To Anhui Tobacco, China, Andritz will supply a steel yankee with a diameter of 5.5 m for a new application in the tobacco production; start-up is scheduled for mid-2013. With this order and the supply of another steel yankee for Golden Leaf, China, Andritz has successfully entered this new and promising market segment.

More current steel yankee orders for Andritz set world records: with a diameter of 4.9 m and shell length exceeding 6 m, record size for the steel yankee for PM15 and PM16 at Hengan Jinjiang, China; with a shell length of 7.4 m, record in length for a pulp and paper group in Indonesia.

The steel yankee developed by Andritz is a key component which is critical to the technology and subject to constant quality checks in order to meet the stringent safety requirements specific to each country (e.g. pressure vessel directives).