Aligning mill operating decisions in real-time using mill-wide optimization

Name: Aligning mill operating decisions in real-time using mill-wide optimization
Start: 2025-09-17T04:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-09-17T04:00:00+00:00
Location: Automate to innovate

Start date: Sep 17, 2025

End date: Sep 17, 2025

Location: Automate to innovate, North America

Date: September 17th, 10 a.m. EDT, 45 minutes + Q&A

Description

In today’s pulp and paper industry, operational decisions are often made in isolation—leading to inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and missed opportunities. This webinar explores how Valmet’s Mill-Wide Optimization solutions enable real-time alignment across departments, helping mills operate as a unified system rather than disconnected units.

Join us to discover how integrated decision-making powered by advanced analytics and automation can improve production efficiency, reduce variability, and support sustainability goals. Whether you're looking to optimize fiberline operations, balance energy use, or improve paper machine performance, this session will show how real-time coordination across the mill can unlock measurable value.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how Valmet can help you:

Align operating decisions across departments in real time for better mill-wide performance
Break down data silos and enable smarter, faster decision-making
Optimize fiberline, recovery, energy, and paper production processes together
Improve efficiency, reduce variability, and support sustainability goals

Can't make the live session? Don't worry, once you register we will send you a full high quality recording of the insider session that you can review at any time.

We also offer a Certificate of Attendance for this webinar, which serves as a great way to showcase your professional development—perfect for sharing internally and externally to display on platforms such as LinkedIn to highlight your commitment to continuous learning. To receive a Certificate, you must attend up until the Q&A portion.

[NOTE: This session will be in the English language. This event is only offered to pulp, paper, board and tissue producers, P&P industry consultants and university faculty and students. Use your company or university domain email address when registering. Products and services mentioned in this presentation may not be available in all regions.]

VALMET PRESENTERS

Greg Fralic

Greg Fralic
Senior Manager, Optimization Solutions

Greg is an advanced process control engineer with nearly 30 years of experience in the Pulp and Paper industry. Throughout his career, he has specialized in developing and implementing innovative process optimization solutions, with a recent focus on mill-wide optimization and next-generation advanced process control. Greg has been with Valmet for over two decades and currently serves as Senior Manager, Optimization Solutions.

Matias Hultgren
Technical Manager, Mill Wide Optimization

Matias Hultgren is the Technical Manager for Mill-Wide Optimization at Valmet Automation, based in Tampere, Finland. He holds both M.Sc. and D.Sc. (Tech.) degrees in process engineering from the University of Oulu, specializing in control and systems engineering. With over a decade of experience in research and development across academia and industry, Matias has worked extensively on solutions for simulation, monitoring, control, and optimization in power plants, pulp and paper processes, and mineral and metallurgical operations. Since joining Valmet in 2022, he has led the design and implementation of advanced optimization solutions that enhance mill efficiency, stability, and sustainability.