Strategy

MISSION:

Valmet’s mission is to create sustainable results by converting renewable resources and making industrial processes reliable and efficient.

Creating sustainable results:

We strive to make a positive, lasting impact on the world by generating outcomes that are beneficial not only for today but also for the future. Our solutions help customers, as well as Valmet, perform responsibly and in a financially sustainable manner.

Converting renewable resources:

With Valmet’s unique offering, our customers can refine renewable raw materials into sustainable products and energy. In this way, we help increase the utilization of renewable resources and promote circularity.

Making industrial processes reliable and efficient:

Our leading technologies and reliable service approach ensure that customers’ production processes run smoothly and safely without interruptions. We enable the customers to improve their environmental performance, product quality and productivity over the lifecycle with minimal wasted resources. This approach not only lowers costs but also minimizes environmental impact.

STRATEGY:

Valmet develops and supplies competitive and reliable process technologies, services and automation to the pulp, paper and energy industries. With our automation business, consisting of automation systems and flow control solutions, we serve a wide base of global process industries.  We are committed to moving our customers’ performance forward with our unique offering and way to serve.

MUST WINS:

1) Customer excellence

- Grow in Services, Automation Systems, Flow Control and Tissue Converting
- Strengthen capital business market share
- Improve sales management and customer experience to drive growth and gross margin

2) Leader in technology and innovation

- Improve product cost competitiveness and performance
- Develop new products and technologies to create new revenue and enable customers' carbon neutral operations  

3) Excellence in processes

- Develop project and agreement management, and delivery to improve gross margin
- Implement unified processes through “Leap Forward”
- Improve quality performance 
- Continue HSE improvement
- Improve net working capital and increase flexibility, savings and sustainability in operations and supply chain

4) Winning team

- Boost high performance and engagement
- Continue global capability development

Our Sustainability Agenda is an integral part of our strategy and Must Wins.

VISION:

To become the global champion in serving our customers and in moving the industries forward.

Valmet defines Must-Win implementation objectives for each year. For more information on our progress in strategy implementation, please see Annual Review 2023.