Environment

Complete solutions for safe, efficient, and reliable separation

Ensuring the drinking water supply, treating municipal wastewater, handling municipal solid waste or biofuels and biogas residues, or exploring new, sustainable energy sources, or adapting to environmental regulations: The right mechanical and thermal separation solutions are vital to providing safe and affordable living conditions for people around the world. We help to desalinate more water with less waste, reduce chemical inputs, conserve water, enable water re-use, or generate efficient fuel sources that can be converted into new products. Whether your operations are industrial or municipal, treating solid or liquid waste, producing safe drinking water or new biomass products, no one has more technical solutions, services, or experience to support your needs than ANDRITZ.

A broad portfolio of innovative, sustainable technologies combined with process know-how

Rising populations need more clean drinking water, more facilities for handling wastewater and municipal solid waste, and more renewable energy sources. This in combination with new environmental regulations – and the need to conserve energy and resources – poses significant challenges. But with more than 100 years of experience in environmental separation, we know how to help you tackle them. By combining state-of-the-art separation technologies with world-class process expertise and proven services, we help you achieve better results with sustainable efficiency for the full lifecycle of your plant.

ANDRITZ offers more than machines – we provide automation systems like Metris addIQ RheoScan or Metris addIQ ARGOS, using AI-driven tools to optimize your processes. These smart solutions reduce polymer consumption, lower operating costs, and stabilize process performance. Real-time optical measurement ensures polymer dosing is continuously adjusted to changing sludge conditions, preventing overdosing, improving cake dryness, and avoiding unnecessary costs for polymer, disposal, and labor. Automated control works 24/7, optimizing polymer and torque settings to keep your process efficient and cost-effective.

Our portfolio comprises a broad range of technologies and services for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment (including desalination applications such as brine dewatering), water treatment and water re-use and for thermal utilization of sludge, such as water intake screens, fine and coarse screens, underdrain system, belt and drum thickeners, screw presses, belt presses, decanter centrifuges, filter presses, belt dryers, drum dryers, paddle dryers and fluid bed dryers.

In addition, we supply complete process equipment for biomass drying, including wet milling, fine milling, and pelleting, and torrefaction systems for coal replacement as well as complete energy-generating systems, from raw material to electric power and/or steam generation. Dewatering and drying technologies for MSW, RDF and organic waste round off our comprehensive portfolio.

Let’s be brilliant – together

Investing in R&D on solid/liquid separation tasks is critical to meeting the demands of tomorrow’s environmental industry. That’s why we collaborate continuously with customers and leading universities to go beyond the limits of current technologies. Whether you are looking for cutting-edge wastewater treatment technologies, innovative renewable energy sources, or a more straightforward performance upgrade, you can find ways to do it better. To help you optimize for real-world conditions, our unique capabilities make it possible to run full-scale production tests at our labs or carry out on-site testing and trial runs for trouble-free startup – no matter where you are located.