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Sustainable board making at Anhui Shanying

Sustainable board making at Anhui Shanying.

Targeting 22% increase in capacity

Pondercel’s PM 1 in Mexico was rebuilt in 2011. The modifications in forming, press and dryer sections, as well as sizer, reel, and winder aimed to increase capacity, reduce production costs and helped to serve their customers better.

OptiConcept M board making line at Pratt Industries in the USA

Pratt's new containerboard production line, PM 16, successfully came on stream in 2015. This is Valmet's first OptiConcept M installation in North America.

The 3rd life of a paper machine at Blue Paper after grade conversion

In big grade conversion rebuilds, customers always want to be on the safe side as far as risks are concerned. Because the designed forming section was first of its kind, the prototype was tested at the Paper Technology Center in Jyväskylä. With the promising results of the pilot tests, Blue Paper was willing to implement the rebuild with Valmet.

Liansheng Paper PM5 containerboard machine in China

Valmet's delivery to Liansheng Paper's Longhai site in Fujian province in China included a complete boardmaking line. The two-layer web can be produced with only one headbox providing excellent profiles due to a unique dilution system and good formation due to new type of hydraulics.

Superior quality paper after rebuild - Sappi Gratkorn PM 11

Sappi's Gratkorn mill rebuilt their PM11 to improve the printing paper quality. The rebuild concept was optimized for improved formation and printability and reduced two-sidedness and validated in the series of pilot trials at Valmet facilities.

Valmet WEM prevents chemical overdoses at Drewsen

When faced with a challenge of high number of web breaks, Drewsen Spezialpapiere GmbH & Co decided to install a Valmet Wet End Analyzer (Valmet WEM) with savings of approximately €100,000.

Stora Enso Imatra Mills Tainionkoski BM 5 safety upgrade

Safety was the main driving force behind modernizing the Stora Enso Imatra Mills Tainionkoski board machine 5 (BM 5). Valmet delivered safer winder, transfer rails from reel to winder, and some measurements and controls for the board machine because the roll handling equipment from reel to storage needed a major safety improvement.

Cartiere Ermolli: New refiner replaced two old, and saved energy up to 20%

Cartiere Ermolli, produces specialty grades in Italy for flexible packaging like food wrapping papers. When creating specialty papers, doing refining right is fundamental. Mechanical properties of the fiber cannot be destroyed so the amount and the quality of the refining must be right, without any harmful cutting effects. When they needed increase in capacity and end product quality, the solution was OptiFiner Pro refiner.

One cleaning shutdown eliminated every 6 weeks at Stora Enso’s Skoghall mill

Stora Enso’s Skoghall mill decided to renew their old smoothing press cleaning device and improve the roll cover durability of their BM 8.