Valmet to invest in filter fabric manufacturing in India
Valmet Oyj’s trade press release on October 28, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. EET
Valmet has decided to invest in filter fabric manufacturing in Pune, India in order to better serve its customers and improve delivery times of filter fabrics to the Asia Pacific and Middle East areas.
The investment includes manufacturing equipment for filter fabric production. The new unit will start operation in the second quarter of 2021.
“This investment gives us the necessary assets to further develop our services close to customers and strengthen our position in the market. It also ensures our capacity for the coming years to deliver filter fabrics that respond to customer needs for maximized reliability and optimized performance of their production process,” says Tero Kokko, Vice President, Fabrics Business Unit, Valmet.
Valmet is one of the leading suppliers of filter fabrics and industrial textiles globally. Valmet’s filtration offering covers filter fabrics and felts for the mining and chemical, pulp and paper, dry filtration and laundry industries.
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For further information, please contact:
Rui Coelho, Director, Filtration Technology Unit, Services, Valmet, tel. +351 96 744 9076
Varun Jain, Director, India Region, Valmet, tel. +91 (96548) 13696
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