Inauguration of A New Factory in Brazil

International technology group ANDRITZ has been selected by Companhia Paranaense de Energia (COPEL) to refurbish and modernize the Governador Parigot de Souza hydropower plant in Curitiba, Brazil. The value of the order is not disclosed.

WEG supplied medium voltage synchronous motors to CEDAE at the Lameirão Pumping Station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. These motors will play a crucial role by pumping water to a significant part of the city, ensuring reliability and continuity for the state’s population.

End of March, NETZSCH Pumps & Systems officially opened the new NOTOS multi screw pump plant in Pomerode, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The new factory in the Testo Central district marks an important milestone in NETZSCH’s seventy-year history. The construction work began in August 2021 and was completed in less than three years despite countless challenges.

At a tank farm in a Brazilian sea port, two centrifugal pumps were used for transferring heavy oil from storage tanks to road tankers or vessels until February 2020. This required the high viscosity of the medium to be reduced by means of diesel injection, costing the owner at least 2,000 US dollars each day. In addition, the centrifugal pumps regularly broke down due to cavitation damage. The owners decided to initially replace one of the two centrifugal pumps with a NOTOS multi screw pump from NETZSCH. Due to its very good suction capabilities, the selected four-screw 4NS is also suitable for highly viscous media with up to 200,000 cSt, achieving a flow rate of up to 3000 m³/h.

The Brazilian company ENGIE Brasil Energia awarded international technology group ANDRITZ a contract for modernization of the Brazilian Jaguara hydropower plant.

IFAT, the environmental technology trade fair, is heading to South America next year for the first time, and will be staging IFAT Brasil in São Paulo from April 24 to 26. Brazil faces enormous problems, especially in the fields of drinking water treatment, and sewage and waste management.