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A project under lucky stars The timing of Yueyang Paper Co.’s new mill in Hunan Province was excellent. Taking a DIP! ANDRITZ’s Friedrich Hoppl, the At its start, Yueyang took advantage of lower commodity costs and a favorable on-site leader of the start-up team, explains that currency exchange rate. After start-up, financial pessimism in China diminished both professional and personal friendships have and the market is recovering nicely. “Honestly, we have been really lucky,” says developed as a result of the deinking project. Guo Yongwei, Chief Engineer. Friedrich Hoppl, on-site leader of the start-up team from ANDRITZ

Yueyang Paper Co., a member of the Hunan vided stock preparation equipment and ap- Tiger Forest & Paper Group, placed an or- proach systems that refine BSK and BHK, der with ANDRITZ PULP & PAPER for a and prepare the stock for the two PMs. complete deinking line, stock preparation systems, and paper machine approach sys- “Generally speaking, the whole process tems for their new mill in April 2008. from technical negotiations and internation- al bidding to erection and commissioning The fiber preparation technology prepares went quite smoothly,” says Guo, who is also

quality stock for two new 5.3 m wide paper the Administrative Vice Commander of the ANDRITZ delivered totally three SelectaFlot flota- machines at the mill producing environmen- Yueyang Paper and was the project director tion stages to obtain maximum final pulp quality. tally friendly copy paper and premium offset during construction. “This all was realized printing paper. The furnish is a combination even though the project time was short.” ANDRITZ PULP & PAPER supplied a complete deinking of deinked mixed office waste (MOW), me- line, stock preparation systems, and paper machine ap- chanical pulp, and bleached kraft. In addi- proach systems for Yueyang Paper’s new mill. tion to the technology, ANDRITZ delivered control engineering, erection supervision, “Most important part and start-up services. of the whole project” “Generally speaking, the DIP line is the Start-up of the production lines took place most important part of this total project,” in July 2009. The new PM10 started opera- says Zhou Xunfu, Project Manager of the tion in August. Currently, PM10 is being fed DIP project. “The runnability of the line and an 80:20 mixture of deinked pulp (DIP) and quality of the deinked pulp is critical for the bleached softwood kraft. The deinking line paper machine. For this reason, ANDRITZ cleans and brightens American sorted office is a very important partner.” paper and local office waste paper to about 82% ISO brightness. Zhou notes that the line is “extremely easy to operate. We were able to make quality The bleached kraft comes to the mill from pulp from the start-up and we only need four operators per shift to run the entire line. “The technology, the R&D ability, parent company Tiger Forest & Paper, or from the market, depending on which is The operating efficiency is really high.” and the equipment manufacturing the most cost-efficient. ANDRITZ pro- capacity of ANDRITZ met exactly vided all the major production systems for According to Zhou, the equipment has been the requirements of Yueyang Tiger’s 400,000 t/y chemical pulp mill in running well since start-up in the summer of Paper.” Huaihua City, Hunan province (see story in 2009. The guarantee run was completed in Guo Yongwei, Chief Engineer and Vice Commander, SPECTRUM No. 19/1-2009). In addition, March 2010, and customer takeover of the Yueyang Paper Yueyang Paper can also use high quality entire line occurred April 1, 2010. “Despite mechanical pulp from a 200,000 t/y mill some minor problems at start-up, we would in Hunan province, the site of ANDRITZ’s already rate the system as perfect,” Zhou first P-RC APMP line in 2003 (see story in says. “The quality of the pulp helps us meet Issue 2/2004 of FiberSpectrum) instead of all the requirements of PM10 and the older bleached kraft. paper machines. The ANDRTIZ team has been patient and dedicated. For me, it has The second machine, PM9, is furnished with been truly a pleasure to listen, learn, and a 70:30 mixture of bleached hardwood and even challenge their expertise.” softwood kraft pulps. ANDRITZ also pro- 12 Yueyang Paper Company Yueyang Paper Company 13

