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Tailoring lignin

Lignin is a good choice in many manufactured products. Here’s some current examples.

Two important milestones completed in ARAUCO's MAPA project

Valmet, as the company in charge of supplying key technologies for pulp production at ARAUCO's new MAPA Project production line, conducted the first tests on the recovery and power boilers in September, with optimal results, contributing to the progress of this mega project.

Pioneering lignin extraction in South America

A new demonstration-scale LignoBoost plant helps Klabin to further study the possibilities of lignin. The wide base of different wood species processed at the mill gives it a great opportunity to be a future producer of both softwood and hardwood lignin in South America.

Top-level availability and energy efficiency in evaporation

This article is a summary of a paper which will be presented at the International Chemical Recovery Conference ICRC in Brazil in 2021.

Successful start-up with remote support

Valmet’s and Ilim Group’s expert teams found new ways to collaborate remotely during commissioning and start-up phase of a new evaporation system at the Bratsk mill.

Taking the learnings from doctoral thesis to work as a product engineer

Tiina Keipi works as a product engineer in Valmet’s Recovery business unit. Before she joined Valmet she did her doctoral dissertation at the Tampere University of Technology but not in the area of recovery boilers but about Technology Development and Techno-Economic Analysis of Hydrogen Production by Thermal Decomposition of Methane.

Building mill-wide automation for the mill of the future

With mill-wide automation, Metsä Fibre Kemi bioproduct mill aims to run the new mill in a balanced way, control the process and ensure its running flawlessly, and through that, ensure high quality, cost-effectiveness and environmental efficiency.

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.

Valmet solutions improve production efficiency and pulp quality

Valmet’s advanced measurements and recovery boiler camera improved the production efficiency and pulp quality of Sichuan Vanov New Material Co., Ltd in China.

Cameras enable continuous monthly savings in fuel in lime kiln

North American pulp mill uses two Valmet cameras to better monitor the grate where lime is discharged so that operations can shut the access door eliminating the ambient temperature being pulled in at that location.