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Improved production efficiency in ITC Bhadrachalam BM7

ITC team targets to improve the headbox performance on its board machine BM7, which is 3,570-mm-wide (wire), produces folding boxboard with the design speed at 350m/min.

Energy savings and improved runnability – dryer fabric service agreement with Siam Kraft

Valmet and Siam Kraft Industry Co., Ltd.'s PM16 at the Ban Pong mill in Thailand have a service agreement for dryer fabrics. The two-year contract, covering 2022 to 2024 ensures energy savings and enhanced runnability of the machine's dryer section.

A long history of guaranteed pulp quality online with Valmet DCD

Metsä Fibre personnel have actively collaborated with Valmet Dirt Count Analyzer (Valmet DCD) design team and the latest result is a third generation device soon to be delivered to Metsä Fibre mills in Joutseno and Rauma.

Shouguang Meilun Paper PM 6 - Cost-effective investment helps to meet market demand for high-quality fine paper

The 11.15-meter wide paper machine is the world’s largest coated fine paper line, producing around 800,000 tonnes of coated woodfree paper annually. Shouguang Meilun Paper wanted to utilize new technology to further solidify its market leadership position, and selected Valmet as a major supplier for this challenging project.

Boosting production capacity of the single baling line in Estonian Cell

Estonian Cell, the only European pulp mill sourcing products solely from aspen, wanted to boost the capacity of its single baling line with a new slab press and improve availability in continuous shift production.

Burgo Ardennes stabilizes bleaching process

Optimization smooths out bleach plant operation and demonstrates an 8.7% saving in bleaching chemicals with improved brightness stability in the Burgo Ardennes mill in Belgium.

Higher consistency means higher efficiency

Sappi Saiccor's mill in South Africa installed a Twin Blade model of Valmet Microwave Consistency Measurement to achieve higher consistencies for higher efficiency and lower solids losses.

Improving recovery boiler safety

A North American pulp mill was looking to improve the operations and safety of their recovery boiler. They invested in a Valmet Furnace Imaging System, IR (Portable Mid-IR mobile inspection camera) with off-axis lens to safely manage the firing rate of their boiler.

Optimizing the continuous cooking digesters at Stora Enso Imatra Mills

Stora Enso decided to build a new short-fiber pulp line (line 3) for birch cooking, and later to modernize and convert the existing pulp line 2 to long-fiber. Thus, there was a need to optimize the cooking process.

Major mill upgrade at Södra Cell Värö in Sweden

The expanded mill is scheduled to start up in the autumn of 2016 and involves increasing the current production capacity of 425,000 tonnes to 700,000 tonnes of pulp per year. This will make the mill one of the biggest in the world in terms of softwood sulphate pulp production.