Pulping and fiber videos

Metsä Group's bioproduct mill in Äänekoski was started up on August 15, 2017. Valmet's delivery to the mill included a recovery boiler, pulp drying line, gasification plant, lime kiln, sulfuric acid plant, and mill-wide Valmet DNA automation system.

Our recovery boiler is more than a superb combination of state-of-the-art technical features with skillfully designed details. It’s a complete solution for your mill combining leading recovery boiler technologies and automation, and our network of service professionals is ready to back your operation – wherever, whenever.

Metsä Board's new folding boxboard production line in Husum, Sweden is supplied by Valmet. The new volume is targeted at the Americas as well as at food service end-uses globally.

RoboStackcoiler offers a cost-efficient, fully automatic solution for dewiring and destacking pulp bale units. The machine, which handles all unit sizes on the market, combines safe dewiring technology and efficient destacking down to single bales for pulp receiving lines at rates of up to 200 bales/h.

RoboDestacker is a fully automatic machine for efficient destacking of pulp bale units down to single bales after manual dewiring. This high-capacity, 100 % electric powered solution, available in stationary or movable versions, delivers destacking rates of up to 285 bales/h.

RoboCoiler is the fastest and most cost-efficient dewiring solution for single bales. This fully automatic, high-capacity machine removes all wire configurations at rates of up to 140 bales/h.

RoboCoiler is the fastest and most cost-efficient dewiring solution for single bales. This fully automatic, high-capacity machine removes all wire configurations at rates of up to 140 bales/h.

Valmet RoboFolder is a folding machine that produces finished bales wrapped in pulp sheets or roll paper. This proven design produces smart, uniform finished bales at rates of up to 300 bales/h and has well-documented high availability from its use at well over one hundred mills around the world.

This fully automatic system for efficient and reliable marking of pulp bales is part of a complete RoboBaling line. The Valmet inkjet marker applies high-quality printing to mark bales with company logos, pulp trademarks and other relevant information such as production data.

Valmet RoboTyer is a tying machine that automatically applies high-tensile steel wire around pulp bales at preselected positions. Each wire is tied at the bottom of the bale by a double-twisted knot.

This compact press for high-capacity production of easy-to-handle bales meets the highest requirements for reliability and availability. RoboPress delivers RoboBaling technology’s proven cost-efficiency benefits in the production of up to 300 bales/h.

RoboStacker is a high-capacity stacker that can process up to 300 bales/h. The machine offers rapid and gentle handling of pressed, unwrapped and untied bales during lifting and stacking to produce bale units weighing up to 1000 kg.

The RoboStacktyer consists of a press unit and tying unit, for highly efficient production of smart, compact wire-tied bale units at a capacity of up to 50 units per hour. The units typically consisting of four to eight bales, which are then ready for shipping.

The benefits of Valmet Smelt-X to recovery boiler operators are many. As most of the smelt bed is removed while the boiler is still operating, the whole boiler, including the remnants of the smelt bed, cools during depressurization after firing is stopped.