Andritz has received an order from Eldorado Papel eCelulose Ltda. (Eldorado Brasil) to supply a complete fiberline and other major equipment for the new pulp mill in Três Lagoas, Brazil. Start-up is scheduled for the third quarter of 2012. It was agreed not to disclose the order value.
The scope of supply of the Andritz Pulp & Paper business area covers the EPC delivery of the complete fiberline including other major equipment for the new pulp mill:
• 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 upon the proven DD washer technology by ANDRITZ. The fiber line represents state-of-the-art process technology providing the best yield, washing efficiency, and minimal chemical consumption.
• Complete 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.
• Entire white liquor plant (recausticizing and lime kiln) designed to produce 15,700 m3/d 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 tons of bleached eucalyptus market pulp, Eldorado will be the largest pulp mill in the world.
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