Key Equipment: Let your performance grow with the new innovative pulp drying system from ANDRITZ

The Pulp Drying System designed by ANDRITZ is a new and innovative system that combines selected areas of development into one complete, reliable, high-performance drying line.

In designing the pulp drying system, ANDRITZ has produced a high-performing, low-maintenance, all-in-one drying line unlike any other drying system, while also considering aspects relating to health, safety, and the environment. The new features are designed to achieve greater reliability and flexibility, making an efficient and reliable drying line that produces top pulp quality.

THE NEW CONCEPT INCLUDES:

Patented sheet dryer that increases evaporation capacity for higher performance
Patented system of web position sensors and a self-adjusting turning guide roll
Patented broke detection system for fast and reliable restarts
New closed-draw feature to reduce sheet breaks
State-of-the-art features for fast, safe dryer cleaning

HEALTH AND SAFETY

As well as high operational functionality and performance, the pulp drying system has been designed with health and safety in mind, as can be seen in the many automated features incorporated into the system. The new design has focused on less direct operator contact with the components of the drying line and, consequently, less risk of accidents.

WITH THE PULP DRYING SYSTEM, ANDRITZ HAS OPTIMIZED PULP DRYING PERFORMANCE BY INTRODUCING KEY FACTORS SUCH AS:

Higher operational runability
Improved performance and reliability
High-quality pulp
Reduced operating costs
Increased health and safety performance
Improved environmental conditions

Complete fiberline with cooking, washing, and bleaching systems.

Ten years on: Eldorado continues to run … faster and faster

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!

Henan Tianbang: Taking Control

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.

ANDRITZ & Novimpianti - Mutual respect

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.

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Södra Cell Mörrum - Target: Zero fossil fuels

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.

Market Trends: PULP TRENDS

“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.