Customer case:

Metsä Fibre Rauma adopts Mill-Wide Optimization

Oct 18, 2024

Valmet Mill-Wide Optimization is helping Metsä Fibre become even more data driven at their pulp mill in Rauma. Forward-looking production trends help the team coordinate activities to improve production and sustainability.

Matti Toivonen, VP, Production Technology, Metsä Fibre and Markus Piipponen, Operations Manager, Metsä Fibre Rauma.
We saw potential in this new optimization solution, which fits well into our wider strategic program for sustainable industrial efficiency. We want to improve our production efficiency with digitalization and find more sustainable ways to operate our mills. Mill-wide optimization helps us in both, so it has a good strategic fit in our case.
Matti Toivonen, VP, Production Technology, Metsä Fibre

Summary

Location Metsä Fibre's pulp mill in Rauma, Finland
Goals Existing automation platform was obsolete
and upgrades had to be done in steps to enable the vessel to continue its missions.
Solution

The project kicked-off with a Mill-Wide Optimization Audit, an assessment of mill production potential using historical data.

During the second phase, Valmet Mill-Wide Optimization (Valmet MWO) solution was implemented to model the behavior and relationships between process areas.

Results
  • Provides maximum sustainable digester production target
  • Helps improve planning of unit stops and slowdowns
  • Helps build communication practices and strong collaboration