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Major orders
- The largest single order ever received in the Group’s history was the contract signed in September with CMPC Celulosa S.A. to supply a complete fiberline - from digester to finished bales of market pulp - and chemical recovery systems for a new pulping line at the Santa Fe, Chile mill.
Andritz will provide the systems for pulp production and pulp drying/baling - as well as the chemical recovery boiler and white liquor plant. All systems will be delivered on an EPC basis. In addition, CMPC ordered two high-efficiency multi-stage DD washers and oxygen delignification equipment from Andritz for their Laja, Chile mill.
- Celulosa Arauco y Constitución ordered a woodroom, recausticizing, and lime kiln for its new Itata mill in Chile.
- Estonian Cell selected Andritz to deliver a complete hardwood chemi-mechanical pulp mill from the woodyard to the finished pulp bales. The greenfield mill will be built in Kunda, Estonia.
- In Russia, Andritz will supply a complete wood and chip processing installation for SC Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill.
- Andra Pradesh Paper Mills of India (APPM) ordered a new fiberline, chemical recovery island, and woodyard upgrade from Andritz to increase pulping capacity at its Rajahmundry mill. The new fiberline incorporates the most modern, efficient, and environmentally-friendly technologies in the Indian market.
- In Canada, Irving Pulp & Paper ordered a complete lime kiln system. This is the first LMD lime kiln system to be installed in Canada.
- Andritz High Energy Recovery Boiler (HERB) technology, proven at the successful Pietarsaari installation of UPM-Kymmene in Finland, is quickly gaining acceptance as the technology of choice. New recovery boilers utilizing HERB technology have been ordered by SCA in Sweden and Weyerhaeuser in the USA.
- JSC Kotlas Pulp & Paper ordered a new six-effect evaporation plant. This is the first completely new evaporation plant to be installed in Russia in over a decade.
- Based upon their positive experience with the Andritz OPE® (Overall Production Efficiency) service contract for the white liquor plant at their Joutseno mill in Finland, Metsä-Botnia expanded Andritz’s scope to include the entire fiberline.
- As a result of its excellent reputation in MDF, Andritz received 14 additional orders during the year for refining systems - eleven from China, two from Russia, and one from Austria.
- Andritz sold two P-RC™ APMP mechanical pulping lines to Jiaozuo and Ningxia Meili in China, a refiner system to Norske Skog in Brazil, a complete RTS™ line to Germany, and an upgrade of conventional Thermo-Mechanical Pulping (TMP) to RTS™ energy-saving technology to Norske Skog in France.
- Andritz will provide the complete chip impregnation system and a complete bleaching, washing, and drying line for M-real’s new BCTMP mill to be built in Kaskinen, Finland.
- Fiber preparation systems were sold to Holmen Peninsular of Spain, Shandong Huatai of China, and Perlen Paper of Switzerland. The strong market position of the FibreFlow® Drum was underscored by additional orders from the USA, Korea, Finland, Spain, and China.
- Andritz will supply another CrescentFormer tissue machine and stock preparation equipment to Hengan in China. This is the third consecutive installation of an Andritz machine by Hengan. The ICT Group of Italy has also ordered a CrescentFormer machine and stock preparation for its greenfield mill to be built in Spain.
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