Press felts for board and paper machines

Excellent runnability and planned lifetime

Valmet's press felts are always tailor-made to the specifications of each individual board and paper machine and position: paper grade, furnish, speed, dimensions. The proven world class press felt manufacturing technology ensures that our press felts respond to the highest customer expectations. High quality Valmet Press Felts deliver results in terms of lifetime, energy savings, sheet dryness and reliability.

Excellent runnability

Fast start-up

High sheet dry content

Marking-free

Valmet Press Felt EMX M Bioneer

This design is especially targeted for board machines. The felt features long lifetime and stable running. The felt has enough water handling capacity to avoid crushing and high CMD stability to avoid wrinkles and folding. The felt structure is optimal against marking.

Excellent sheet quality for the targeted grade
Balanced dewatering in the nip and the Uhle boxes
Felt openness and void volume is optimized for needed paper grades
Part of the raw material is replaced with a bio-based alternative

This felt style is used in both center press and linear press concepts in all positions.

Valmet Press Felt EMX

This felt has a relatively open and compressible structure that results in less sheet breaks and more production. It has good compaction resistance and batt fiber anchorage, resulting in longer running times. A strong and flexible laminated base gives an excellent dewatering capacity in various positions for all paper grades. Smooth surface ensures good properties for the targeted grade

Fast start-up
Efficient nip dewatering
Long and stable service life
Less runnability problems
Good sheet quality

Valmet Press Felt TSM

The safe, easy and quick installation of Valmet Press Felt TSM, a seamed felt, decreases the need of manpower and crane time. It is applicable for all board and paper grades and felt positions. It has a double or triple layer structure with monofilament yarns and the void volume and openess are adjustable.

Valmet Press Felt TMO/SMO

The TMO/SMO treatment upgrades the felt's performance properties such as runnability, lifetime, smoothness and dewatering stability over the whole lifetime. This unique technology can be applied to all Valmet Press Felt designs.

Faster start-up
High and constant dewatering capacity
Improved paper profiles
Break free running
Increased lifetime

Other Valmet Press Felts

Valmet Press Felt LMR

Durable laminated modular structure for board machines to achieve reliable dewatering and long lifetime.

Valmet Press Felt SPM

Special woven structure for high nip dewatering and immediate starts up for printing and writing machines and high-speed board machines.

Valmet Press Felt TSR

Traditional single base felts that offer a large range of possibilities with highly adjustable designs to cover almost all positions specially for printing and writing grades.

Valmet Press Felt AQ

Non-woven structure for high nip dewatering and immediate starts up for printing and writing machines.

Valmet Press Felt STM

Hybrid non-woven and woven structures for high nip dewatering and targeted lifetime for printing and writing machines.

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Looking for immediate climate actions? Here you have a quick win: Valmet Press Felt EMX M Bioneer with reduced carbon footprint. Valmet is pioneering the use of bio-based raw materials in paper machine clothing production. In Valmet Press Felt EMX M Bioneer, part of the fossil raw material has been replaced by a bio-based alternative, thereby reducing the felt's carbon footprint.

Seamed Valmet Press Felts let customers benefit from safe and quick installation and easy seaming. Overall costs fall, as less labor is needed to install the felt and the stoppages are relatively short.

High quality and the right fabric design to customer needs are the backbones for Valmet’s whole paper machine clothing offering: Valmet Forming Fabrics, Valmet Press Felts, Valmet Shoe Press Belts and Valmet Dryer Fabrics.

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