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Cartones Ponderosa strengthens its competitive advantage

Mexico’s leading producer of folding boxboard invested in curtain coating and air impingement drying technology to improve board quality, lower costs and boost productivity.

Innovative moisturizer application provides immediate benefits

The Iggesund Workington board mill in the UK has successfully applied a Valmet IQ Moisturizer in board production to achieve higher production rates especially with higher grammage products.

Steam profiler generates energy savings at Smurfit Kappa Nettingsdorf

Smurfit Kappa Nettingsdorf is one of the leading producers for Kraftliner in Europe. Their PM6 has a capacity of up to 450,000 ton/year. Energy efficiency is a key element in their management system in order to improve operational costs and reduced environmental impact. An existing steambox was found to work inefficient, and after careful evaluation of the current process parameters and assessment of improvement potential, Nettingsdorf decided to replace this steambox by state of the art Valmet IQ Steam Profiler. Target was to achieve a significant decrease in specific steam consumption for the paper machine.

Valmet MAP shows the route to better refiner management

The Pankaboard mill, located in Lieksa, Eastern Finland, is a world leader in the production of high thickness folding boxboards and uncoated cartonboards for packaging, various graphical and industrial applications and food service products. Continuous product development and new innovations employed by the mill have ensured that the products from their two distinctly different board machines, BM2 and BM3, always fulfill specific customer needs. As part of this philosophy, Pankaboard recently installed a Valmet Pulp Analyzer (Valmet MAP) to help provide better refiner control of the multiple furnishes to the board machines.

Energy savings with OptiDry Coat air dryers at Hansol Daejeon PM 32

Hansol's decision to rebuild their FBB producing board machine at Hansol mill with OptiDry Coat air dryers have resulted in energy savings of up to 45%. They've also seen improvements on their board quality; printability is good and visual appearance has improved. Furthermore, runnability has improved and the “folding” effect reduced.

24% energy savings with new OptiFiner Pro refiner at Mondi Neusiedler

Mondi Neusiedler Mill in Austria had a clear target in energy consumption reduction. They saw the potential for energy savings and promptly commenced on a project to replace existing short fiber refiners with just one OptiFiner Pro refiner.

Succeful start-up of new Valmet tissue line at Baoding Yusen Liaoning Mill

On October 18, 2020, a Valmet Intelli-tissue® EcoEc Premium (TM2) tissue machine delivered from Valmet to Baoding Yusen Health Supplies Co., LTD was successfully started up in Taian Base of Liaoning Province.

Klabin PM27: Rewriting the textbook with Eukaliner®

Klabin’s Puma II project in Brazil is making history with new standards for kraftliner production. Their new PM 27 board machine has already achieved impressive results producing Eukaliner® – the world’s first kraftliner using 100 percent eucalyptus.

Valmet provides the big Q in Quality

BillerudKorsnäs in Pietarsaari produces world-leading kraft and sack paper. Extensive knowledge of raw material fiber properties is essential to meet the high quality that customers expect. To this end, the mill decided to purchase the Valmet Fiber Furnish Analyzer (Valmet MAP Q).

Improved HC press control with Valmet High Solids Measurement

BillerudKorsnäs Karlsborg’ mill wanted to measure pulp consistency before high consistency refining, after the HC presses, so they acquired two Valmet High Solids Measurements (Valmet HS) installed in stock preparation before the board machine.