Press felts for board and paper machines

Excellent runnability and planned lifetime

Press felts and fabrics by Valmet

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. This felt style is used in both center press and linear press concepts in all positions. Felt´s raw materials include biobased yarn with lower CO2 emissions for improving the carbon footprint of the felt.

  • 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
  • Biobased raw material has been utilized by mass balanced approach to improve carbon footprint 

 

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. 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's seam felts

Valmet’s seam felts enable a quick and easy installation with reduced manpower and crane time. Valmet has a wide portfolio in seam felts.  
 
Valmet Press Felt TSM has a double or triple layer structure with monofilament yarns and the void volume and openness are adjustable for all paper grades and positions.

Valmet Press Felt TLS is a strong and flexible triple layer seam felt that is especially designed for heavier board grades and high dewatering needs like for example the first press positions of kraftliner machines.

  • Safe and easy installation
  • Optimized water handling capacity
  • Reliable and trouble-free running
  • Durable seam structure without marking
Valmet Press Felt TSM

Valmet Press Felt TMO/SMO

Unique TMO/SMO treatment upgrades the felt's performance properties such as runnability, lifetime, smoothness and dewatering stability over the whole lifetime. This special TMO/SMO 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 has wide portfolios for all printing and writing machines as well as packaging board machines:

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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