Pulping & Fiberline

On assignments throughout North America and internationally, Sandwell engineers bring exceptional strength to the challenges facing pulp and paper clients. We offer hands-on mill operations experience, specialized knowledge, comprehensive services from feasibility studies to all facets of design, engineering and project management for large integrated complexes and greenfield mills.

Sandwell's Pulping and Fiberline group provides engineering services in the following areas:

Mill Wide

  • new fiberlines
  • capacity reviews
  • facility expansion
  • modernization
  • debottlenecking
  • water/effluent reduction programs
  • energy consumption reduction program

Kraft Pulping 

  • continuous digesters
  • batch digesters
  • sawdust digesters
  • polysulphide
  • anthraquinone
  • digester debottlenecking
  • pulping technology reviews
  • pulping technology conversions (Lo-Solids, ITC, Superbatch)
  • troubleshooting
  • chip bin replacements
  • blow tanks

Mechanical Pulping

  • chip washing
  • chip pre-treatment (thermal, chemical)
  • refining
  • heat recovery
  • plant audit

Washing

  • brown stock washing evaluations
  • atmospheric diffusion washers
  • pressure diffusion washers
  • displacement presses
  • wash presses
  • pressure washers
  • belt washers
  • vacuum drum filters
  • troubleshooting

Screening/Cleaning

  • slotted screens
  • hole screens
  • series screening systems
  • debris removal systems
  • grit removal systems
  • centrifugal cleaning systems

Oxygen Delignification

  • high consistency
  • medium consistency
  • single stage versus two stage
  • mini oxygen delignification
  • post oxygen washing evaluations
  • liquor management tanks and strategy
  • troubleshooting

Kraft Pulp Bleaching

  • new towers
  • tower conversions
  • washers
  • ECF
  • TCF
  • medium consistency Do stage
  • ozone
  • acid soak stage
  • peroxide
  • papricycle stage
  • splitting bleach plants
  • troubleshooting

Mechanical Pulp Bleaching

  • bleaching towers
  • peroxide
  • hydrosulphite
  • medium and high consistency bleaching
  • one- and two-stage bleaching
  • pulp neutralization

Chemical Plants

  • chlorine dioxide plants
  • chemical storage facilities
  • spill collection

Recausticizing

  • stacked causticizers
  • pressure filters
  • pre-coat filters
  • green liquor surge tanks
  • clarifiers
  • lime mud recycle
  • autocausticizing
  • polysulfide systems
  • green liquor filters
  • storage tanks

Kilns

  • mud conveyors
  • hot end and burner upgrades
  • coolers
  • de-dusting systems
  • hot lime silos
  • lime mud dryer

Noxious Gases/Substances

  • HVLC and LVHC NCG systems
  • incineration systems
  • turpentine systems
  • foul condensate collection and stripping systems