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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World records and excellent quality at OKI pulp mill
Valmet was chosen to deliver key technology to APP’s OKI pulp and paper mill in Indonesia. The mill is one of the largest in the world and has hit several world records since its startup in 2016 while delivering top quality.
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Towards new AI-based business models
High-quality data will be a key source of business value in the future. While machines and equipment are one part of a wider production system that creates value, software will have an increasing role in transforming data into digital services and solutions.
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100th order proves flexibility of CFB boilers
The more challenging the fuel, the more flexibility Valmet’s circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler shows. It has evolved from a coal-only boiler to combusting biomass and anything in between.
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Stronger and more flexible
Fifteen grade changes per day and meeting the needs of more than 100 customers – that’s the reality for Essity’s Collodi Mill, requiring fast adaptation and striving for efficiency in colored tissue production.
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Sun Paper PM 38 on the move
In March 2018, PM 38 started producing fine paper a month ahead of schedule at the Yanzhou paper mill in Shandong province, China. PM 38 was a Valmet relocation project for Shandong Sun Paper Industry of a papermaking line Valmet had originally supplied to Stora Enso’s Suzhou mill in 1996.
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From waste to energy
Zibo Green Energy New Energy Co., Ltd. is the first company in China to utilize Valmet’s advanced circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler technology for turning waste into energy. Besides raising its performance to the next level, their example is setting the direction for the entire municipal Waste to Energy segment.
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Improved profiles with new QCS systems
New quality control systems (QCS) in both paper machines at Bäckhammar paper mill have drastically improved grammage and moisture profiles while reducing profile variations.
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It’s a shared journey
Stora Enso and Valmet have a long history of working for better results at the Veitsiluoto Mill. The cooperation has brought benefits ranging from economies of scale to joint innovation, and helped the mill to improve their production capabilities over time.
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Smooth transition to new bleaching line
A new bleaching line project for one of the world’s biggest pulp producers exceeded expectations in many fronts and received a provisional approval in record time thanks to excellent project planning.
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SCA starts world’s largest softwood pulp line
The world’s biggest production line for bleached softwood kraft pulp is now up and running in Sweden. SCA’s massive Helios project, which involved a complete rebuild of the existing Östrand pulp mill, is a textbook example of how a successful project should be executed.