Wood Fiber Substrate

WOOD FIBER SUBSTRATE – ANDRITZ innovations for individual solutions

The vision

“Our job and passion is to design and offer full automated production lines for wood fiber to the Horti- Agriculture industry in order to produce a sustainable substrate as alternative for peat.

Associated with our key values – Open-mindedness - Customer orientation - Sustainability - Innovation spirit - Courage – our vision is to offer customers the unique opportunity, to be a substantial part for the global change, while providing innovative and sustainable technologies with passion for wood.”

THOMAS KAISER

Director Wood Fiber Substrate

Why wood fiber and why now?

Nowadays the utilization of wood fiber for individual substrates supports the upcoming regulations for growing media and anticipates the new restrictions for peat foreseen in many countries for the near future as well. Consider that wood fiber can be easily used as integration to peat and together with other components.

Furthermore, wood fiber is considered by many companies and science as the best substitute and will be used as sustainable alternative for peat-free substrates on the market. Wood fiber is an excellent and environmentally friendly component for the substrate production.

ANDRITZ technologies

As technology leader in the Wood Industry for Panelboard and Pulp & Paper applications, ANDRITZ supports the customers during the whole lifetime of the equipment.

We provide complete plants and services according to the needed demands: from the wood processing, through leading edge fiberizing technologies with new Pressafiner and Refiner Equipment, to the final wood fiber preparation. ANDRITZ has the capability to fulfill individual market requirements to increase utilization of wood fiber for substrates.

Our highly motivated and experienced core Team, together with several colleges in ANDRITZ, constantly works on this.

Benefits of wood fiber production with ANDRITZ technologies

Secure your fiber supply
Reduce dependency on external suppliers and gain full control over fiber availability, quality, and costs. A compact, dedicated production installation allows a cost-effective own production of wood fiber for substrate mixtures.
Produce the fiber quality your market requires
Control the fiberizing process to get wood fiber with the required structure, quality and consistency. Flexible technology enables production of a wide range of fiber qualities for different substrate applications.
Benefit from proven fiber expertise
ANDRITZ combines decades of fiber processing know-how with the pressafiner and refiner technologies. The latest developments with the Substrate Pressafiner and Refiner machines are dedicated solutions for the substrate sector.
Reduce project risk
From trials and concept development to full-scale production and service support, ANDRITZ is your partner throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Create value from local raw materials
Transform locally available raw material resources into high-value substrate components and strengthen your competitive position.

Substrate Pressafiner

The Substrate Pressafiner by ANDRITZ is robust and designed for a long service life.

Based on high-reliable existing equipment consisting of several well-proven technical solutions and also innovative patented concepts, the Substrate Pressafiner by ANDRITZ offers the right choice for economical operations. • The Substrate Pressafiner provides you control of wood fiber properties independent of raw material variations: wood chips, recycled wood and also wood waste of different origins.

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ANDRITZ SUBSTRATE PRESSAFINER

Substrate Refiner

The Substrate Refiner by ANDRITZ offers outstanding fiber quality, that is reproduced from season to season.

For complex applications where a wide range of wood fiber qualities with consistent homogeneity is required, a comprehensive range of individual solutions is available. As a global technology leader in the panelboard industry, ANDRITZ supports its customers with various refiner technologies that fully meet specific customer requirements.
The Substrate Refiner produces wood fibers using fresh wood chips as raw material, optionally also in combination with recycled wood.

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ANDRITZ SUBSTRATE REFINER

The ANDRITZ Substrate Pressafiner & Refiner were selected for the Innovation Lab and were exposed at the Austrian Pavillon for the EXPO 2025 under the category “Green Tech”.

The ANDRITZ Substrate Pressafiner & Refiner received the Excellent Selection Award 2025, they stand out for their outstanding design concepts, technical implementation and social value.