Another successful start-up of Ircon-Solaronics gas infrared UniDryer® systems on a board machine of one of the largest paper manufacturing groups in China.
It is a second repeated order from our Chinese customer following a previous successful installation. This delivery is part of electrical conversion plan of the mill that consisted in replacing existing electrical IR from Solaronics by new gas UniDryer systems on a 5,6 meters width board machine.
In January 2026, Ircon-Solaronics has successfully started up the gas infrared dryers.
The non- contact dryer solution included three UniDryer® systems equipped with 3 rows of last technology high power and efficiency GEM12-Hi infrared emitters. To further optimize the overall energy efficiency, Ircon-Solaronics supplied an Energy Recovery System (ERS) between the gas infrared UniDryer® and the existing steam heated air dryers. The ERS principle of Ircon-Solaronics ERS solution consists of using a major part of the hot exhaust air from the UniDryer® hoods as make-up air for the air-dryers. This significantly reduces the energy consumption of the Air Dryers and thereby the energy economy of the total drying is improved as well.
As previous projects, we assumed that these new high efficient gas UniDryer® systems will reduce drastically the overall energy consumption from the non-contact dryers;
