Metris success stories and news

ANDRITZ Automation has supplied many digital automation solutions for various kinds of process industries.

Find a selection of some success stories, recent projects and press releases below.

Success stories

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Data analysis and advanced controls to generate digester kappa stability

Data analysis and advanced controls to generate digester kappa stability

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Implementation of advanced controls for Suzano Aracruz' Lime Kiln to reduce gas consumption

A partnership between ANDRITZ and Suzano Aracruz reduces the specific consumption of Natural Gas (NG) through the implementation of advanced controls for the lime kiln.

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Advanced controls increase the stability of drying machines at Eldorado Brazil mill

Advanced OPP controls optimized process variations in Eldorado Brasil's industrial mill, generating greater operational stability, availability of drying machines and, consequently, an increase in average production.

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Metris OPP optimizes Suzano Jacareí's digester and generates greater stability in the process

Suzano's Jacareí Mill saw the cooking process being standardized with Metris OPP. Learn how ANDRITZ's advanced controls were able to reduce the standard deviation of the Kappa number and to increase pulp mill productivity.

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Suzano increases availability in Drying with intelligent control in partnership with ANDRITZ

Understand how the partnership with ANDRITZ has contributed to advancing the pulp mill's digital transformation process.

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Electrical system supply of the new Coalspur mine in Hinton, Alberta, Canada

ANDRITZ worked with Coalspur to prioritize and fast track key equipment acquisitions and delivery, expediting the engineering process to ensure that Coalspur‘s construction schedule was met. ANDRITZ designed and developed 12 prefabricated electrical houses (E-houses) furnished with VFDs, MCCs, PLC panels, HVAC and fire suppression.

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Suzano optimizes the evaporation process in partnership with ANDRITZ

Learn about this history of one of Suzano's Units in São Paulo that has generated significant savings in the plant's evaporation process by using ANDRITZ's Metris UX technology for digital transformation of its processes.

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Does digitalization make production more efficient?

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

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How to make intelligent & efficient use of data?

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

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Picture this: Critical data from live feed in the recovery boiler

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.

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Planning ahead with Industry 4.0

It´s all about the data

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Metris Vibe - a health check for your plant

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.

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Smart bleaching = Major chemical savings

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.

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Montes del Plata: Strengthening drying line performance

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.

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How do you control industrial plants and entire factories or mills very efficiently?

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.

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A better way to boost screen performance

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.

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Gaining your Automation Independence

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?

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Digital gold

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.

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Foresee digitally with Metris

A portfolio of ANDRITZ digital solutions.

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Metris OPP

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

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Automation: Metris condition monitoring

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.

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Turning a shutdown into a pitstop

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.

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Cybersecurity

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

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IDEAS Digital Twin in Process Industries

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

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TechNews: A-Recovery+ chemical recovery solution

Allows mills to see the chemical cycle in a shining new light.

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Automation: Enhanced. Embedded. Eco-friendly.

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

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Automation MobileApps: Information in the palm of your hand

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

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Automation: Metris Augmented Reality Glasses

Foresee digitally – enhanced potential for interactive operation and maintenance

Current press releases

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ANDRITZ starts up extra-wide carding machine for Italian nonwovens producer
2023-09-21

International technology group ANDRITZ has successfully started up the new carding machine and opening/blending line it delivered to Albis in Roasio, Vercelli, Italy.

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Lotus Teknik Tekstil invests in ANDRITZ Metris All-In-One digitalization platform for its new nonwovens line
2023-08-29

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from Lotus Teknik Tekstil A.Ş., Türkiye, to install a Metris All-In-One digitalization platform for its new WetlaceTM CP nonwovens production line from ANDRITZ.

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ANDRITZ introduces new spunlace pilot line for natural and recycled fibers
2023-06-13

ANDRITZ keeps developing its sustainability approach in the nonwoven industry based on comprehensive know-how and innovations.

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ANDRITZ strengthens its digitalization portfolio to model autonomous operation based on digital twin technology
2023-03-22

International technology group ANDRITZ has acquired Imagine That Inc. (ITI), a California, USA-based simulation software company.

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ANDRITZ to leverage KCF Technologies machine health monitoring solutions to improve customer plant safety
2023-02-02

International technology group ANDRITZ and KCF Technologies, a leading provider of machine health solutions, announced their global collaboration today.

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ANDRITZ to install Metris predictive maintenance system at Welspun Advanced Material
2022-10-14

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from Welspun Advanced Materials, India, to supply a Metris predictive maintenance system for its spunlace production line at the Telangana plant.

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ANDRITZ to supply SMART power boiler remote service using Metris BOA web platform to the Netherlands
2022-07-14

International technology group ANDRITZ has received a five-year SMART service contract from BMC Moerdijk in the Netherlands to supply a Metris BOA platform including KPI dashboards and boiler operator advisor apps as well as automatically generated performance reports.

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ANDRITZ enhances all its automation solution deliveries with a high level of cyber security protection
2022-06-03

International technology group ANDRITZ has successfully implemented new processes and tools for equipping all of its automation solutions with a high level of cyber security.

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ANDRITZ presents comprehensive pulp and paper product portfolio for sustainable technologies at PulPaper 2022
2022-05-31

International technology group ANDRITZ will present its comprehensive pulp and paper product portfolio for sustainable technologies at PulPaper tradeshow, booth # 6b50, from June 7 to June 9, 2022, in Helsinki, Finland.

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ANDRITZ presents innovative product portfolio for the water, wastewater, and waste management industries at IFAT 2022
2022-05-04

International technology group ANDRITZ will be exhibiting its broad range of proven and new technologies, services, and automation solutions for the water, wastewater, and waste management industries at the IFAT 2022 show in Munich, Germany.

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