Pulp drying and baling

Move forward with world record technology

Valmet offers best available technology for efficient and economic pulp drying and baling. Our wide and flexible technology offering facilitates several pulp grades with end products like dissolving, fluff and market pulp. With efficient solutions we offer you the lowest steam and energy consumption on the market. The high availability and high speed of our reliable equipment means more production.

Leader in speciality pulp grades, roll finishing and dissolving

Supplier of the biggest machines in the world

Capacities from 500 to 4300 t/d

Lowest steam and energy consumption

Steam consumption: 800 kg/Adt

Energy consumption: 100 kW/Adt

Highest cutter availability and high speed baling line

High speed: 300 bales/h

Our professionals have built the largest pulp dryers in the world and applied them successfully in three different continents. Valmet drying machines hold world record capacities with gap former and fourdrinier technologies, with single machines daily productions topping over 4300 tons.

An easy-to-run and high capacity technology concept gives flexibility to operate different wood species and an advantageous overall economy.

Improve your performance together with Valmet.

Optimized and stable operation with advanced bale weight control

By utilizing the data collected from the scale by the Bale press, optimized operation can be achieved. The data is fed back in the process, adjusting settings to improve performance, step by step all the way back to the headbox. With this, all bales are kept with the same width, even during recirculation of grades change. The data is also used to adjust the profile to keep all bales with the same weight, compensating moisture differences caused by felts or other process variations.

Pulp drying automation in CMPC Guaiba II, Brazil, is a part of Valmet's mill-wide system.

Our solutions

Bleached stock screening

Wet end

Airborne dryer

Cutter

Fiber flash dryer

Baling

Process upgrades for baling

Recent articles

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Södra Cell Värö goes big – gets ready to deliver jumbo bales with a baling line upgrade delivered by Valmet

Södra Cell Värö and Valmet have been cooperating for decades. One of the latest successful joint projects was a baling line upgrade, which enabled Värö mill to start delivering jumbo bales to its customers. With a production capacity of 780,000 tons per year, Södra Cell’s Värö mill is one of the largest and most modern softwood pulp mills in the world. Located in western Sweden, it also serves as an important supplier of green energy, generating 1.6 TWh annually.

LD Celulose - New dissolving pulp mill

LD Celulose S.A., a joint venture of Lenzing and Duratex for a new 500,000 t/year dissolving pulp mill in Minas Gerais state, Brazil.

Valmet delivers a complete pulp mill to Arauco in Brazil

Arauco is building a complete pulp mill in Inocência, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil and has selected Valmet as the main supplier for the project.

BioCMPC project - A major upgrade of Guaíba mill’s line 2

CMPC acquired the Guaíba mill, located in southern Brazil in the Rio Grande do Sul state, in December 2009. The first line was originally built in 1972, and a second production line, Guaíba 2, started up in 2015. In 2021, CMPC decided to significantly invest in upgrading their operations.

Pulping and biorefinery piloting from lab tests to industrial-scale production

Pulping and biorefinery companies can benefit from utilizing Valmet’s piloting capabilities, ranging from comprehensive laboratory-scale to industrial-scale trials, to test new raw materials or pulping and biomass pretreatment processes, for example.

One new milestone with textile pulp

LD Celulose’s pulp drying machine ran for over 270 days without any web breaks. This achievement marks a new milestone in 2023 for textile pulp. Since its start-up, the machine has demonstrated a very stable runnability.

Valmet strengthens its roll services in the EMEA region

There’s good news for all EMEA region pulp and papermakers with small and medium-sized pulp drying, paper, board or tissue machines. Valmet’s improved full-scope roll technology and services offering are now more accessible and more cost-effective for all machine sizes and roll types.

SCA Ortviken pulp mill - CTMP project

The demand for newsprint and magazine paper in the world has decreased and in order to adapt to this change, SCA decided to shut down the production of newsprint and LWC at the Ortviken mill in Sweden and focus on producing CTMP pulp instead.

Our expertise is at your service

We at Valmet are committed to moving our customers performance forward and ensure smooth, disruption-free operation, supporting you all the way.