Reality), not only have a considerable impact on society and the working environment, but also on business operations in industry.

Workplace: ANDRITZ Savonlinna Works Oy, Finland

Position: Managing Director

Just like super-fast pit stops in Grand Prix Formula One racing, ANDRITZ has been concentrating on helping customers to minimize shutdown times, utilizing its Metris OPP platform. The dedicated Metris Planning App is integrated into the platform and is already achieving remarkable results in shutdown efficiencies.

ANDRITZ and OTORIO: a perfect combination for ensuring safe digital growth

Henan Tianbang Group Paper Company takes enormous pride in the quality of its fine paper products that are known and used all over China, as well as being exported around the world. When the company decided to end its dependence on market pulp and produce its own mechanical pulp, ANDRITZ was the first to be called.

The largest engineering projects northern Sweden has ever seen was completed recently with the doubling of capacity at SCA Östrand’s softwood kraft pulp mill. The project – named Helios after the God of the Sun in Greek mythology – is now setting a new global benchmark in high-performance pulp production. ANDRITZ supplied some of the latest key technology to the completely rebuilt mill.

Major, definitive research into nonwoven raw materials, applications and production models and methods are all in a day’s work for the European Center for Innovative Textiles (CETI) in France. The latest ANDRITZ state-of-the-art air-through bonding nonwoven technology is right at the heart of the center’s globally renowned research.

The Holmen Group’s Braviken Paper Mill, situated in eastern Sweden, has always prided itself on being at the top of its game when it comes to production efficiency and quality of final product. When it needed to further enhance its TMP’s capacity and efficiency – but crucially keep costs to a minimum – ANDRITZ was at hand to provide a tailor-made solution.

Xerium acquisition boosts ANDRITZ Fabrics and Rolls to full-line supplier.

Södra Cell is one of those far-sighted northern European pulp producers that is constantly looking for ways to become fossil-fuel free and to make high-grade products in the most environmentally sound ways possible. ANDRITZ recently aided Södra Cell towards its sustainability target by supplying the latest in evaporation plant technology to its Mörrum mill in southern Sweden.

When Germany introduced new emissions targets, UPM’s Schongau mill stayed ahead of the game.

The shortest route to fiber quality. Innovative GPS navigates shortest route to fiber quality at lowest cost. Like your smartphone's GPS can guide you almost anywhere in the world, the "papermaking GPS" guides you in making the right choices about fiber mix, applied energy, and paper quality. It’s significantly reducing trial and error on your machine and saving time and money.

The improvement in accuracy has made simulation a fundamental predictive and diagnostic tool in process industries.

More than three decades ago, Pietro Saccomano co-founded Novimpianti, an Italian firm specializing in air systems and reducing energy consumption. Earlier this year, Novimpianti became ANDRITZ Novimpianti, part of the ANDRITZ Paper & Tissue Division. We spoke about the deal with Pietro Saccomano and Klaus Gissing, ANDRITZ Paper & Tissue.

“The good times are returning” according to Oliver Lansdell, Director, Hawkins Wright, provider of market intelligence and analytical services to the international pulp, paper, and biomass industries. And it seems the pulp industry, in particular, is enjoying something of a renaissance. There are various reasons for this optimism, including increasing demand for virgin fiber content in tissue and hygiene products, the exciting growth of renewable packaging, and strong demand in niche applications such as wood-based textile fibers and other new markets in the bioeconomy.

The Pulp Drying System combines selected areas of development into one drying line.

Workplace: Metsä Group’s Äänekoski bioproduct mill, Finland; Position: Vice President of the bioproduct mill Metsä Group gave permission to the SPECTRUM editorial team in early October 2018 to share a DAY IN THE LIFE of Ilkka Poikolainen, Vice President of the bioproduct mill in Äänekoski.

Interview with President and CEO Wolfgang Leitner.

The world’s most modern research center for tissue in Graz.

The ANDRITZ answer to the digital transformation is: OPP.

Technology, sustainability, and profitability form a dynamic entity.

The Montrose hydroelectric power plant has been using the Metris DiOMera monitoring system from ANDRITZ since 2016. Tony Nott, Operations Director at Alterra Power, and Operations Engineer Nicholas Adams talk about their experiences and plans.

voestalpine Automotive Components in Dettingen produces 750,000 parts for the car industry every week. The innovative smartphone app from Schuler – a member of the ANDRITZ GROUP – provides valuable assistance here.