Scope of “The runnability of the line and Liu Yiwen, Vice Director of the DIP Depart- The choice of ANDRITZ quality of the deinked pulp is ment, has similar feelings. “Based on the “Why did we choose ANDRITZ as the supply critical for the paper machine. way the line is running now, we are con- supplier for our new deinking system?” 3-loop deinking line with ▪ CompaDis dispersing fident of success in the performance test. asks Guo. “First, it is supplying the most 500 t/d capacity: HC bleaching For this reason, ANDRITZ is a ▪ We know that, under the supervision of advanced technology for deinking sys- ▪ Bale handling ▪ Sludge dewatering equipment very important partner.” ANDRITZ experts, we can achieve all the tems with references around the world. I ▪ FibreFlow® drum pulper ▪ MC pumps Zhou Xunfu, Project Manager of the DIP plant from guaranteed performance very soon.” visited the deinking line for our customer Yueyang Paper Company ▪ DuoClean system ▪ Advanced basic engineering Shandong Chenming, as well as the mill ▪ ModuScreens for coarse ▪ Erection supervision “A fantastic group to work with” in Jiangxi Chenming, where the DIP line is and fine screening ▪ Training “Yueyang really has a nice team here,” says more or less the same that we wanted to ▪ SelectaFlot deinking ▪ Commissioning ANDRITZ’s Friedrich Hoppl, the on-site build. These installations really gave us a ▪ Thickening/dewatering ▪ Start-up and optimization leader of the start-up team. “Friendships good impression. ▪ RotoWash de-ashing services have been developed, not only professional,

but personal ones. They are more than cus- “The technology, the R&D ability, and the ANDRITZ installed a second cleaning line to tomers. I would say that we are colleagues. equipment manufacturing capacity of in power, steam, and water consumption production is a big challenge in China. “We help Yueyang meet its high targets for dirt speck All the time we keep open communications ANDRITZ met exactly the requirements of really help the industry reduce costs, and are applying for a certificate for green prod- removal. and dialog.” Yueyang Paper. And finally, ANDRITZ could make our products more competitive in the ucts from the State, as we are using deinked offer a really nice price-to-performance ra- market. Another consideration for us is how pulp for high-grade environmental-friendly Chen Zuqing, the Project Manager for the tio. “Based upon the project and the per- to further reduce effluents and emissions. copy paper.” Guo says. “We can also use DIP plant from ANDRITZ China, also re- formance, we made the right decision.” The Chinese government is getting stricter the green paper concept in marketing, but marked about the excellent cooperation. and this brings a lot of pressure to pulp and the technology needed for green paper is Chen was responsible for overseeing the A new project already in plans paper companies.” new and high, it is a real challenge.” locally manufactured equipment, while his “We are already planning a 500,000 t/y in- colleague, Gerhard Knes from Austria, was crease in our production,” Guo says. “At In China, the older standards for efflu- Overall, Guo and Yueyang Paper are ex- Project Manager for the engineering and the present, we are confirming the techni- ent measured four variables. The new tremely satisfied with the project. The imported equipment. cal concept for the project and making the standard has grown to eight items. “There ANDRITZ line is running smoothly, and it general layout. Our longer range plan is to are differences in the COD concentra- needs less operators. “It will be really nice ANDRITZ team members give…thumbs up! From “I feel that the confidence, comradeship, build this mill to a base of 1.5 million t/y tion,” Guo says. “The old standard was as we control the consumption of energy, left to right: Chen Zuqing, Gerhard Knes, Friedrich and expertise we have at ANDRITZ most papermaking capacity.” 410 ppm (parts per million). Then it was re- water, and raw materials as per design in Hoppl, Chen Fang, Marketing Director, Heinz certainly can be seen and felt by the cus- duced to 150 ppm, and it will be further re- the near future.” Kleinbichler, Start-up Engineer, Ewald Halbedel, tomer,” Chen says. “This leads to progres- He also hopes that also ANDRITZ continues duced to 90 ppm in the standard that goes Process and Control Engineer, Alexander sive and efficient operations, no matter how its R&D work in energy savings. “Savings into effect in 2011.” Gscheider, Start-up Engineer and Huang Zhao, Sales Engineer. challenging.” Nearly 20 years of cooperation with ANDRITZ Guo says that he has been cooperating with ANDRITZ since 1991. “The first project I was involved in was the first poplar APMP line,” he says. “Notably, it was the first APMP line in China.”

ANDRITZ sent an expert from their labora- tory in North America to Yueyang Paper. “He worked here with us until we found the roots of the problems and solved them completely,” Guo says. “Thanks to this im- “The reject of coarse and MC provement, we were awarded second prize screening is more or less free of by the National Scientific and Technological fiber. We can reach a yield over Progress.” the whole line that exceeds 70%.” Much hope on green paper production Gerhard Knes, Project Manager from ANDRITZ (right) with Chen Zuqing, Project Manager for the DIP plant According to Yueyang, using recycled from ANDRITZ China deinked pulp for high-grade copy paper