ICT Italy to reduce energy costs and CO2 emissions with ANDRITZ’s heat recovery chain of the tissue machine PM3

The PrimeDry YES Yankee Ecosteam System by ANDRITZ Novimpianti enables remarkable energy savings. © ANDRITZ

(PRESS RELEASE) GRAZ, 22-Oct-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — ANDRITZ GROUP, Austria-based international technology group active in the supplies of plants, equipment, systems and services across multiple industries, has announced it successfully started-up a heat recovery chain of the tissue machine PM3 at ICT at its mill in Piano di Coreglia, Italy.

The heat recovery chain, supplied by ANDRITZ Novimpianti, includes a PrimeDry YES Yankee Ecosteam System that produces approximately one third of the steam required for the Yankee by utilizing exhaust air from the Yankee hood. Thus, energy costs and CO₂ emissions can be reduced.

Additional energy savings are reached with the new PrimeDry Heat Recovery system that recovers and reuses the heat generated during the tissue drying process and the air-to-air process heat exchange for make-up and combustion air. The upgrade of the complete heating and room ventilation system of the plant was part of the scope as well.

With a capacity of about 620,000 t/a, ICT, numbers among Europe’s leading tissue producers. ICT and ANDRITZ partnered for the first time in 2001 when ANDRITZ successfully installed the tissue production line PM11 at ICT Poland in Kostrzyn, followed by several conjoint projects in Europe.

ANDRITZ Novimpianti, member of the ANDRITZ GROUP since 2018, has more than 30 years of experience designing, installing, and servicing drying technology for all kinds of tissue and paper machines around the world. With this order it has more than 30 PrimeDry YES systems successfully in operation – a benchmark in the tissue industry.

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ANDRITZ GROUP
International technology group ANDRITZ offers a broad portfolio of innovative plants, equipment, systems and services for the pulp and paper industry, the hydropower sector, the metals processing and forming industry, pumps, solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial sectors, as well as animal feed and biomass pelleting. Plants for power generation, flue gas cleaning, recycling, and the production of nonwovens and panelboard complete the global product and service offering. Innovative products and services in the industrial digitalization sector are offered under the brand name Metris and help customers to make their plants more user-friendly, efficient and profitable. The publicly listed group has around 26,700 employees and more than 280 locations in over 40 countries.

ANDRITZ PULP & PAPER
ANDRITZ Pulp & Paper provides equipment, systems, complete plants and services for the production of all types of pulp, paper, board and tissue. The technologies and services focus on maximum utilization of raw materials, increased production efficiency and sustainability as well as lower overall operating costs. Boilers for power generation, flue gas cleaning systems, plants for the production of nonwovens and panelboard (MDF), as well as recycling and shredding solutions for various waste materials also form a part of this business area. State-of-the-art IIoT technologies as part of Metris digitalization solutions complete the comprehensive product offering.

Media contact:

Michael Buchbauer
HEAD OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS
michael.buchbauer@andritz.com

SOURCE: ANDRITZ