How to reach sustainable future with Valmet’s services

Forward to a sustainable future with Valmet’s services

Are you aiming to improve the sustainability and efficiency of your process?

Whether you work in Board & Paper, Tissue, Pulp or Energy industry, Valmet’s comprehensive service offering helps to lower your environmental footprint significantly – at the same time improving your operational results.The key is a close collaboration and the right combination of services for every stage of the lifecycle. As most of the environmental impact comes from the operational phase, working consistently in close cooperation with your team, we can offer many concrete solutions.

From energy, water and raw material savings to circularity and lower emissions, together we’ll keep the process reliable, optimized and sustainable to the fullest extent – benefiting both your business and the environment.

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Services designed to meet your business targets

Optimized operational results

High availability & reliability

Reduced emissions, energy and water consumption

Maximized value of raw materials

Optimized performance

Increased production efficiency

High-value end products

Improved safety

‘Valmet’s way to serve’ concept aims to ensure the right combination of services for every stage in the lifecycle with a lower environmental footprint. The services offering ranges from spare and process parts to outsourcing and process upgrades, with the possibility to complement them with Industrial Internet solutions on site and remotely. Read the full article »

Over the years, we’ve been constantly developing our services to improve the reliability and performance of our customers’ production processes. Valmet’s unique combination of process technology, services and automation, and more than 200 years of industrial experience lay a strong foundation for helping our customers to reach the wanted maintenance and operational results of their production process,”

Aki Niemi, Business Line President, Services business line, Valmet

View case examples on how we can help our customers to reach their mill's sustainability targets

New technology moves Jiangmen Xinghui Paper towards a low-carbon future

Results:

Medium-pressure steam consumption has been cut by more than 30%
The leakage and exhaust air have been reduced significantly
Printing quality has been greatly improved

Solving shadow marking issue and reaching sustainability targets at SCGP Siam Kraft

Results:

The problem with shadow marking was solved
Consumption of virgin fiber reduced from 24 to 19 gsm and total fiber consumption
reduced
Board quality improved
Calender roll grinding intervals increased from 30 to 40 days
Maintenance reliability improved

Getting more from less in pulp production

Achievable result with collaboration

Raw material and energy efficiency combined with circularity
High quality pulp with low operational costs

Energy savings through optimized doctoring at the dryer section

Results:

Lower your energy costs
Improved drying capacity
Better runnability
Lower doctoring costs and less waste

Increased safety and sustainability

Other achievable results with Drying Section Performance Agreement:

Commonly around 5-10% reduction in gas consumption
Improved safety and reliability
Better availability

4-steps to energy efficiency: Benchmark your energy efficiency within the industry

The first step on this route is benchmarking.
The second step is quantifying variabilities.
The third step is optimization.
The fourth and final step is investing in new technologies.

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Other success stories from our customers

Long running times with ceramic roll covers

Mondi Swiecie selected Valmet ceramic coatings to protect its wire rolls. Ceramic coatings have now been used successfully for their ECO 7 forming section rolls for several years.

Together toward the performance goals

In addition to replacing their aging twin wire press rolls, Metsä Board Joutseno have selected one partner for everything: rolls, covers and service - Valmet.

Excellent runnability with Valmet Screen baskets

Valmet’s innovative laminar design Screen Basket was installed at Norske Skog Bruck’s PM4 with good results: there was a clear performance boost in the approach flow system and improved runnability.

Energy savings, increased lifetime and pulp quality targets reached

Sappi Ngodwana decided to replace the conventional pulp stones in the pulp mill’s grinders with Valmet’s innovative Galileo grinding technology.

Resume production at optimal condition

The two most important priorities in the project were to secure the technicians’ safety and to support Metsä Tissue in maintaining the tissue and towel production.

Optimized runnability and reduced emissions

Chip pre-steaming has reduced wood consumption by almost 3% as a result of the higher yield and the mill’s emissions of weak gases have been reduced

Stable quality and improved sheet dryness

Since the start-up, Yunnan Yunjing has relied on Valmet Black Belt shoe press belts. The cooperation has led to production efficiency and quality improvements.

Reduce downtime with press roll maintenance

With the help of scheduled roll maintenance a corrugated medium producer, linerboard producer and pulp producer resulted in improved runnability, longer component lifetime and reduced downtime

A poweful cooperation - Mill Maintenance Outsourcing

Outsourcing of maintenance operations has proven a powerful combination for Asia Symbol (Shandong) Pulp & Paper Co

Successful annual maintenance shutdown

A focus on safety, quality and meeting deadlines secured a successful result, and overall increased the reliability of the mill

Sustainable development of high-end cardboard production

The shared focus on continuous improvement has enabled Beihai Mill to become a benchmark for high-end white cardboard in China

Learning together

Valmet's Maintenance Schools and Roll Academies gather people from the pulp and paper industry to learn from Valmet and one another.

Improving rolls' availability

PT. Riau Andalan Kerinci Pulp Mill has signed a three years agreement with Valmet, covering their 35 TwinRoll Presses, to maintain high production and availability.

A breakthrough in cylinder surface cleaning

A breakthrough in cylinder surface cleaning - one of the development projects was improving doctoring on the dryer section to meet the quality requirements of production.

New sizer roll cover boosts performance

Palm Wörth installed a Valmet Sizer Roll Cover CF on their BM6 containerboard machine to improve its performance. The new roll cover has a running interval of more than 200 days, leading to higher machine availability and better paper quality.

Winning with outsourcing

The Babina Greda biomass power plant is a fluidized bed boiler – BioPower 8 CEX modular power plant – with a maximum electrical output of 10 MWel, based on a maximum heat output of 16 MWth

Improving wet pressing performance

N R Agarwal has been able to reduce web breaks, increase speed and boost post-press dry content on its PM5 with Valmet’s Intelligent Roll Solutions for press efficiency.

Doctoring for top runnability

Looking to further boost machine runnability and performance, Valmet was challenged to find potential areas of improvement

Performance Agreement aims for long-term improvements

Continuous performance development at Saica paper mills providing longevity, personal relationships and trust

Optimizing existing processes

Cooperation moves Whakatane forward in improving the performancethrough a Performance Agreement

Resource efficient paperboard packaging production

Long term relationship strengthened by performance agreement and renewed mill maintenance agreement

Partnership to improve and optimize

A long-term collaboration that keeps society running, for over a decade we have supported Övik Energi in driving plant development forward.

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