Automation for Board and Paper

Together with our customers, Valmet finds the best possible automation setup. We proactively develop new machinery and control solutions for the paper and board industry that improve operational processes. We understand the connections between raw material quality, fiber properties, and board and paper final quality.  

Our automation solutions not only serve paper and board production lines but also improve monitoring and controls of existing lines to improve machine line efficiency. Through intelligent automation, you get more out of your investments and gain a higher degree of control over final quality while saving material costs and energy. 

Digital, autonomous operations have become the guiding principle for board and paper producers worldwide. The journey towards full optimization starts with data. Our wide range of sensors and on-line measurements deliver precise data critical to board and paper making processes.  

The process data is fed to Valmet’s intelligent analyzers which are integrated with the related process control loops. Production teams monitor and manage end-to-end through Valmet DNAe, a distributed control system that unifies all the data into structured, easy-to-understand information. 

Valmet’s advanced process and quality controls combined with accurate, real-time data from the entire machine line significantly raises the potential for enhanced safety and efficiency, cost reductions, and lower environmental impacts. 

Valmet provides complete automation solutions that optimize the entire production chain — from raw materials to end products. Through advanced control technologies and seamless system integration, we help board and paper producers achieve higher efficiency, consistent quality, and sustainable performance.

The DCS is the core of automated operations, including critical process and drive controls of the paper and board machine line. It provides a consistent, web-based user experience for monitoring process controls, optimizing targets, assessing equipment condition, generating detailed reports and more. Essential information is accessible from any device regardless of physical location. 

With Valmet’s advanced control and optimization technologies, mills can achieve precise process control and smarter, data-driven decisions at every stage of production.

Your automation system plays an essential role in ensuring every asset is performing exactly as it should so that processes stay in your planned, uninterrupted optimum window of operation. Over quality is as costly as under quality, so your automation system needs to keep process in an optimum operation window with lowest possible variability. 

Valmet’s distributed control system, Valmet DNAe, combined with high-precision analyzers, flawless low-level controllers, and advanced process controls, eliminates all possible sources of variability, from human operators to equipment and raw materials. 

Intelligent, real-time adjustments compensate for changes in equipment behavior and raw material quality variations that impact fiber properties. This enables you to consistently do more with less, and with intuitive tools give you up-to-date reports on, for example, energy and chemical use, vital information is a glance away for data-driven decision-making. 

Valmet’s decades of unparalleled experience in pulp and paper machines and automation are always available through our global service network. Through remote and local support, Valmet experts help to ensure you get the highest possible performance from your assets over their entire lifetime. 

From smooth implementation to fast, reliable start-up and beyond, Valmet Services help train and support your teams. Together we make the right choices for your unique paper and board production operations, using predictive diagnostics and extensive experience with automation and process equipment performance. 

Connecting and digitalizing production sites can create unwanted opportunities for cyber criminals. Control systems with remote access must be hardened against the growing threats against industries and their critical infrastructure. 

Our paper and board automation solutions are developed following secure-by-design principles. Cybersecure from field equipment to control systems all the way up to plant-wide planning and optimization, Valmet systems provide peace of mind in a rapidly evolving world digital world.