A totally integrated automation solution for tissue producers is on display at the PrimeLine Tissue Innovation and Applications Center in Graz.

Mobile capabilities of the Metris Platform can be scaled to the information needs of each customer.

Tiloth, India

HAVING IT ALL–TOP QUALITY SCREENING & HIGH LEVEL RUNNABILITY

Our membrane filter presses helped remediate more than 13 miles of contaminated riverbed in the Lower Fox River in Wisconsin, with each filter press capable of producing 18 tons of filter cake every hour.

They may consist of a group of smaller trends and phenomena. The most important ones are technological development, population growth and urbanization, shifts in economic power, and increasing environmental awareness caused by resource stress and climate change. For the pulp and paper industry, these megatrends emerge as both opportunities and challenges.

Due to the contaminants in recycled fiber, dispersion is a key process step. The previous state-of-the-art dispersion operated with an inlet feed consistency of 25-30%.

E.B. Campbell, Canada

MINIMIZING MERCURY, SOx, AND PARTICLE MATTERS

Is the industry ready to replace fossil-fuel-based products?

Our installed base of more than 55,000 solid/liquid separation solutions and systems means we take service extremely seriously. We work closely with all of our customers to ensure a lifetime of efficiency and reliability.

Videowall technology for pulp mills.

It sits like a gleaming city surrounded by a sea of green. Fibria’s Três Lagoas pulp mill is now one of the world’s largest pulp making facilities. With the new Horizonte 2 line starting up at the mill in August 2017, the company is on target to produce over 7.25 million tonnes a year of top quality, prime eucalyptus pulp.

Opening up a world of possibilities in tissue

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has often made it abundantly clear that its ambition is to be the No.1 supplier of pulp and paper around the world. The company’s last 2.8 million tonnes a year development, OKI, is a signal that those ambitions remain firmly in place. ANDRITZ technology is right at the center of the greenfield mill development in the province of South Sumatra, Indonesia.

Are you looking to boost output for growing markets? Need to lower operating costs with an automation system that’s ahead of the curve? How can you ensure your next product innovation is error-free? And how will you guarantee 24/7 production?

With a background in both physics and business administration, Rosén works for RISE in Sweden’s capital, Stockholm. RISE is a research and development institute with a dedicated Bioeconomy Division focused on pioneering developments for the forest products industry.

Sun Paper’s Honghe mill, based in Shandong Province, China, needed a tailor-made handling system to process rejects from two OCC production lines feeding its PM 31 and PM 32 paper machines. ANDRITZ successfully delivered one system in 2016 which has been quickly followed by a second.

Taison Group’s Twin PrimeLineSTs

Indian packaging and paperboard giant, ITC Paperboard & Specialty Papers, is well on its way to achieving the challenging ambition of becoming 100% self-sufficient in local wood and fiber supply for its Bhadrachalam Mill in the state of Telangana, Southern India.

Key to expansion in North America

Highlights worldwide

Foresee digitally – enhanced potential for interactive operation and maintenance

According to Rod Young, RISI’s Chief Economic Advisor, the turnaround of dissolving pulp supply and demand over the last decade has been nothing short of amazing

State-of-the-art technology for fish-friendly design and Mini-Grid solutions are the main topics of ths HYDRO News issue.

Short news about different water power projects around the world

New technologies for Lignin Recovery and sulfuric acid production in a kraft pulp mill

Fish-friendly designs by ANDRITZ HYDRO

Dnipro I, Ukraine

Atlanta, USA

A rebuild for premium production

Rock Island, USA

Nam Na 1, Vietnam

Fish-friendly designs by ANDRITZ HYDRO

Lauca, Angola

Pimental, Brazil

There is a lot of news available about Google, Uber, and the automobile manufacturers’ efforts to develop autonomous automobiles (i.e., unattended and self-driving vehicles capable of sensing their environment and navigating without human input).

Sogamoso, Colombia

With more than 100 years’ experience in the food industry, serving everyone from multinationals to smaller family operations, we can promise you one thing: your goals come first.

