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From OCC to board and beyond

Today’s board makers aim for stable production and consistent end-product quality. At the same time, the increasing variety of recycled raw materials in OCC lines makes this more difficult. How can you control the production process despite these variations?

Let’s recycle fabrics!

Valmet produces thousands of tons of paper machine clothing (PMC) and filter fabrics each year. To diminish our environmental impact, we have consistently striven to reduce waste generation and to re-use side streams in fabrics production. Significant steps have also been taken in recycling used paper machine clothing and filter fabrics. 

Smurfit Kappa successfully uses Valmet Bale Tester

At Smurfit Kappa Belgrade mill, the Valmet Bale Tester has enabled optimized production process and improved the paper quality. Valmet Bale Tester is a reliable and real-time measuring system for analyzing the quality of recovered paper.

”Behind the scenes of 1000th Valmet winder”

Valmet delivered the 1000th winder with high-tech features to Palm Aalen PM 5. Even the smallest Valmet winders benefit from this know-how. The winder is connected to reel and automatic transfer rails, thus it can be operated in a safe and effective way while providing high production levels. Valmet will continue to deliver even better winding solutions for you also in the future.

Customer's voice: Valmet’s paper machines’ speed is outstanding at Liansheng Paper’s BM10

Valmet supplied BM10 at Liansheng Paper Longhai site is producing 125–230 g/m2 kraft containerboard with current speed up to 1,150 m/min and a daily capacity reaching 2,200 tonnes. This video gives you a look into the press section, winder and linear reel of the board machine. The customer also talks about the easy maintenance of the BM10 and about the possibilities remote connections have provided for them.

Lightweighting by Valmet – more board with less resources

Valmet offers several technologies that enable the production of lighter board products without compromising quality or visual properties. This is achieved with lightweighting. Learn more about lightweighting by watchin this video.

New life for an entire paper making line at Burgo Verzuolo

Jani Hakola, Project Manager, Burgo, walks you through how the LWC machine at Burgo Verzuolo was completely transformed to produce containerboard; new OCC line, completely updated board machine with automation and services.

Valmet OptiAir - a complete paper machine process ventilation in one package

Drying is the most energy intensive process of the paper machine and it can consume more than 80 % of the total thermal energy. A well-functioning hood, runnability system and heat recovery with air systems play a crucial role in energy efficiency and provide excellent opportunities for reducing costs and increasing the profitability. Valmet’s OptiAir family is designed for optimal and controlled drying conditions and working environment for paper and board machines.

Valmet - OptiDry air dryers for coating

Valmet’s solution for all coating drying applications is the highly efficient OptiDry air dryer family. It includes one- and two-sided dryers with several heating options, as well as contactless web turning drying and web cooling. Hundreds of OptiDry coating air dryer references have shown that it is possible to combine high drying capacity, low energy consumption, minimal maintenance costs and excellent end-product quality – all at the same time.

Valmet OptiFlo Fourdrinier Headbox - Transforming machine performance

The innovative design of Valmet’s OptiFlo Fourdrinier headbox provides the greatest floc breaking ability and flattest profiles available on the market. That ensures that the paper and board products you make is of optimal quality. All the features of the headbox have been carefully designed to increase machine productivity, while keeping daily operating costs in control.