Elodrado Orders Systems for New Pulp Mill in Brazil
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Eldorado Papel e Celulose Ltda., Eldorado Brazil, has ordered from Andritz, Graz, Austria, a complete fiberline and other major equipment for its new pulp mill in Três Lagoas, Brazil. Startup is scheduled for the third quarter of 2012. The value of the order was not disclosed. It involves:
- Woodyard--three complete wood receiving and chipping lines, conveyors, stacker/reclaimer, four chip screens, and biomass handling.
- Fiberline--single vessel continuous digester with Lo-Solids cooking, washing, screening, and low-impact bleaching based on the DD washer technology by Andritz.
- Pulp drying plant—including automated baling lines. The two dewatering machines (working width 6.67 m each) will be based on twin wire former technology that has already been proven in several high-capacity pulp mill projects around the world.
- White liquor plant (recausticizing and lime kiln)—designed to produce 15,700 m3/day of white liquor for the cooking plant. The plant will feature green liquor filtration based on X-Filter technology, the CD-Filter for white liquor filtration, and LMD-Filter for lime mud washing. The lime kiln will be the largest to be installed in South America.
With an annual production of approximately 1.5 million metric tons of bleached eucalyptus market pulp, Eldorado will be the largest pulp mill in the world.
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