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First bale produced at Arauco MAPA project in Chile!

On Friday, January 20, 2023, Arauco produced the first bale of pulp by the new production line of the Arauco MAPA project, which includes major improvements to line 2 and the installation of this new production line (line 3) at the Arauco pulp mill, located in the Biobío region, in Chile.

Successful start-up of Expansion Södra Cell Värö 2.0

Södra Cell’s mill in Värö, Sweden, continues to make stepwise and targeted investments for a brighter future. The latest expansion project was successfully started up in October 2021, six months ahead of the original plan. Valmet was a key partner in the capacity increase and two sub-projects on the fiber line and pulp drying line.

Ensuring a smooth pulp drying process

The Vulindela project is an overall expansion project at the Sappi Saiccor mill in South Africa. It will increase the mill’s total output by 110,000 tonnes of dissolving pulp per annum while reducing its environmental footprint. As part of this project, Valmet helped Sappi overcome a bottleneck in their baling line.

One year of successful textile pulp production

In the middle of the health crisis due to Covid-19 and through remote support, Valmet delivered the new production line to ARAUCO, which allowed them to produce textile pulp for the first time in Chile.

Nippon Dynawave Packaging: new pulp drying and baling line increases flexibility

Nippon Dynawave Packaging’s (NDP) new pulp drying and baling line will increase the ability to shift economically between the available fiber while maximizing the current pulp production capacity. Despite the project’s challenging and exciting nature, it marks a new success in the long collaboration between Valmet and Nippon.

Valmet performed remote start-up of dissolving pulp production at Arauco’s Valdivia pulp mill

Tailoring lignin

Lignin is a good choice in many manufactured products. Here’s some current examples.

Pioneering lignin extraction in South America

A new demonstration-scale LignoBoost plant helps Klabin to further study the possibilities of lignin. The wide base of different wood species processed at the mill gives it a great opportunity to be a future producer of both softwood and hardwood lignin in South America.

Successful start-up with remote support

Valmet’s and Ilim Group’s expert teams found new ways to collaborate remotely during commissioning and start-up phase of a new evaporation system at the Bratsk mill.

Taking the learnings from doctoral thesis to work as a product engineer

Tiina Keipi works as a product engineer in Valmet’s Recovery business unit. Before she joined Valmet she did her doctoral dissertation at the Tampere University of Technology but not in the area of recovery boilers but about Technology Development and Techno-Economic Analysis of Hydrogen Production by Thermal Decomposition of Methane.