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Forward with more water-efficient paper mills

At Valmet, we continuously enhance environmental efficiency in our own operations and together with our suppliers. Our process technology, automation and services are designed to improve raw material, energy, water and chemical efficiency. Just recently, our Board and Paper Mills business unit’s R&D team grew with a new expert, who focuses especially on water. Join us for an interview with Marina Kalliola to find out what Valmet has on its water reduction agenda.

Beyond Circularity: SEEDForest COACH explores tomorrow’s intelligent industrial work

Valmet is participating in SEEDForest’s COACH project that aims to create steps towards human-centered, technologically enabled intelligent industrial work of the future.

Beyond Circularity on tour 2024: Forward with synergy

As summer turned to fall, it was time for our annual Beyond Circularity ecosystem event. This year, we went on a virtual tour. Around 300 participants joined in the event and received updates on the program’s status in October.

Valmet joins a research project to develop hydrogen underground storage

Valmet is joining forces with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), and 15 industrial partners in a pioneering research project called Hydrogen UnderGround (HUG). The project is also a part of Valmet’s Beyond Circularity R&D program and ecosystem.

Conversion projects open the door to new opportunities

Rather than permanently idling a paper machine, why not move into a growing market such as packaging?

Reeling terminology and how to achieve proper roll structure

Proper roll structure requires carefully controlled winding, to enable the resulting parent reel to be stored and unwound in downstream processes in a trouble-free manner. This article presents a glossary of terms and description of roll structure.

Stainless steel care, cleaning, surface prep and passivating

Stainless steel is corrosion resistant and maintains a film of chrome oxide over its surface. Under normal conditions this film is self-healing.

Reel backlash due to worn parts causes sheet breaks, case study

Sheet breaks on PM1 are costing thousands of dollars. Valmet emergency service discovers backlash and further analysis provides temporary and long-term fixes.

Safety, operation and maintenance of water jet tail cutter

Beloit's original Water Jet Tail Clip was a hardworking tail cutter and its operation, maintenance and safety considerations are reviewed in this article.

Reducing coater variability with a coater beam replacement

Many existing coating station blade beams experience MD and CD coat weight variability due to a variety of factors. Replacing the blade beam with a Valmet OptiCoat beam reduces variability and improves end product quality.