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Waste heat is closer than you think

Integrating an industrial heat pump application into a flue gas condensing plant is an efficient way to capture the value of waste heat streams. Existing power plants already have all the necessary connections and systems in place to allow easy use of this most common waste stream in energy production.

SCA starts world’s largest softwood pulp line

The world’s biggest production line for bleached softwood kraft pulp is now up and running in Sweden. SCA’s massive Helios project, which involved a complete rebuild of the existing Östrand pulp mill, is a textbook example of how a successful project should be executed.

Smooth startup for dissolving pulp line

The results of Sun Paper’s first Valmet dissolving pulp mill in Laos speak for themselves: high production output, stable runs and reduced environmental load.

Successful start-up at Sun Paper’s Beihai Mill in China

Bright news from Sun Paper’s Beihai mill in China. At noon on the 6th of December 2021, Sun Paper’s new fiber line was successfully started up and produces bleached pulp.

Machine rebuild in Turkey

Hayat Kimya A.S., part of the Turkey-based Hayat Group, is today the largest tissue manufacturer for Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe with a production capacity of 420,000 tons per year. The company first made the decision to enter the tissue business in 2004, and their first tissue machine – TM1 – went into operation in 2006 at a mill in Izmit, Turkey.

What does a sustainable business mean?

Everyone is talking about sustainability - suppliers, producers, authorities, environmental agencies etc. But what does sustainability really mean? Does it mean the same to all of us? Often it is used synonymously with words like “green”. But “green” does not say anything about a product or process etc. being sustainable or not.

Tissue as soft as silk

Forestal y Papelera Concepcion in Chile selected Valmet’s Advantage NTT technology because of its flexibility and ability to deliver premium tissue paper with low energy consumption.

Fujian Hengan Group in China to produce premium tissue with hybrid technology from Valmet

The Chinese tissue market is developing, and a growing number of consumers are looking for tissue products with premium or even ultra-premium quality. To meet the increasing demand from the market, Fujian Hengan Group has decided to invest in two Advantage QRT tissue lines with Valmet Automation solutions.

Zhejiang Jingxing started up their new tissue line in China

On January 18, 2022, a new Valmet Advantage DCT 200 HS tissue line equipped with a Focus rewinder successfully started up at Jingxing Paper’s Pinghu mill.

The preferred ways of drying our hands

When the corona pandemic struck the world with force in the beginning of 2020 the focus on personal hygiene suddenly skyrocketed. Never before have we focused so much on washing our hands. But how do we prefer to dry our hands when visiting public washrooms? Katrin and Metsä Tissue have conducted their annual Washroom Survey to find out the answer.