Tissue Making Days
The 21st edition of the Tissue Making Days was held on May 29 - 31, 2024. After being on tour in 2022, the top-tier conference returned to its home ground, Karlstad, Sweden. Since 1983 we have shared ideas, technologies and the current market trends from all over the world.
Let's change the game in tissue!
We are living in an ever changing world which also has an impact on the tissue industry. Climate change, AI and new technologies, just to mention a few, are things we all need to relate to in one way or another. The program included technology highlights and new innovations from tissue making, converting, automation and services.
Speakers
During this seminar, the futurist and author Amelia Kallman will enlighten us about how AI can be a tool for the industry, while Bernard Lombard from Cepi will raise the topic of regulations and taxation impacting the tissue business. Rickard Fornell from RISE institute highlights how to move from environmental footprint to handprint. During the event Valmet experts will also enter the stage together with invited customers.
Deep dive into topics of your interest and visit the pilot machine
On the second day the guests had the opportunity to dive deeper into the topics in a set of breakout sessions where they discussed with our experts and had their questions answered.
For the first time ever we opened up the Tissue Technology Center exclusively for our guests to watch the pilot machine running in Through Air Drying mode.
Main program, May 30 - 31
Below you can find the main program of the conference.
| Day 1 | |
| The future of AI: Innovation, Business and Beyond | Amelia Kallman, Futurist, Speaker and Author |
| Changing the game in tissue - from fiber to finished product |
Gianfranco Agnusdei, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Tissue Converting BU |
| The vision of an integrated, sustainable, and more autonomous paper mill has become a reality |
Jonas Johansson, Head of Tissue Industrial Internet |
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Move your performance sustainably forward with Valmet’s automation solutions for tissue |
Mikko Talonen, Director, Quality Control and Machine Vision Systems |
| Soft, smooth and simple - next generation of efficient dry-end |
Viktor Bergström, Concept Manager Dry Crepe Tissue |
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Automated manufacturing as the ultimate enabling factor to increase safety, minimize downtime and deliver consistent end-product quality |
Jhon Sebastian Niňo Cabezas, Sales Manager, Rolls and Fold technology |
| Valmet MTC technology pushes the boundaries of Multifold | Giovacchino Giurlani, Managing Director, Tissue Converting BU |
| Boosting performance and competitiveness with benchmarking | Kenneth Appel, Senior Sales Manager, Life cycle service |
| Energy equation for the future - optimize your drying | Arvid Johansson, Director Tissue Mills Technology |
| Development of environmental friendly tissue making together with reliable partner |
Maciej Ossowski, Manager Applications, Small |
| The key to resource efficient premium and ultra-premium production | Kai Zhang, Sales Director Tissue Mills |
| Electromagnetic induction: a disruptive application for packaging sealing | Nicolò Squarzoni, Product Manager, Packaging and Digital Portfolio |
| Day 2 | |
| Are we ready for 2030 and 2050? | Bernhard Lombard, Trade and Industrial Policy Director, CEPI |
| Virtual mill tour | |
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From footprint to handprint – a systems perspective on value creation in the tissue industry |
Rickard Fornell, Senior Researcher industrial transition and system |
Break out sessions include the following topics:
- From fiber to finished product
- Tissue Paper Quality
- Future trends in finished products
- How to boost performance and competitiveness - deep dive
- Low media and high efficiency as a driver for IntelliTissue concept
- Production and Pilot center tour
- Dry crepe tissue/ IntelliTissue
- From footprint to hand print - deep dive
- Future trends in packaging
- Valmet DNA automation system – solid foundation for tissue mill of the future
- Engagement, Professionalism and Committment - is that the key for a successful project?
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