Pulp drying and baling

Move forward with world record technology

Valmet offers best available technology for efficient and economic pulp drying and baling. Our wide and flexible technology offering facilitates several pulp grades with end products like dissolving, fluff and market pulp. With efficient solutions we offer you the lowest steam and energy consumption on the market. The high availability and high speed of our reliable equipment means more production.

Leader in speciality pulp grades, roll finishing and dissolving

Supplier of the biggest machines in the world

Capacities from 500 to 4300 t/d

Lowest steam and energy consumption

Steam consumption: 800 kg/Adt

Energy consumption: 100 kW/Adt

Highest cutter availability and high speed baling line

High speed: 300 bales/h

Our professionals have built the largest pulp dryers in the world and applied them successfully in three different continents. Valmet drying machines hold world record capacities with gap former and fourdrinier technologies, with single machines daily productions topping over 4300 tons.

An easy-to-run and high capacity technology concept gives flexibility to operate different wood species and an advantageous overall economy.

Improve your performance together with Valmet.

Optimized and stable operation with advanced bale weight control

By utilizing the data collected from the scale by the Bale press, optimized operation can be achieved. The data is fed back in the process, adjusting settings to improve performance, step by step all the way back to the headbox. With this, all bales are kept with the same width, even during recirculation of grades change. The data is also used to adjust the profile to keep all bales with the same weight, compensating moisture differences caused by felts or other process variations.

Pulp drying automation in CMPC Guaiba II, Brazil, is a part of Valmet's mill-wide system.

Our solutions

Bleached stock screening

Wet end

Airborne dryer

Cutter

Fiber flash dryer

Baling

Process upgrades for baling

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Arauco Sucuriú – a giant in the making

Arauco Sucuriú, the world’s largest single-phase pulp mill project, is under construction in Brazil. A project of this scale is a true marathon in which meticulous planning, good equipment, and excellent cooperation are key to successful execution.

Valmet and SAMK strengthen cooperation to foster future expertise

Valmet and Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK) have signed a new partnership agreement to enhance their cooperation in the technical expertise, research projects, and work-based learning.

Valmet Cutter combines safety with user-friendliness

Valmet Cutter provides the utmost safety without compromising on availability. It makes operating a cutter in a pulp drying and baling line safer, as well as more efficient and more user-friendly than ever.

Maximizing the pulp drying availability with Valmet’s services

As a pulp producer, you know the importance of the pulp dryer for your mill – as a world-leading technology expert, we know how to secure its availability and runnability every day, year after year.

Valmet Cutter Webinar: New features to enhance safety, reliability and user-friendliness

Valmet Cutter is now safer than ever. The new features provide utmost safety, but also reliability and user-friendliness for pulp drying and baling lines.

Lumpbreaker felting equipment results in “grand slam” for mill performance

Revamping a pulp drying line for improved performance and higher tonnage—discover how a Southeastern U.S. pulp mill optimized its operations.

Successful press section rebuild at Fibre Excellence SAS Provence in France

A press section rebuild has successfully started up on April 2nd 2024 at Fibre Excellence SAS Provence mill in Tarascon, France. The rebuild was a part of a modernization plan, which included 180 million euros of investments over four years, to upgrade the plant to the highest industrial and environmental standards.

Södra Cell Värö goes big – gets ready to deliver jumbo bales with a baling line upgrade delivered by Valmet

Södra Cell Värö and Valmet have been cooperating for decades. One of the latest successful joint projects was a baling line upgrade, which enabled Värö mill to start delivering jumbo bales to its customers. With a production capacity of 780,000 tons per year, Södra Cell’s Värö mill is one of the largest and most modern softwood pulp mills in the world. Located in western Sweden, it also serves as an important supplier of green energy, generating 1.6 TWh annually.

Our expertise is at your service

We at Valmet are committed to moving our customers performance forward and ensure smooth, disruption-free operation, supporting you all the way.