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Keeping pace with growth in renewable fuels

The renewable share of the total energy use is predicted to rise up to 15% by 2040. Automation in renewable fuel production should be ...

The Advantage DCT concept crosses borders

Last year Valmet’s tissue business passed several important milestones; tissue machine number 200 was sold to China. A total of 50 Advantage DCT tissue lines have been sold worldwide since the launch in 2005, and seven customers have bought two or more machines.

Valmet’s technology helps to reduce emissions in UK

Valmet handed over a new biomass boiler plant and flue gas treatment for RWE Innogy UK’s Markinch combined heat and power plant (CHP). The new plant helps Tullis Russell paper mill reduce its fossil fuel emissions and significantly contributes to Scotland’s ambitious renewable energy targets.

Measurement forms the basis for energy efficiency

The amount of energy used to manufacture the same paper grade may vary between mills by as much as 30%. This can amount to a difference of EUR 2.5 million in the annual electricity bill. Saving energy is a sensible way of lowering production costs while protecting the environment.

6,600 kilometers from Finland to India

Re-locating an entire pulp production line from one corner of the world to another is a sizeable venture. Ballarpur Industries proved that it can be done successfully by combining the right resources.

OptiConcept M –Setting new standards

Economy of total investment, personnel safety, easy machine usability and reduction of environmental load were the key targets guiding the development work of a group of experts responsible for new paper and board making concept, OptiConcept M.

Northern efficiency

PM 5 in Stora Enso's Veitsiluoto mill in Kemi, northern Finland, is able to produce more than 700 tonnes of LWC paper per day. In 2011, the company decided to invest in the line's runnability and efficiency. As a result, the number of production breaks and the amount of broke were significantly decreased.

Results through performance agreements

Valmet’s performance agreement is a mill-wide development program targeted at perfecting the customer’s production line. Following this systematic development approach, Valmet improves and maintains the customer’s competitiveness.

Increased efficiency through maintenance

Faced with tough competition, papermakers are seeking maximum profitability and optimum production efficiency in their operations. One success factor is a reliable predictive maintenance culture. Whatever the maintenance need or strategy is, Valmet provides optimal maintenance solutions and services for it.

Highest electrical efficiency from waste: Lahti Energia, Lahti Finland

Lahti Energy’s Kymijärvi II power plant, the world’s first eco-gas fueled power plant, was inaugurated in 2012. The power plant runs on SRF that is gasified, cooled and cleaned before combustion and produces 50 MW of electricity and 90 MW of district heat for the city of Lahti in Finland.