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Secured production line availability with Valmet service agreement at Sappi Kirkniemi
Sappi’s Kirkniemi mill extended its cooperation with Valmet to a service agreement covering various services and spare parts for all of their three papermaking lines. Especially the tail threading equipment maintenance needed the expertise skills that were not sufficiently available in-house.
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Improving press performance step by step at Thai Cane PM2
Thai Cane Paper tackled press section problems in close cooperation with Valmet’s Laem Chabang Service Center and global experts.
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Decreased drive energy consumption with Press Roll Cover PP
A pair of press rolls in BillerudKorsnäs Gruvön PM 6, producing containerboard grades, started to require recovering as the old rubber covers were wearing out. BillerudKorsnäs has clearly detailed targets on energy-efficient production. In addition, mill’s primary requirement for press rolls was uncompromised durability.
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Successful QCS migration leads to second system ahead of schedule
Faced with replacing an aging quality control system on board machine 3, Ningbo Zhonghua Paper selected Valmet* because of its innovative sensor technology, especially the direct coat weight measurement. The results were so good that within a year they replaced a second quality control system on BM2 ahead of schedule and report being very satisfied with both deliveries.
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Annual planning cuts downtime at Canadian pulp mill
Reduce downtime with customized annual outage planning. Learn how a pulp mill partnered with Valmet for OEM expertise, spare parts planning, and on-site outage support.
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Setúbal PM4 - modern paper making line for producing high-quality uncoated fine paper grades
The PM 4, known as About the Future, was officially opened in 2009 and boasts one of the world's largest and most sophisticated machines for producing uncoated paper. Turing out reels 10.4 metres wide, this machine is able to produce more than 500 thousand tons of paper a year, at a rate of 30 metres a second.
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The world's largest and fastest woodfree-producing paper machine
The world's largest and fastest woodfree-producing paper machine was started-up at the Zhanjiang Chenming mill in China. The recorded speed was 1,808 m/min. During a 24-hour run, the 11.15-meter-wide PM 1 produced high quality printing paper at a basis weight of 70 g/m2.
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Coating kitchen automation renewal at Norske Skog Bruck
Norske Skog Bruck mill replaced coating kitchen automation system with Valmet DNA
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LD Celulose - New dissolving pulp mill
LD Celulose S.A., a joint venture of Lenzing and Duratex for a new 500,000 t/year dissolving pulp mill in Minas Gerais state, Brazil.
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Trouble-free production at Burgo’s Verzuolo paper mill
Remote condition analysis with Valmet’s expert services has proved an invaluable tool for achieving trouble-free production at Burgo’s Verzuolo paper mill in Italy.
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