Austria-headed international technology group Andritz AG (ANDRITZ) has announced that it has received an order from Klabin S.A., a leading packaging paper producer in Brazil to supply energy-efficient and environmentally leading key equipment and processes for Klabin’s Puma II capacity increase project in Ortigueira, State of Paraná, Brazil. Start-up is scheduled for the second quarter of 2023.
Klabin S.A. is the biggest paper producer and exporter of paper for packaging in Brazil, it is the only company offering one-stop-shop solutions in hardwood, softwood, and fluff pulp, and the leader in corrugated board packaging and industrial bags. The company was founded in 1899, and it has 18 industrial plants of which 17 are in Brazil and one in Argentina.
According to a statement, the delivery for the hardwood fiberline capacity increase for the Puma I line includes modernization of the cooking, washing, screening, and bleaching processes, which will increase the capacity from 3 742 adt/d to 4 080 adt/d.
The order also includes a new drum displacer washer (DD-Washer), which will ensure the production of high-quality pulp, maximum operating time, and low chemical consumption, thus minimizing the environmental impact.
We selected our reliable partner ANDRITZ to supply a new DD-Washer, a washer whose capabilities are already very familiar to us, especially its flexibility for higher production rates and low chemical consumption in bleaching, said Pablo Cadaval, General Mill Manager of Klabin.
The DD-Washer supplied to Klabin will be the 400th such washer to be sold worldwide.
We were pleased to hear that our newest DD-Washer is ANDRITZ’s 400th DD-Washer sold. In fact, we also have ANDRITZ’s 300th DD-Washer sold in our Puma I line, remarked Rodrigo Vendramini, Project Manager of Fiber, Water and Effluent Lines at Klabin.
ANDRITZ will also deliver the sixth eucalyptus debarking and chipping line with a capacity of 350 m3 sob/h to this site, thus completing the existing wood processing plant in the Puma II line supplied by the company.
This order is part of the second phase of the Puma II project and includes a debarking drum, which the company says provides “excellent debarking results” with very low wood losses, and a horizontally fed HHQ-Chipper (EXL model), ensuring high capacity without compromising on chip quality.
According to ANDRITZ, this order once again confirms the excellent business relationship between the two companies as it has supplied major pulp production technologies and process equipment for Klabin’s Puma I and Puma II pulp lines in Ortigueira.
Currently, a complete biomass gasification plant is being supplied to the Puma II line as the world’s first sulfuric acid plant for a pulp mill, producing commercial-grade, concentrated sulfuric acid. Once completed, it will serve Klabin’s Puma I and Puma II pulp lines.
