Iggesund Orders High Energy Recovery Boiler for Mill in Sweden

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Iggesund Paperboard, Sweden, a subsidiary of Holmen AB, has ordered a 2,400 metric tpd High Energy Recovery Boiler (HERB) from Andritz, Graz Austria. As reported in last week's edition of Over the Wire, the EUR 238 million investment will provide the Iggesund mill greater energy efficiency, enabling it to be self-sufficient in electricity, and give it a production process that is completely free from any fossil fuel use.

In terms of its power-to-heat ratio, the new boiler will be the most efficient recovery boiler in the world. It will increase Iggesund's electricity production from 210 to 520 GWh/a. The Andritz delivery also includes process and building instrumentation and electrification for the boiler, process control systems for the boiler island, as well as process simulator and process control solutions. Startup is scheduled for the second quarter of 2012.

Holmen, Sweden, is a forest products group manufacturing and selling printing paper, paperboard, and sawn timber. The group also owns forest and power assets. Iggesund Paperboard is owner and manufacturer of Invercote and Incada paperboards.