Xayaburi, Lao PDR

With installations in 24 countries, the DD-Washer is clearly preferred for fiberline washing applications. To support this installed base, ANDRITZ has developed a full range of monitoring, diagnostic, and support services to reduce lifecycle costs and keep availability high.

Interview with Franz Kropp about Chaudière Falls

Graz Puntigam, Austria

Mini Grid Solution

Getting to the heart of industry matters

Yen Nghia, Vietnam

More power for Grimselstrom

New Compact turbines for more power

Output increase of about 20%

Minimizing environmental impact

Compact Workshop (Pakistan), Hydro Vision International and AFRICA 2017

Over recent years ANDRITZ HYDRO has launched Customer Day events in various countries with great success.

New opportunities for pumped storage, development of the global hydropower market

Abdelmoumen, Morocco

Alto Tâmega, Portugal

Callahuanca, Peru

Kaleshwaram, India

Auto-oscillation protection by ANDRITZ Hydro

Fengning 2, China

What is the future role of pumped storage and how can this technology contribute to sustainable development goals?

On the road to a 100% renewable electricity future

Hongrin-Léman, Switzerland

Location India

We helped one of the world’s largest starch producers improve productivity from 400 to 1,000 tons per day of commercial dry starch with three fully automated Krauss-Maffei peeler centrifuges.

The classic children’s nursery rhyme continues … “you’ll be in for a big surprise”.

Whakamaru, New Zealand

Vianden, Luxembourg

After starting out in the fiberglass industry in 1984, George Reynolds joined ANDRITZ North America in 2005 as an Account Manager specifically focusing on stock preparation and recycled fiber mill customers on the West Coast.

Teesta Stage III, India

Mwadingusha, DR Congo

Paraiso, Guaca, Betania - Colombia

San José 1 and 2, Bolivia

Vrangfoss, Norway

Need to boost ore throughput? Improve your separation of precious minerals? Whatever your mineral processing needs, we help you reduce operating costs and improve quality Think of us as the solid/liquid separation experts.

Lower Kaleköy, Turkey

Meygen, Scotland

Swansea Bay, Wales

Highlights worldwide

Hongrin Lémans Extension, Switzerland

On track

Saves time and money

Bulb turbines for more power

First Mini Compact for Brazil

Order execution in a record speed

Energizing the Himalayas

A new experience

ANDRITZ Hydro is sponsoring a ten year exhibition at the "technisches museum wien"

Our ANDRITZ C-Press helped upgrade one outdated potable water treatment plant to treat more than 2,500 m3 of potable water per day, with minimal sludge production, low maintenance, and full remote monitoring.

We supplied dewatering and drying equipment for one of the world’s largest production lines for sodium bicarbonate, with an annual capacity of 100,000 tones and 15% less energy consumption than conventional technologies.

RheoScan, our automated optical polymer measurement and dosage system, helped one wastewater plant to achieve 34% lower polymer consumption in the belt thickener alone, and more than 10% increase in annual biogas production.

Chenaux GS, Canada

The PMC magnetite dewatering plant lies just outside one of the world’s most biodiverse national parks. But excessive pond usage had resulted in oversaturation, 20% longer drying times, and increased environmental risks.

Challenging municipal budgets. Water shortages. A need for renewable energy. Today, there’s simply no room for waste. Getting the most efficient separation is essential not just to profitability but ensuring sustainable growth.

Need to boost ore throughput? Improve your separation of precious minerals? Whatever your mineral processing needs, we help you reduce operating costs and improve quality Think of us as the solid/liquid separation experts.

Metsä Group’s Äänekoski bioproduct mill has been the talk of the global pulp and paper industry for some time now with its outstanding environmental efficiencies and ambitions for new products derived from wood. Starting up in August 2017, ANDRITZ supplied crucial technology to help make the Äänekoski bioproduct mill a showcase production site for the 21st Century.

Foshan - Hanoi - Kathmandu

Autonomous automobiles use a variety of techniques to gather data about their surroundings and feed this data to advanced control systems that interpret the inputs and identify appropriate navigation paths. The development of autonomous pulp mills using Metris OPP is following a similar path – and Eldorado Celulose is an early adopter of this technology. The results have had a big economic payback.