OptiWin Drum two-drum base winder

Reliable winding for medium-width lines

The OptiWin two-drum base winder is renowned for its extreme robustness and utmost reliability. It is ideal for grades that tolerate a high nip loads, such as linerboard, corrugating medium, uncoated wood-free, and DIP news. The level of automation is high to reach high capacity.

High capacity

Excellent web separation

Robust construction ensures trouble free operation and superior roll quality

Easy operation

Valmet winders have the best spreading available on the market, it is based to geometrical separation instead of friction separation used by other suppliers. Geometrical spreading is not affected by tension profiles or web speeds. Webs are parallel after the separation and do not cause concave rolls like with friction spreading do.

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Slitter management

Slitter management was developed by Valmet to help our customers overcome winder problems such as poor slitting equipment condition, poor quality blades and bands, dull blades and bands, hand injuries and insufficient operator slitting process knowledge and abilities. Valmet Slitter management brings slitting best practices to your winder. Our services and technology include state-of-the-art blade design and materials, sharpness techniques, safe and easy slitter changes, and comprehensive OEM s...

Winder drum covers

Valmet’s soft roll covers for winding applications provide good wear resistance and durability for high speed winding, resulting in long running times and high production levels. The hard thermal coatings for winder drums are even applicable on-site, with no need to remove the drum from the winder.

Roll maintenance

Valmet’s modular maintenance service solutions consists of roll maintenance, roll reconditioning, and roll upgrade services. These solutions help board and papermakers achieve maximum performance with transparent and consistently high-quality maintenance services.

iRoll technology

Valmet iRoll technology improves production efficiency and product quality by assuring optimal runnability of board and paper machines. Papermaker can obtain significant cost savings by improved nip profiles, parent roll hardness profiles and tension profiles as well as printer and converter satisfaction.

Winder Diagnostics for board and paper machines

Valmet Winder Diagnostics gives detailed insights into your winding performance, helps to avoid unplanned stops, and increases the overall end-product quality.

Winder improvements

Our winding solutions improve production or maintenance efficiency and ensure good customer roll performance at the printing house or converting plant. The improvement process looks deeper into your winder to identify and solve known or hidden problems and to find opportunities for improvement.

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Board and paper news

Explore our latest news and learn more about our full-scope offering for the board and paper industries.

Improved HC press control with Valmet High Solids Measurement

May 25, 2023

BillerudKorsnäs Karlsborg’ mill wanted to measure pulp consistency before high consistency refining, after the HC presses, so they acquired two Valmet High Solids Measurements (Valmet HS) installed in stock preparation before the board machine.

GSPP PM3 - sustainable containerboard production in Malaysia

May 25, 2023

In 2021, GS Paperboard & Packaging (GSPP) started up their PM 3 board machine at their Selangor site in Malaysia. It produces testliner grades from 100 percent recycled raw material and is equipped with the most modern Valmet-supplied papermaking technology.

Asia Symbol PM 13 advances to a new high

May 25, 2023

The construction and start-up of Asia Symbol Guangdong Paper’s (ASGD) PM 13 represents a new success. The project took just 17 months and started up on schedule in March 2022. Just four months later it reached a speed of 1,610 m/min.

BCTMP line and BM1 start-up at Liansheng Pulp & Paper in Zhangzhou

May 24, 2023

Experience the successful startup of folding boxboard making line BM1 on May 1, 2023 at Liansheng Pulp & Paper (Zhangzhou) Co., Ltd. The start-up of BM1 marks an important milestone of their integrated forestry-pulp-paper project with an annual output of 3.9 million tons. It’s another solid monument built by both Valmet & Liansheng. The filler ply pulp of BM1 is from Valmet BCTMP line, which was successfully started up on the same day.

Pick-up roll running time extended at Hamburger Hungaria

May 22, 2023

Hamburger Hungaria was troubled by short running times, an unscheduled downtime and extensive maintenance on its PM 7 pick-up rolls. In 2019, Valmet delivered two oil-lubricated pick-up rolls with a two-suction chamber solution to the mill and the running time of pick-up suction roll more than tripled.

Valmet and Cascades celebrate successful start-up of a grade conversion rebuild at Bear Island in Ashland, Virginia

May 19, 2023

On May 2, Cascades announced that it produced its first roll of 100% recycled containerboard at the Bear Island mill in Virginia, United States. As previously announced, Valmet supplied an extensive paper machine-grade conversion rebuild for this mill.