International technology group ANDRITZ and Paracel S.A., Paraguay, have signed a contract under which ANDRITZ is to supply all process equipment and energy-efficient and environmentally friendly pulp production equipment for Paracel’s 1.8 million ton/year pulp mill to be built in Concepción, Paraguay. ANDRITZ will supply all equipment on an EPC basis. The order value for ANDRITZ will be more than 1.5 billon US dollars. The contract is expected to be booked during 2023.

Reinforcing the company's leadership in sustainability, Duke Energy  successfully launched the utility industry's first sustainable commercial paper notes. Duke Energy plans to disburse or allocate an amount equal to net proceeds from the sustainable commercial paper notes to fund expenditures and programs related to enabling opportunities for diverse businesses. This includes suppliers certified by a third-party organization or government agency as being minority-, wom

CERiS, a CorVel company, and a leader in both pre and post-pay health care claims review today announced a newly published white paper on payment integrity that urges health payers to consider a pre-payment claims review strategy while outlining the challenges and benefits of doing so. The white paper notes the advantages of undertaking such reviews before money changes hands. Among them: It can take months to reverse an incorrectly paid claim Payers don

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from the Spanish pulp and paper producer Papelera Guipuzcoana de Zicuñaga to deliver a new LimeFlash-H lime kiln for its pulp mill in Hernani, Spain. ANDRITZ has been selected to supply, install, and commission an electrostatic precipitator (ESP) for this plant. The ESP will be installed downstream of the new LimeFlash-H unit, and the state-of-the-art ESP will be powered by switched integrated rectifiers (SIR

Centered around the theme “Road to bioeconomy,” the line-up for the 20th annual PROGRESS conference will feature topics such as achieving greater resource and energy efficiency, including how to maintain high-quality results in papermaking while at the same time working toward greater sustainability. Visitors to the exhibition after the conference will be able to explore this theme further with presentations such as those from German-based company emtec Electronic. Emtec

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from the Spanish pulp and paper producer Papelera Guipuzcoana de Zicuñaga to deliver a new LimeFlash-H lime kiln for its pulp mill in Hernani, Spain. ANDRITZ has been selected to supply, install, and commission an electrostatic precipitator (ESP) for this plant. The ESP will be installed downstream of the new LimeFlash-H unit, and the state-of-the-art ESP will be powered by switched integrated rectifiers (

OneFortyOne’s Kaituna Sawmill and Marusumi Whangarei Co. Ltd, have signed an agreement to export wood chip to Japan with the first vessel expected to depart from Port Marlborough (Picton) before the end of the year. Port Marlborough has been a critical partner in providing logistical support for the trial, including 4,000m2 (0.4 ha) in the port’s Shakespeare Bay log yard currently for the operation. Tracy Goss, General Manager Kaituna Sawmill said this trial ha

ANDRITZ has successfully received the Final Acceptance Certificate for a biomass handling plant at Eldorado’s Onça Pintada site in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul. This plant is part of the first thermoelectric power plant in Brazil to consume eucalyptus stumps and roots. The plant will be able to generate 50 megawatts of electricity from an innovative source – eucalyptus stumps and roots, the parts of the trees not used in the pulp manufacturing proc

Calavo Growers, Inc. a global avocado-industry leader and provider of value-added fresh food, today announced that Helen Kurtz has been named Senior Vice President & General Manager of Calavo Prepared, the company’s prepared foods segment. Ms. Kurtz is a veteran of the food industry with more than 25 years of experience, primarily with General Mills Inc. and, most recently, serving as SVP, Chief Marketing Officer of Foster Farms. There, she led the poultry business and orc

International technology group ANDRITZ has received another order from Toyo Engineering Corporation in Japan to supply a 50-MW PowerFluid circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler on EPS basis. The boiler will be part of the biomass power plant in Gobo, Wakayama Prefecture, in Japan. Start-up is planned for 2025. ANDRITZ will supply a biomass boiler and flue gas cleaning system to Wakayama Gobo Biomass Power Plant G.K. in Japan. The ANDRITZ PowerFluid (CFB) will be des