MAJOR ORDERS
Separation Technologies
- Two large filter presses will be delivered for a titanium dioxide plant in the Ukraine.
- A total of six large filter presses for dewatering of kaolin was ordered by customers in Brazil.
- Four Hyperbaric Filters (HBFs) for fine coal dewatering will be delivered to the Ukraine and China.
- Three centrifuges with a diameter of 1,100 mm were sold to a customer in Saudi Arabia for dewatering of HDPE (High-Density Poly-Ethylene).
- Nine large centrifuges will be delivered to various plants worldwide for the production of melamine; four centrifuges were sold for a potash plant in Russia.
- A customer in Korea ordered four large centrifuges for the production of bisphenol. A similar plant in Taiwan will use the same type of centrifuges.
- The Division was awarded a contract to deliver six large screens for the storm water overflow system of the city of Detroit, USA.
- A gold washing company in Russia decided to look for a new filter press supplier and bought two large Andritz filter presses due to their superior reliability.
Thermal Process Technologies
- Sodawerke Staßfurth, Germany ordered a 1,000 t/d fluid bed plant for conversion of light soda ash from the Solvay process to dense ash using Andritz’s monohydrate process.
- The Division was awarded a contract to deliver a sludge drying plant with a water evaporation capacity of 4.9 t/h for the city of Antalya. This will be the first plant of its kind in Turkey.
- Schwenk Cement, Germany placed an order for a belt dryer plant with a water evaporation capacity of 10 t/h for Bernburg, Germany; this customer had ordered an 8 t/h plant for the Karlstadt, Germany factory in 2004.
- Ticona Germany, a company of the Celanese Group, ordered two fluidized bed dryers for POM, a specialty polymer. The planned extension of Frankfurt Airport contributed to this project as this is part of Ticona’s plant relocation from Kelsterbach to Hoechst Industrial Park.
- A belt dryer plant with a water evaporation capacity of 3 t/h will be supplied for Radom, Poland; this is the first belt dryer order from Poland.
- A belt dryer with 8.15 t/h water evaporation capacity was sold to Nuh Cimento, one of the largest cement producers in Turkey.
- A major PVC producer in the USA placed an order for a turnkey fluid bed drying and cooling system for Suspension-PVC (S-PVC), including mechanical dewatering with Andritz Bird solid-bowl decanter centrifuges; the plant will be located in the Midwest of the USA.
- The city of Cape Coral, Florida, USA, ordered a drying system (2 lines with 5 t/h water evaporation) for its new wastewater treatment plant expansion. Similar plants have been constructed by Andritz in Florida at Jacksonville, Pinellas County, Hillsborough County, and Bonita Springs.