A week in the life of Berry Wiersum

A Showcase in Efficiency and Sustainability

We need to reduce the energy our buildings consume to combat climate change. ANDRITZ and naturheld have therefore pushed the sustainability and technical boundaries in wood-based insulation.

The Pulp & Paper business area at ANDRITZ is the largest business area within the company with an order intake of more than EUR 3 billion and roughly 14,000 employees. This global business area covers the pulp and paper industries, as well as the rapidly growing textile sector.

Cooperation project in circular economy for used Forming Fabrics and Press Felts started.

ANDRITZ once again teamed up with students from the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) when it was looking for a solution to reuse heat and steam at pulp mills.

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) can make an important contribution to the urgently needed reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. ANDRITZ has various types of solutions in its portfolio that help customers to remove CO₂ from their flue gases which can be stored, or processed for further use in making other products.

Textiles made from cellulose fibers are becoming more and more important as the world rapidly moves away from fossil-fuel derived products and seeks more environmentally friendly raw materials. ANDRITZ has developed the A-ConFlexTM continuous cooking method for bleached dissolving pulp production to make it easy for pulp producers to switch between dissolving pulp and kraft pulp according to market demand.

The ANDRITZ recovery boiler product group has performed in excellent fashion over recent years with the sales team securing a high percentage of the market across the globe. But who are they, where do they work, and what makes them so special?

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.

Ultra-low emissions, maximum energy efficiency

Completing the ANDRITZ washing range.

Recovering and Reusing Secondary Heat Across Pulp Mill Islands

How do you balance old and new at paper mills?

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.

From fiber to paper on the reel including recycling

With Significant Environmental and Financial Returns.The Huge Benefits of an Approach System Rebuild

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

when operating in the pulp and paper industry

Over the past 10 years Klabin has been working virtually non-stop to bring its Puma projects I and II to life in Paraná state, southern Brazil. With the Puma I pulp mill starting up in 2016 and Puma II phase I and phase II starting up in 2021 and mid – 2023 respectively, the company has succeeded in creating an integrated mill that virtually knows no bounds when it comes to pulp, paper, and board qualities, types, grades, and ranges.

ANDRITZ partners with OTORIO to safeguard production operations

Often described as the “beating heart” of a pulp mill, the recovery boiler has come a long way since it was first invented nearly 100 years ago. Although recovery boilers carry out a virtually irreplaceable function at pulp mills, including the recovering inorganic chemicals, burning organic chemicals and recovering heat for generating energy, there is still work to be done when it comes to emissions - especially NOx emissions.

Transforming a pulp mill into a biorefinery for renewable fuels

Occupational safety while working on pulp mill projects is a major topic at European Pulp Industry Sector (EPIS), an international non-profit association of market pulp producers.

Metsä Fibre's new Kemi bioproduct mill is set to become a showcase in sustainability for the global industry. ANDRITZ was chosen to supply environmentally efficient technology to achieve the mill’s Zero Waste goal.

The pulp and paper industry has come a long way when it comes to the digitalization of technology and processes. Now the use of IIoT solutions and data management in production has become virtually the norm. However, with the benefits also come the risks, in this case, the real-world risk of cyber-attacks.

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

There is increasing pressure for tissue producers to improve efficiency and reduce energy consumption. ANDRITZ has been busy developing solutions which are innovative, efficient, and minimize the consumption of resources – without compromising on product quality.

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.

How can circularity be applied to paper machine clothing?

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!

What opportunities are there for capturing and utilizing CO₂ at pulp and paper mills?

Biomass Gasification for Lime Kilns — Going fossil fuel free is an urgent sustainability topic that has become even more critical due to the current global energy crisis. It is clear we must reduce our dependence on fossil fuel.

Is this the very best showcase of sustainability at an integrated pulp and paper mill?

Reutlingen, Germany, September 2022. Conservation of resources, reduction of energy consumption, CO₂ reduction, closed-loop circular economy - these are all firmly established cornerstones of ANDRITZ's sustainability strategy.

Paper and Board complete line supplier

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.