New Andritz chip quality package combines technologies.

The Wood Processing Division of Andritz, Graz, Austria is marketing its new chip quality package with a five-part direct mail promotional campaign. The Chip Quality Package is a combination of technologies that deliver the most process-ready wood chips from a given amount of logs. High quality pulping requires homogenous wood chips, specifically long, undamaged fibers. Mills that have installed the Chip Quality Package report that they are producing more usable chips per cubic meter of wood (highest possible yield from infed wood); achieving more consistent chip quality, adapted to the process; and creating less than 3% pins and 1% fines during the chipping, screening and sizing processes. Mills also report they have decreased wood consumption per ton of pulp produced and are able to shorten the cooking time in the digester with less variation in kappa number.

The direct mailing campaign consists of information on the individual systems--HHQ-Chipper for producing optimum chips, JetScreen for separating oversized and over-thick chips, and HQ-Sizer for transforming the overs to acceptable chips--as well as the benefits of the total Chip Quality Package. For more information, contact Robert Puhr of Andritz by email at: [e-mail]