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Helios shines bright in Sweden


Pulp Paper & Logistics


doubling of capacity at SCA Östrand’s softwood kraft pulp mill. The project – named Helios – is now setting a new global benchmark in high-performance pulp production. “When we started this project,


T May/June 2019


he largest engineering project ever in north Sweden was completed recently with the


So immense was the project in Sweden to double the capacity of SCA’s softwood kraft pulp mill at Östrand that they dubbed it Helios. Andritz supplied some of the latest key technologies used in the completely rebuilt mill. PPL magazine reports


we wanted to create a pulp mill that would be the brightest star in the heavens,” says SCA Östrand’s Helios project president, Ingela Ekebro. “We had an internal competition to find a name, and one name jumped out clearly, ‘Helios’ the ancient Greek name


for the sun, the brightest star in our solar system.”


The name Helios is indeed fitting – the project has been immense in its scope and scale – because the aim was to more than double the capacity of Östrand’s softwood kraft pulp mill from 430,000


tonnes a year to 900,000 tonnes – but with some extra challenges thrown in; the expansion was to take place in the same mill perimeter (there was no extra land available) and it had to take place while the mill was still running. So why not a greenfield mill?


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