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Sustainable business is a joint commitment

Developing sustainable solutions to help tissue producers meet their environmental and financial targets is a never-ending process. Valmet’s tissue mill technology gives flexibility and helps to adopt a circular resource flow between the mill and society reducing the environmental footprint of the mill significantly.

Toward plastic-free packaging

Valmet Bio Pack plus is an add-on solution for paper machines that enables packaging manufacturers to replace polyethylene packaging materials with simple kraft paper, helping them produce more sustainable, plastic-free products.

Topping-out ceremony at HOFOR’s power plant

An important milestone was achieved at HOFOR’s Amagerværket power plant construction site in Copenhagen, Denmark, when the topping-out ceremony was organized.

Meeting tightened emission limits in record time at CIECH Soda Polska S. A.

Time definitely flew when Valmet carried out a wet flue gas desulfurization project in just 24 months at CIECH Soda Polska’s Inowroclaw combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Poland.

Sappi Kirkniemi taps into a new fuel opportunity

A side stream from oil refineries - asphaltene - is now a cost-effective fuel at the power plant at the Sappi Kirkniemi mill in Finland. The high fuel flexibility of Valmet CFB Boiler plays a key role in this outstanding example of a circular economy.

Winning with outsourcing

Uni Viridas delivers fuel and sells heat and electricity from their biomass power plant in Babina Greda, Croatia. Everything else is looked after by Valmet. This successful cooperation was continued with the operation and maintenance contract’s extension in early 2019.

BS Energy taking steps towards zero coal

To decrease their carbon footprint, many energy producers are going green with Valmet’s sustainable biomass-fired plants. One of the companies taking steps towards zero coal with Valmet’s technology is BS Energy in Braunschweig, Germany. It supplies energy to the city of approximately 250,000 inhabitants and owns the local distribution networks.

Ørsted to go coal-free by 2023

Climate change, carbon neutrality and low-emission energy production are on top of all environmentally-conscious energy producers’ agenda. Key to this lies in phasing out coal as a fuel and replacing it with biofuels.

Inauguration of Oulun Energia's Laanila biopower plant

January 28, 2021, marked the inauguration day of Oulun Energia’s new Laanila biopower plant in Oulu, Finland. Featuring the latest technology, the plant enables the company to meet growing energy demand, support its goal toward carbon neutrality by 2035 and promote a circular economy. The core of the plant – Valmet CFB Boiler – produces steam efficiently and sustainably as well as electricity and heat through cogeneration.

Converting waste streams into clean energy

The circular economy is about resource efficiency. Materials that cannot be used as raw materials for new products are converted into energy.