4 ways to transform your stock preparation and wet end

Cut operating costs

Did you know that by stabilizing key process conditions, you can reduce your mill’s consumption of energy, chemicals, and fresh water? For example, Valmet automatic refining controls can decrease your refining energy demand and optimize the pulp ratio to reduce press section dryness and drying energy costs. Accurate measurements also enable you to follow processes in real time and ensure that chemicals are dosed exactly as required, stabilizing white water quality. With our measurement solutions, you can also minimize fresh water consumption by measuring and optimizing disc filter performance for sweetener stock and polymer addition.

Get more value from every fiber

With Valmet’s online measurements and optimized stock preparation, you can reduce reliance on expensive fiber components while maintaining your targeted sheet properties. This lets you optimize your yield, improve sheet quality, and reduce broke. It also means faster grade changes, fewer process delays, and less waste. With more stable production, you get improved availability, predictable performance, and maximum return from your raw materials.

Run faster, longer, and more reliably

When you stabilize your wet end chemistry and retention, you can minimize stickies, deposits, and chemistry-related disturbances – a stable wet end is a profitable wet end. Valmet’s automation lets you achieve this with advanced charge and retention control to ensure stable dewatering and fines management. This reduces web breaks and unplanned shutdowns while enabling higher machine speeds, giving you improved runnability and fewer interruptions for a higher production output.

Turn process control into measurable profit

When you can measure and control the whole process in real time, you can turn local optimization into mill-wide gains. Valmet connects stock preparation, wet end, and quality control in a unified mill-wide optimization concept. This enables mills to reduce quality variability and boost process performance, delivering more value across the production chain. With Valmet’s Mill-Wide Optimization, you can achieve cost savings that go well beyond improvements in isolated subprocesses.

In practice, mills can see up to €2 million in annual savings from reduced quality variation.