Major orders

Separation Technologies

  • Alunorte, Brazil awarded Andritz another contract for five large hyperbaric disc filters for the dewatering of bauxite.

  • Clark County, USA ordered eight large centrifuges to dewater the sludge from the City of Las Vegas.

  • Three special censor centrifuges were sold to Entec, USA for separating the various synthetics which are used for carpets to obtain pure products for recycling.

  • American Power, USA awarded a contract for five (2 x 2 m) filter presses to dewater the sludge from flue gas desulphurization at two locations.

  • Three large centrifuges will be supplied for an HDPE plant in Saudi Arabia.

  • A number of orders were received from the Baosteel Group, China to dewater various sludges from steel production.

  • The Division will deliver large filter presses for three drinking water preparation plants in Northern Ireland.

Thermal Process Technologies

  • Beijing Drainage Group, China ordered a sewage sludge drying plant for its Qinghe wastewater treatment plant. The drying plant is based on the fluid bed technology and comprises two lines, each with 6.5 t/h evaporation capacity.

  • Four lines of a drum drying system (DDS) for the biggest sewage treatment plant in Europe on the island of Psyttalia, Greece were ordered by the general contractor J/V Actor Athena (joint venture of the companies Actor S.A. and Athena S.A.) for the municipality of Athens.  This plant will dry up to 385,000 tons of sludge per year.

  • The municipality of Bilten, Switzerland ordered a sewage sludge drying plant, based on Andritz’s proven belt drying technology.

  • Manatee County, Florida, USA awarded a contract to design and build a bio-solids drying system for three wastewater plants. The plants will utilize the successful Andritz Drum Drying System (DDS); they will be located on a county landfill site and will process 200 t/d of bio-solids using landfill gas to fulfill energy requirements.  

  • Ortec Industries SA, France ordered a belt drying system for municipal sludge.

  • For Xin Jiang Zhongtai Chemical Co. Ltd, China, Andritz will deliver a large fluidized bed drying system with a capacity of 30 t/h for S-PVC powder.  

  • A fluid bed dryer for solidification of 5,500 t/a calcium chloride brine, a by-product of soda ash production, was ordered by Tangshan Sanyou International Industry Co. Ltd., China.

  • The fifth system for sludge drying was ordered by Southern Water Services for its Ashford, Kent wastewater treatment plant. The drum drying system will have a water evaporation capacity of 7,000 l/h and will process a total of 75.000 t/a of dewatered sludge.