OREANDA-NEWS. July 30, 2014. Degremont, a subsidiary of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, was awarded a 30 million euros contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of water treatment facilities for Klabin1, one of the main players in the Pulp and Paper industry in Brazil.

Klabin is building a 2 billion euros Greenfield Kraft pulp mill in Ortigueira (Parana State), south of Brazil, known as Puma Project. The start of the new plant’s production is forecast for the first quarter of 2016. With the new plant, Klabin’s production capacity will double until 2016. The mill will have an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tons, of which 1.1 million tons in short fiber and 400 thousand tons in long fiber, part of which is to be converted into fluff pulp 2.

The main challenges for the Pulp & Paper industry rely in guaranteeing the water needs to ensure the continuity of production and adapting operations accordingly to market fluctuation while still ensuring reliability and high-level quality services for water treatment.

In order to meet the high quality and quantity water needs, Degremont will provide a process water plant, equipped with the Densadeg® technology followed by Aquazur® filters,  and a boiler feed water plant, equipped with Ion Exchange Process.