18 ANDRITZ
Pulp Paper & Logistics
The Workington Mill management and work force make it abundantly clear that they are extremely proud of the mill being entirely self-sufficient in terms of energy – and that by doing so, they have cut carbon emissions by more than 190,000 tons per year. Or, as they like to tell customers, “We cut our annual emissions by 60,000 automobiles a year.” Schultz-Eklund concludes: “This
Anna-Maija Harju, Andritz product engineer for power systems
we synchronized to the grid and reached our goal,” Nieminen says. and producing power in April, and took over the boiler from Andritz on 15 May.”
Throwing down challenges The Holmen Group likes to challenge its employees as well as its suppliers. Instead of importing a group of biomass energy experts to run the new power plant, Holmen selected team members from the Workington Mill. This included lead technician Bill Williams, who enjoyed the retraining in the art of power and steam generation. “This project has been an amazing experience for me,” says Williams. “We watched as the boiler was built, then fired up. It was incredible to see how the suppliers sped up towards the end to make the start-up deadline. The learning curve for us has been steep and fast, but the Andritz team has been great in helping us move up the curve.
March 2014
They are very knowledgeable and professional.” Have the targets been hit?
“Absolutely!” exclaims Nieminen. “We use the same amount of energy in production that we used a year ago, but now it all
comes from renewable sources. Our team has achieved great things. The boiler availability has been near 100 per cent since we took it over. With the continued support of our supplier partners, we intend to keep uptime high.”
project has had some immense challenges, but ultimately we went from a situation where our competitiveness was being affected by really poor power and steam output to a situation where we are self-sufficient and even exporting power to the national grid.” Clearly, Iggesund Workington is the brightest star in the Cumbria area’s “green power show.”
Hulkkonen at email: seppo.
hulkkonen@andritz.com
Manne Koskinen, Andritz woodyard technician, talks with an operator as they observe wood chips being fed to the BFB boiler
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