Search results

From downtime challenges to reliable flow with Flowrox hose pumps

How do you eliminate recurring downtime in chemical production? A leading North American manufacturer of water treatment chemicals achieved reliable flow, lower maintenance requirements, and longer hose life by optimizing its process with Flowrox™ peristaltic hose pumps. Through close collaboration and system-level improvements, the plant transformed a persistent reliability challenge into a long-term operational success.

Valmet's stakeholder survey

The feedback received through a stakeholder survey indicates that Valmet’s main stakeholders confirm our current view on what’s important with regard to the company’s sustainability performance. The most important topics concern safety, sustainable solutions, ethical behavior and employee wellbeing.

Making quality happen

“We make it happen,” says Krisztina Kuusisto, VP, Operational Excellence at Valmet’s Paper business line. She explains how quality is defined at Valmet, and how we ensure it’s integrated in each phase of our value chain.

Helping out a children's home in South Africa

Valmet’s team in South Africa decided to look at its local community, see what is being done close to them, and then give their support.

Wet end rebuild for Khanna Paper in India

The rebuild aims to improve end product quality, increase production and add new grades to product portfolio. CEO Varun Jain tells in video the reasoning behind the investment.

Metsä Board Simpele: A 10-year journey as an industry benchmark

The revolutionary metal belt calendering technology has opened up doors to success for Metsä Board Simpele mill. It has converted the mill into a benchmark in the folding boxboard industry.

Improving waste water treatment plant operation

Recently a global producer of polymer emulsion chemicals ordered a Valmet LS measurement to enhance the operation of their sludge handling at the waste water treatment plant. Reliable measurement systems are required to keep the solid content to the municipal waste water plant within approved limits.

WavStar has the “Wow!” factor in Hallsta

“The poor capacity of our disc filters was causing us major problems and we decided to give Valmet’s WavStar filter bags a try. Now that we’ve evaluated the results after the filters have been running for more than two years, we can see the benefits, the major one being in the increased capacity," says Patrik Jansson of Holmen.

Valmet’s CO2 reduction targets recognized for supporting UN climate change agenda in Paris

“We continuously work to make improvements which is seen in the favorable trend in our environmental KPIs: in 2014 we decreased our energy consumption by 9% and CO2 emissions by 16%,” says Victoria Larsson, Valmet’s Global HSE Manager

Refining rebuild at Savon Sellu

“We believe that the unique refining principle of the OptiFiner Pro gives us an advantage. As a bonus, we use 30% less energy while achieving the same freeness values as before", tells Tapio Laukkanen about the results of a refining rebuild at Savon Sellu.