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 Seal Strip Flex extends roll change intervals, case study
The seal strip on this mill's paper machine was wearing too rapidly. For five years they had struggled. Valmet's new flexible seal more than doubled runtimes.
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Mill Safety - Lockout procedures save lives and equipment
Locking out power sources and drives is an important safety procedure. If not done, components can be started while personnel are out of the operator's sight.
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Building success through warm, continuous support
Bringing innovation in automation to customers in Korea takes thorough preparation, in-depth knowledge and solid determination. And most of all, it takes mutual trust and long-term relationships. Valmet’s system partner PoinEx has what it takes to make a true difference for its customers in this market.
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Pioneering lignin extraction at Klabin Technology Center – with Valmet LignoBoost XS
A new demonstration-scale LignoBoost plant helps Klabin to further study the possibilities of lignin.
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Remote support ensures timely start-ups also during the COVID-19 outbreak
Thanks to remote connections and digital tools, Valmet has helped papermakers all over the world with their recent machinery start-ups, despite travel restrictions.
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Instant productivity boost with IQ Steam Profiler
Naini Papers, an integrated pulp and paper mill, invested in steam profilers to save steam and deliver better sheet quality.
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Stop waste due to cockle wrinkles - avoid contributing factors
Cockle wrinkles, common on light weight paper machines, cause waste paper and rejected rolls resulting from downstream sheet breaks. They are influenced by basis weight variation and high drying temperatures.
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Heat storage requires high system availability
When Vaasan Voima chose automation to control its new rock cavern heat storage – the largest of its kind in Finland – high system availability was the top priority.
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Flexible Service Agreement: Easy budgeting with predicable costs
Valmet now offers a fixed price volume purchase agreement to improve mill operations. Regardless of service type, maintenance costs will now be predictable.
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Success with the Valmet Acoustic Pyrometer at the Xinyuan Power Plant
Xinyuan power plant in China measures boiler furnace temperatures continuously with a Valmet's acoustic temperature measurement system.