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The world’s largest wash press begins global journey to Brazil

During the first days of April the world’s largest wash press departed from Sundsvall’s harbor in Sweden heading towards its end destination, Rio Grande in Brazil. Transporting this massive piece of equipment required thorough preparation and attention to detail.

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Uses of lignin

Lignin can replace fossil-based raw materials in a wide range of industries. Here's a few examples. Using lignin instead of fossil-based materials will lower emissions of CO2.

Valmet Continuous Cooking

Valmet Continuous Cooking is the first-hand choice for kraft mills pulping wood based raw materials such as hardwoods (eucalyptus, acacia, birch etc.), softwoods (pine, spruce etc.) and bamboo.

Mill Wide NCG Handling

The benefits of Valmet’s cutting-edge NCG handling technology include effective odor control and the ability to meet the ever-tightening environmental regulations, and consequently better relationships with the surrounding communities.

Bale conveyor system

Valmet's range of bale conveyors is based upon years of experience in handling pulp bales. The heavy-duty design guarantees a long life, safe operation and easy maintenance. Valmet Bale Conveyor System is used in pulp producing lines (sheet dried and flash dried), as well as in pulp receiving lines for recipe handling, de-wiring and pulper feeding. All conveyors are available in a large number of variants optimized to handle different capacities, pulp qualities, bale weights and bale dimensions. The baling system is adaptive and flexible. Each conveyor is equipped with its own PLC and software that provides precision control of the bales.

Wire Remover-Unit

Valmet Wire Remover-Unit offers a cost-efficient, fully automatic solution for dewiring and destacking pulp bale units.

Bleaching of chemical pulp

The key success factors in bleaching chemical pulp are effective mixing of bleaching chemicals into the pulp, well-defined retention times in bleaching reactors and barrier washing between bleaching stages. Barrier washing results in low chemical consumption, low effluent flows and the possibility to operate at zero fresh water consumption.

Bale quality system, BQS

Valmet, the global leader in pulp and paper lines, supplies the Bale quality system (BQS) as a supervisory tool designed to keep track of production data and quality parameters for bale handling. BQS is a unique system that tracks each individual bale, bale set and bale unit throughout the production line. The system uses absolute bale position tracking to ensure exceptional reliability of key data.