Andritz has announced that it has been selected to build a new brown stock washing sideline to produce extremely high-purity pulp for the new board machine at the BillerudKorsnäs Gruvön mill in Sweden.
Austria-headed international technology group Andritz has announced that it has been selected to build a new brown stock washing sideline to produce extremely high-purity pulp for the new board machine at the BillerudKorsnäs Gruvön mill in Sweden. Start-up is scheduled for the first quarter of 2019.
The scope of supply includes a new DD-Washer, which ensures the production of high-purity pulp used for food packaging. The delivery also includes four MC pumps and a pulp Screw Press with Andritz proprietary control system.
The order, the value of which has not been disclosed, is part of BillerudKorsnäs’ investment at the Gruvön mill, which includes the construction of a new board machine and rebuilds in the existing pulp mill. The investment is the largest in the history of the company and one of the largest in Sweden in recent years.
