Eka builds new Chlorine Dioxide Generator at Suzano Mucuri mill, Brazil
Eka Chemicals do Brazil S.A, a company within the Akzo Nobel group, has signed an agreement with Suzano Papel e Celulose S.A to supply a new turn-key chlorine dioxide plant with a long term chlorate supply agreement to the Mucuri pulp mill, Bahia, Brazil.
Suzano Mucuri, located on the south coast of Bahia State, is a 700 000 ton/p.a. eucalyptus pulp mill partially integrated with a 270,000 ton/p.a. printing and writing paper machine. Suzano Papel e Celulose S.A., is building a new large scale pulp mill line at Mucuri, with start-up scheduled for August 2007. The mill will produce a total 1,250,000 ton p.a. of eucalyptus ECF (elemental chlorine free) bleached pulp.
Initially, Eka built a 25 tpd chlorine dioxide (SVP-Lite) plant at Mucuri, Bahia in 2003, which has since been operating at high performance. For the new pulp mill line, Suzano and Eka have signed an agreement for Eka to build a second turn-key 45 tpd chlorine dioxide plant. This will use SVP-SCW technology with methanol as a reducing agent. The new process has the advantage of facilitating a neutral salt cake residue and lower sulphuric acid consumption and is scheduled to go on-stream on August 15, 2007.
The chlorine dioxide process and plant will be operated by pulp mill personnel and remote-monitored from the Eka Chemicals factory in Jundiai, Brazil, supported by the Eka operations center in Stockvik, Sweden.
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