Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill has a Valmet co-operation service agreement for maintenance and remote control of the Valmet Breast Roll Shakers (earlier FormMaster) on both of its paper machines PM 9 and PM 10. The service agreement has increased the reliability of the mill ensuring that the paper they produce remains of high quality.

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Cartones Ponderosa strengthens its competitive advantage

Mexico’s leading producer of folding boxboard invested in curtain coating and air impingement drying technology to improve board quality, lower costs and boost productivity.

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Steam profiler generates energy savings at Smurfit Kappa Nettingsdorf

Smurfit Kappa Nettingsdorf is one of the leading producers for Kraftliner in Europe. Their PM6 has a capacity of up to 450,000 ton/year. Energy efficiency is a key element in their management system in order to improve operational costs and reduced environmental impact. An existing steambox was found to work inefficient, and after careful evaluation of the current process parameters and assessment of improvement potential, Nettingsdorf decided to replace this steambox by state of the art Valmet IQ Steam Profiler. Target was to achieve a significant decrease in specific steam consumption for the paper machine.

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Energy savings with OptiDry Coat air dryers at Hansol Daejeon PM 32

Hansol's decision to rebuild their FBB producing board machine at Hansol mill with OptiDry Coat air dryers have resulted in energy savings of up to 45%. They've also seen improvements on their board quality; printability is good and visual appearance has improved. Furthermore, runnability has improved and the “folding” effect reduced.

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24% energy savings with new OptiFiner Pro refiner at Mondi Neusiedler

Mondi Neusiedler Mill in Austria had a clear target in energy consumption reduction. They saw the potential for energy savings and promptly commenced on a project to replace existing short fiber refiners with just one OptiFiner Pro refiner.

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SCA Östrand - World's largest softwood pulp line

SCA's expanded Östrand pulp mill located Timrå, Sweden, had its start-up in 2018. With this project, SCA Östrand doubled its production capacity from 430,000 tonnes to 900,000 tonnes per year.

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More accurate and reliable Kappa numbers

Visy Tumut is an integrated pulp and paper mill with a kraft pulp mill and two board machines. To ensure the highest pulp quality, more accurate and reliable Kappa numbers are needed as feedback on how well their continuous digester meets the set pulp quality targets.

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Valmet took total responsibility in Karlsborg and got the order

BillerudKorsnäs Karlsborg replaced the old quality control system and a rebuild after the dryer section was needed. Valmet took responsibility for the rebuild and the control system, and the grammage and dry content control is done by Valmet IQ System.

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Stora Enso Sunila Mill - LignoBoost plant for high quality kraft lignin production

Stora Enso’s Sunila Mill produces kraft lignin with Valmet’s LignoBoost™ technology.

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SCA Obbolas new cooking plant

Obbola’s previous cooking plant was built in 1961 and was a batch system with eight digesters. Despite a number of renovations, the batch digester had reached the end of the road, and in October 2015 it was replaced with Valmet’s CompactCooking, a two-vessel continuous cooking system. It consists primarily of the ImpBin technology for impregnation and a steam/liquor phase digester for cooking wood chips.

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