MM Group orders continuous cooking plant from ANDRITZ

ANDRITZ will replace the mill’s batch digester cooking plant with a LoSolids continuous cooking plant designed to switch between softwood and hardwood pulp production. This investment will significantly reduce energy consumption and CO₂ emissions at the MM Kwidzyn mill.

Filip Drofiak, Chairman of the Board of MM Kwidzyn, comments: “By adopting this advanced technology, we can considerably lower our energy consumption while gaining the flexibility to process both softwood and hardwood. These improvements support our commitment to sustainability and strengthen MM Kwidzyn’s competitive edge and energy independence, ensuring we remain at the forefront of board, paper, and pulp production.”

ANDRITZ will supply a single-vessel digester enabling homogeneous cooking and process flexibility, as well as a Turbofeed chip feeding system with new Diamondback chip bin that maximizes chip presteaming and pulp quality. The delivery also includes a vapor reboiler to improve digester heat recovery and minimize odorous gas emissions. Start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026.

MM Kwidzyn is one of Europe’s leading producers of premium virgin fibre cartonboard for pharmaceutical and luxury packaging, packaging kraft papers (PKP), uncoated fine papers (UFP) for office and offset printing, as well as pulp.

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ANDRITZ GROUP
International technology group ANDRITZ provides advanced plants, equipment, services, and digital solutions for a wide range of industries, including pulp and paper, metals, hydropower, environmental, and others. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in Austria, the publicly listed group employs about 30,000 people at 280 locations in over 80 countries.

As a global leader in technology and innovation, ANDRITZ is committed to fostering progress that benefits customers, partners, employees, society, and the environment. The company’s growth is driven by sustainable solutions enabling the green transition, advanced digitalization for highest industrial performance, and comprehensive services that maximize the value of customers’ plants over their entire life cycle. ANDRITZ. FOR GROWTH THAT MATTERS.

ANDRITZ PULP & PAPER
ANDRITZ Pulp & Paper provides sustainable technology, automation, and service solutions for the production of all types of pulp, paper, board and tissue. The technologies and services focus on increased production efficiency, lower overall operating costs as well as innovative decarbonization strategies and autonomous plant operation.

The product portfolio also includes boilers for power generation, various nonwoven technologies, and panelboard (MDF) production systems. With waste-to-value recycling, shredding and energy solutions, waste and by-product streams from production are converted into valuable secondary raw materials as well as into sustainable resources for energy generation. State-of-the-art IIoT technologies as part of Metris digitalization solutions complete the comprehensive product offering.