Southern African VWS Envig has completed chloride removal plant for Mondi’s Richards Bay mill

May 22, 2009. /Lesprom Network/. Southern African water and waste-water treatment specialist VWS Envig, part of the global Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies group, has completed a chloride removal plant for pulp and paper company Mondi’s Richards Bay mill. The mill produces bleached hardwood pulp and white top kraft linerboard, as Engineering News informed Lesprom Network. “The purpose of the project was to reduce capacity loss and corrosion levels and to enhance the process,” says VWS Envig Head of corporate affairs Lora Rossler. “The project enhanced overall efficiencies and helped to reduce corrosion levels, which impact on maintenance costs in the longer term.” The project is valued at over R21 million ($2.5 million) and included the design, manufacture, construction, verification and commission-ing of the plant.