Pulp and Paper
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 ...