CHILE – Arauco has chosen Austrian Andritz as its MAPA project maintenance and service partner.

The service agreement, which will start in September 2019 and run for more than nine years through to February 2029, will be managed locally by Andritz Chile. It is the largest maintenance and service contract Andritz has ever been awarded.

This order follows the announcement by Andritz in October last year that it would be supplying major wood yard equipment, fiberline, white liquor plant and evaporation technologies and equipment for the MAPA project. The scope also includes a complete operator training system with an exact model of the plant areas to train the operators in customer-specific operating scenarios. Completion of the MAPA project will make the Chilean company the third largest supplier of eucalyptus pulp globally. The modernization and expansion project is due to start up in the first quarter of 2021 and will see the mill producing 2.1 million tons of pulp annually.

“This is an important order for Andritz because it further strengthens our relationship with the Arauco group, which represents almost half of the Chilean pulp production market,” says Luis Binotto, Senior Vice President and Division Manager at Sindus Andritz.

Andritz is an international technology group providing plants, systems, equipment, and services for various industries. The company is one of the technology and global market leaders in the hydropower business, the pulp and paper industry, the metal working and steel industries, and in solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial segments.