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Pioneering sustainable wood-based Spinnova® fiber production

Spinnova’s mission is to transform the global textile production and raw material base to make it more sustainable. To make this happen Spinnova has joined forces with Suzano through their Woodspin project, which aims to produce sustainable textile fibers from wood without using harmful chemicals.

Valmet to equip Canan in Turkey with a new MG Machine

Valmet has signed a significant contract with Canan Kağıt Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ in Turkey to deliver a new line for MG (Machine Glazed) paper production. This ambitious project features an extensive automation package and services, with the start-up scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2025.

Tissue as soft as silk

Forestal y Papelera Concepcion in Chile selected Valmet’s Advantage NTT technology because of its flexibility and ability to deliver premium tissue paper with low energy consumption.

Full focus on Tissue at Fadereco

Fadereco in Algeria selected Valmets Reelite T to be able to meet their customers’ demand and avoid bottlenecks in their production. They wanted to invest in a rewinder dedicated to the converters with small reels and that was reliable and easy to operate. Valmet’s Reelite T turned out to be what they were aiming for.

Valmet investing in the future

Valmet upgrades its pilot machines in 2018 to support paper, board and tissue customers in moving their performance forward. The upgrades increase the flexibility of the pilot trial possibilities even more.

Tissue seminar Abu Dhabi

In Mid-April Valmet organized a tissue technology seminar in Abu Dhabi to celebrate 40 years of presence in Middle East

From local fiber resources to sustainable paper products

In many parts of the world, we see innovative efforts in the search to produce paper more sustainably. The development is coming on strong as tissue producers are exploring if regional and local fiber resources might be an opportunity for them.

Liansheng collaborates with Valmet to expand from industrial to tissue paper production

Liansheng Pulp and Paper, although being a relatively new player on the market, is not afraid of challenges. With a dedicated mind, driven by innovation, through product diversification and high-end product development, the paper producer is now successfully expanding from industrial paper, venturing into the world of tissue paper.

Machine rebuild in Turkey

Hayat Kimya A.S., part of the Turkey-based Hayat Group, is today the largest tissue manufacturer for Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe with a production capacity of 420,000 tons per year. The company first made the decision to enter the tissue business in 2004, and their first tissue machine – TM1 – went into operation in 2006 at a mill in Izmit, Turkey.

What does a sustainable business mean?

Everyone is talking about sustainability - suppliers, producers, authorities, environmental agencies etc. But what does sustainability really mean? Does it mean the same to all of us? Often it is used synonymously with words like “green”. But “green” does not say anything about a product or process etc. being sustainable or not.