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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Valmet BTCMP line proves success at Guangxi Jingui Pulp & Paper
The proven success of the bleached chemi-thermo-mechanical pulp (BCTMP) production line of Guangxi Jingui Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd convinced APP to invest in another Valmet BCTMP line for their mill in Xiaogang, Ningbo.
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Best piloting for paper finishing
Valmet’s Paper Technology Center in Järvenpää, Finland, stands out with its unique paper finishing piloting services. To be even better and to correspond more accurately to the mill environment, the sizing section at the pilot facility has been updated with new spray beams and rolls.
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A digital leap in Field Services
The new mobile application @Field connects Valmet’s more than 1,100 Field Services professionals. It unifies how we work and further improves the customer experience.
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Sharpening competitiveness by boosting competence
Training is an essential part of Valmet’s long-term customer relationships and helps to ensure that customers get the most out of their equipment, systems and processes. Securing skilled workforce is also elementary for competitiveness.
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All you need for tissue machine clothing
It’s all moved rapidly since Valmet took the strategic decision to boost its tissue machine clothing development. The focus has been on the best possible raw materials, structure and runnability features of fabrics for tissue machines.
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Nordic Paper Bäckhammer: Three steps to record performance
Valmet’s new innovative solutions have enabled Nordic Paper Bäckhammar go full speed ahead and reach pulp production levels over 800 admt/d (air dry metric ton per day) while also increasing availability, reducing emissions, and reducing maintenance costs.
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Pulp for packaging grades – a growth area
E-commerce sets new records every year, and the long-term trend is clear. E-commerce, globalization, and increasing living standards, environmental awareness are driving the growing need for paper-based packaging.
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Pratt Industries PM 17: Expert training delivers a flawless start-up
Pratt Industries started up their new PM 17 board machine in 2019 at Wapakoneta, Ohio. The start-up was a great success thanks to both extensive training and the unique opportunity to train their personnel on exactly the same type of OptiConcept M line at Pratt’s PM 16 machine in Valparaiso, Indiana.
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Information age calls for empathic leaders
In the era of rapid digitalization and emerging new technologies, one may think that they would be at the center of learning efforts. But no. Focus should instead be put on the leaders’ capacity for reflective leadership and on fostering empathy, humility and audacity.
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Avoid the wrinkles and web breaks that result from poor splicing
Splicing offers little reward for a job well done, but big penalties to the bottom line for poor quality workmanship such as when customers return shipments.