Andritz, Austria, 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. Startup is scheduled for the first quarter of 2019. 

The Andritz scope of supply includes a new DD-Washer (photo below), 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’s unique control system.

 

 

Andritz has some hundreds of very successful DD-Washer installations around the globe. Andritz DD-Washers are characterized by lowest operational costs and lowest emissions as well as extremely good washing efficiency based on the required number of displacement washing stages in a single unit. Washing capacities are more than 6,000 admt/d/unit. 

This order 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.