Process upgrades for board and paper production

Cost effective way to reach new board and paper production targets

How to maintain the competitiveness of your core processes and to develop them throughout the lifecycle? We provide a wide range of solutions for upgrading and enhancing processes and machinery. The scope is always based on your specific needs and the solutions are tailored to maximize the performance of machinery processes.

As a leading technology expert in board and paper we have extensive expertise and experience. This knowledge is incorporated in all our products, giving us exceptional insight into all aspects of upgrading processes and machinery.

Small investments to remove bottlenecks

Upgrades are small or mid-size investments which removes production bottlenecks or extends the original process design limitations. Typical process upgrade building blocks are design engineering, new components, rebuild and upgrades and process controls and efficient commissioning and start-up service.

Read more about the process improvements and upgrade opportunities with refining, screening, headboxes, formers, press section, dryer section, winders, roll handling, quality, vacuum systems, tail threading and cleaning.

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Is the new starch cooking unit part of your operation?

We have developed Enzymatic Starch Cooking ZE (zero effluent) to improve operational reliability and quality of the starch cooking process. The system has a smaller carbon footprint – thanks to improved design – as it uses less wasted starch compared to conventional cooking process. The built-in heat recovery is utilized in integrated hot water preparation, resulting in energy savings and decreased load and cost for water treatment.

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References and articles

Rebuild concept improves the performance of Laakirchen Papier’s PM10

Laakirchen Papier was looking for ways to improve the web stability of their PM10 machine and to prepare it for future production increases. Thanks to Valmet’s rebuild concept, they were quickly able to achieve their target to increase production speed.

Solving problems with a service attitude

Ji’an Group’s coated white-top liner machine PM 3 opted for a Valmet Breast Roll Shaker to improve the formation. "Valmet’s service attitude was superb, and the end result is excellent", says Young Lu, Vice President of Production of Ji’an Group.

Results through performance agreements

Valmet’s performance agreement is a mill-wide development program targeted at perfecting the customer’s production line. Following this systematic development approach, Valmet improves and maintains the customer’s competitiveness.

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