Austria-headed international technology company Andritz AG (ANDRITZ) has announced that it has acquired the Swedish company PulpEye AB, a technology company focusing on online applications and services for the global pulp and paper industry.
PulpEye provides pulp, paper, and board producers with a wide range of proven online pulp analyzers, measurements, and controls ranging from chip quality, kappa to fiber properties and more throughout the process.
Since 2002, PulpEye products have contributed to stabilized and higher pulp quality, process efficiency, and reduced energy consumption in pulp production.
The acquisition complements ANDRITZ’s capabilities and extensive portfolio of Smart Series, and ANDRITZ Intelligent Instruments by adding the core pulp quality analyzers and measurements into the group’s automation and digitalization portfolio.
The deal also leverages the group’s position to provide total solutions combining measurements, analyzers, advanced process control, and optimization, as well as a broad range of services.
ANDRITZ will continue to invest in the further development of the PulpEye product line and will establish a dedicated service network to provide customers with global support.
We are very pleased to welcome the PulpEye team with its excellent analyzer portfolio to ANDRITZ. This acquisition further strengthens our offering in automation and digitalization and allows us to provide reliable analyzers to measure all the main quality parameters of pulp processing, as well as new solutions and services leveraging them, said Stephan Keuschnigg-Zingl, VP of Pulp and Paper Automation and Digitalization at ANDRITZ.
