Nordic Paper opts for Andritz’s debarking and chipping line to scale production

SWEDEN – Norwegian industrial company, Nordic Paper has contracted Andritz to supply it with new wood room with chip and bark handling for its Bäckhammar mill in Sweden.

The new wood room contributes to meeting the very high pulp quality standards at the Bäckhammar mill. The plant will have the capacity to process over 1.4 million m³ sob of pine and spruce logs annually. The start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2025.

Christian Persson, Director of Operations at Nordic Paper, says: “The investment will further improve sustainability performance and strengthen the competitiveness of Nordic Paper Bäckhammar mill.

“The new wood room provides for both strategic flexibility in raw material sourcing and efficiency gains in production.”

The new wood room will be the benchmark in sustainable solutions in the wood handling area. The delivery includes a new debarking and chipping line with steam de-icing in the debarking drum, which ensures a high debarking degree with low wood losses and at the same time saves energy.

This technology also drastically reduces water use and effluent water load. Chipping in horizontally fed HHQ-Chippers ensures efficient use of the wood raw material and provides the highest chip quality on the market. 

Efficient operation is supported by key digital packages from the ANDRITZ Autonomous Wood Processing product portfolio, which optimizes production and quality and ensures low wood losses.

Chip quality is monitored with Metris ChipSCAN technology. The energy value of the bark will be maximized with the unique and further developed HQ-Press bark press and BioCrusher solution.

Last month, Nordic Paper announced an investment of US$78M to strengthen its competitiveness and help improve the sustainability performance of Bäckhammar mill.

Nordic Paper said that this investment will add approximately SEK100 million (US$9.17m) to its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), annually.

The latest decision, which was taken by the company’s board of directors, has been approved as part of the existing production permit.

The company added that it was granted a new production permit for the Bäckhammar mill earlier this year on 31 January, and this new permit was appealed by a third party and has not gained legal force until now.

The investment, which is planned to be carried out between 2023 and 2025, will be financed utilizing existing credit facilities.

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