In order to improve effectiveness, the Mitchells Plain Wastewater Treatment Works operated by the City of Cape Town, South Africa, installed two Valmet Total Solids Measurements (Valmet TS) in the sludge cake pipelines to provide immediate inline feedback on the dry solids percentage of the sludge cake.

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Europa 2, Luxury Cruise Ship

MS Europa 2 is the flagship of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. Europa 2 is the first ship to have a catalytic converter, reducing nitricoxide emissions by 95%.The Valmet DNA automation system for Europa 2 is a ship wide automation system which design fulfills the Safe Return to Port (SRtP) requirements.

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Optimum water content derives benefits

One of the largest sludge plants in Kanto area Japan, 400,000 ton/day. Valmet TS measures water content of dry cake and it is used for feed-back control of polymer amount to belt-press dewatering machine.

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GE Frame 6 automation retrofit at Lahti Energy: Better availability and at least 100 times more information

Higher reliability and a deeper view into the process – that’s definitely what Lahti Energy got when Valmet delivered a demanding automation retrofit to the company’s GE Frame 6 gas turbine. Unlike before, a massive amount of information is now available to all involved in the process, enabling continuous follow-up and proactive measures.

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Stunning results with Valmet Hirun Web Stabilizer 4E at Orora Botany mill

The Orora's Botany mill in Sydney, Australia, has been ambitious about the performance and it has aimed to be within top board mills worldwide, in terms of tonnes per meter. Shortly after the upgrade with Hirun runnability systems B9 broke its daily production record and the machine is now regularly running at 11.5 t/m/h.

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Mitsubishi Hachinohe optimizes recovery boiler performance

Mitsubishi Paper Hachinohe Mill acquired a Valmet Recovery Liquor Analyzer with an advanced process control (APC) application, Valmet Recovery Boiler Optimizer, to the mill’s chemical recovery process. Along with improving recovery boiler efficiency, Mitsubishi Hachinohe Mill combats climate change through accurate online analyses and optimization.

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Improved test liner quality at Dongguan Huangchong Yinzhou Paper

Yinzhou Paper invested in two new headboxes and quality control system (QCS) to keep their production assets in top condition. This has resulted in higher production efficiency lowering costs, and improved paper quality increasing their sales and prices.

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Valmet-supplied Klabin's PUMA project

The construction of a large-scale pulp facility is not an easy task. A greenfield project includes tonnes of equipment and thousands of people, from the project design phase to groundbreaking works, erection, commissioning and the final start-up process. The key is to successfully gather different stakeholders from multidisciplinary teams.

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LignoBoost plant at Domtar's Plymouth mill in North Carolina

The LignoBoost plant is integrated with the pulp mill and separates and collects lignin from the pulping liquor. This provides the Plymouth NC mill with numerous benefits. Lignin is a high-quality bio-based alternative to fossil fuel based materials. Separation of a portion of the mill's total lignin production also off-loads the recovery boiler, and allows an increase in pulp production capacity.

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