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Consistent pulp quality optimizes the process
Cleaner pulp, higher, more consistent quality and reduced maintenance. These are some of the results since SCA’s liner mill in Obbola brought its new cooking plant into operation in 2015.
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CMPC Guaíba pulp mill becomes totally odorless
CMPC Riograndense Ltda’s Guaíba pulp mill in Brazil no longer emits any hazardous or malodorous gases into the environment. They are efficiently controlled and destroyed by Valmet’s non-condensable gas (NCG) treatment system – probably the most comprehensive one in the world.
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Creating a valuable product from hazardous side streams
Producing sulfuric acid from a pulp mill’s non-condensable gases (NCG) is a true win-win-win solution. An innovation developed by Valmet improves the chemical balance of mills, generates cost savings, and reduces environmental impact.
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Valmet Refiner Segments create 6 GWh in energy savings a year
Energy cost is the major issue for producing mechanical pulp. Valmet Refiner Segments latest solutions lowers the energy consumption in the PGW process remarkably and thus creates major savings for the customers.
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2016 Arne Asplund Mechanical Pulping Award
Regarded as the "Nobel Prize" in the field of mechanical pulping, the Arne Asplund Mechanical Pulping Award was established in 1985 to commemorate Dr. Asplund’s contribution to the pulp and paper industry worldwide.
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Save energy with diamonds
Galileo is a groundbreaking new grinding segment concept that cuts production and energy costs in producing mechanical pulp.
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ShiveClean at APP leads to excellent refiner performance
When Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) decided to install a new BCTMP (bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp) line at its Guangxi Jingui pulp and paper mill, it turned to Valmet. Since its start-up in mid-2013, the capacity of the line’s refiners and the lifetimes of their segments have reached remarkably high levels, and their energy consumption has been low
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Results from SCA Ortviken, Sweden
The objectives with the installation of the Valmet Process Optimizer at SCA Ortviken were less variations in pulp quality, increase throughput, reduced energy consumption and gaining the possibility of controlling/optimizing long fiber and shive content simultaneously.
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Valmet BCTMP line proves success at Guangxi Jingui Pulp & Paper
The proven success of the bleached chemi-thermo-mechanical pulp (BCTMP) production line of Guangxi Jingui Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd convinced APP to invest in another Valmet BCTMP line for their mill in Xiaogang, Ningbo.
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Two Valmet employees among the ten most inventive women in Sweden
Elin Engqvist (Application Engineer, Tissue Application) and Maria Vennerström (Manager, Bleaching and Analysis) are named on a list* of the ten most inventive women in Sweden published by the Swedish Patent Office. Valmet is very proud to have two employees on this list and the patent department has conducted an interview with Elin and Maria to find out what makes a good inventor.
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