Pulp and Paper

 
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Problems facing industrial customers

The issues within the pulp and paper industry are threefold:

  • Guaranteeing continuous production through good labour relations, the provision of safe working conditions for employees, raw materials and production tools;
  • Improving competitiveness by rationalizing production;
  • Complying with ever more stringent environmental regulations.

With more than 1 000 water and effluent treatment solutions in the pulp and paper industry, Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies is the partner of choice from pulp production through to paper production.

Specific solutions

Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies' solutions include:

  • treatment of raw water, production of process water using high-rate clarification systems such as Actiflo™,
  • treatment of boiler feed water by carbonate removal, demineralization, reverse osmosis,
  • treatment of black liquors by multi-effect evaporation,
  • removal of chloride and potassium by crystallization,
  • fibre recovery using DAF (Dissolved Air Flotation.),
  • using micro-filtration to recycle water used as part of the production process for pulp and paper,
  • using physico-chemical, biological, aerobic, anaerobic and bio-filter applications to treat effluent, and reducing the amount of sludge and filamentous bacteria by using the MBP (Minimum Biosludge Production) process,
  • using membranes to recycle waste in order to achieve "zero waste",
  • treatment and dewatering of sludge using AF Table™, Screw Press ...