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Massive steam-heated cylinder 12–18 ft diameter; the heart of every tissue machine. Lead time for new Yankee: 18–36 months; cost $5–15M per unit. Fewer than 5 OEMs globally can supply: Valmet (Finland), Toscotec (Italy, >260 SYDs installed), A.Celli, ANDRITZ, and limited Asian foundries. A catastrophic Yankee failure leaves a mill completely offline until replacement arrives.
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What depends on it
1 essential American goods rely on yankee dryer cylinder (steel or cast-iron tissue machine) somewhere upstream in their supply chain.
Who makes it
3 companies produce yankee dryer cylinder (steel or cast-iron tissue machine).
Italian tissue machine and Steel Yankee Dryer (SYD) manufacturer; largest installed base of SYDs globally (>260 units sold); headquartered in Lucca, the global capital of tissue machine OEMs. Lead time for new SYD: 18–24 months.
Finnish paper/board/tissue technology company; market leader in full tissue machine lines (Advantage brand); produces both cast-iron and steel Yankee dryers; major supplier to all major tissue brands globally. Lead time for new Yankee: 24–36 months.
Austrian industrial machinery company (Vienna Stock Exchange: ANDR, HQ Graz, Styria; ~€7.5B revenue); Pulp and Paper Division produces Yankee dryers and complete tissue machine lines for global tissue manufacturers. ANDRITZ is the world's largest supplier of pulp and paper production machinery (alongside Valmet), with Yankee dryers for tissue machines as a key product. ANDRITZ acquired the Asselin-Thibeau (France) tissue and nonwovens machinery brand and multiple other tissue technology companies. ANDRITZ also makes hydropower turbines, biomass boilers, and feed and biofuel plants — a diversified heavy equipment company where tissue machinery is one of many businesses.
