Articles
Welcome to learn more about Valmet's technology and services offering! This section includes articles that highlight customer cases and success stories around the world, stories about Valmet's innovations and products, as well as give food for thought.
For those interested in helpful tips and practical methods for maintaining and finetuning your processes and equipment, we offer Up & Running articles that are intended to help you keep your paper, board, tissue and pulp machines up and running.
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Articles
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Sunila makes the most out of lignin
Stora Enso’s Sunila Mill produces kraft lignin with Valmet’s LignoBoostTM technology. In 2018, Stora Enso launched their dry lignin product, LineoTM by Stora Enso, which is an excellent alternative to fossil-based materials.
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Lignin Upgraded – new lignin qualities with LignoBoost
Valmet’s LignoBoost process has been developed further and new process concepts can tailor the extracted lignin into different qualities. This gives new options for kraft pulp mills to go into new businesses.
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Rising to the challenge to limit emissions
To meet the new, very tight NOx emission limits for its recovery boilers, Sun Paper turned to Valmet to deliver a DeNOx scrubber for recovery boiler.
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Focus on fuel flexibility
The new multifuel boiler plant at Turun Seudun Energiantuotanto (TSE) is an excellent example of the best features of CFB technology, such as the possibility to use whatever fuel is currently available at the lowest cost.
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High expectations met with Kruger's grade conversion rebuild
The interest in lightweight linerboard is on the rise in North America. In response, Kruger decided to let Valmet convert their newsprint machine to board machine.
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Recharge for moving energy producers’ performance forward
Today’s energy producers are facing many challenges: aging production facilities, cost pressures, challenging fuels, new emission regulations, and the rise of renewable energy sources. A recharge with Valmet can be an answer to these challenges.
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Shanying International and Valmet get closer through shared roadmap
Shanying International and Valmet have agreed to deepen their partnership to move Shanying’s performance and process reliability forward.
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Improving recovery boiler cooling and washing practices
The length of a mill outage is frequently set by the time needed for recovery boiler cooling, washing, inspections and repairs. The ways cooling and washing are carried out can be optimized so that the total outage time can be reduced.
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Rick's Tips - Solutions to common doctoring problems
One of the main causes for doctoring problems is the loading tube, which may be kinked, leaking or incorrectly pressurized. Additionally, there are a number of failure points such as pivot brackets, pivot rods, blade wear and sequencing.
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Up for the challenges of cellulosic ethanol production
Pretreatment is one of the most critical and challenging areas in the cellulosic ethanol production process. Valmet's BioTrac system, part of the front end in a biorefinery and used for prehydrolysis, contributes to both the quality and quantity of the ethanol produced.