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Lumpbreaker felting equipment results in “grand slam” for mill performance

Revamping a pulp drying line for improved performance and higher tonnage—discover how a Southeastern U.S. pulp mill optimized its operations.

Pulp Drying Pilot Plant

At Valmet’s Fiber Technology Center in Inkeroinen, Finland, pulp drying development moves far beyond theory. The Pulp Drying Pilot Plant is a global benchmark for testing, improving, and developing pulp drying processes in real production like conditions. With a complete wet end, in-house laboratory, and Valmet experts on site, concepts are validated and turned into measurable results.

World's only open test bed for odorless lignin inaugurated in Sweden

On October 16,2025, RISE's new demonstration plant for odourless lignin was inaugurated at LignoCity in Bäckhammar. It is the world's only open testing infrastructure with flexible production of tailor-made lignin grades on an industrial scale.

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.

Liansheng Pulp and Paper gives Valmet’s BCTMP lines perfect scores

Smooth startups, low energy costs and very clean, high-bulk pulp are greatly appreciated by the mill.