Pulp drying and baling

Move forward with world record technology

Valmet offers best available technology for efficient and economic pulp drying and baling. Our wide and flexible technology offering facilitates several pulp grades with end products like dissolving, fluff and market pulp. With efficient solutions we offer you the lowest steam and energy consumption on the market. The high availability and high speed of our reliable equipment means more production.

Leader in speciality pulp grades, roll finishing and dissolving

Supplier of the biggest machines in the world

Capacities from 500 to 4300 t/d

Lowest steam and energy consumption

Steam consumption: 800 kg/Adt

Energy consumption: 100 kW/Adt

Highest cutter availability and high speed baling line

High speed: 300 bales/h

Our professionals have built the largest pulp dryers in the world and applied them successfully in three different continents. Valmet drying machines hold world record capacities with gap former and fourdrinier technologies, with single machines daily productions topping over 4300 tons.

An easy-to-run and high capacity technology concept gives flexibility to operate different wood species and an advantageous overall economy.

Improve your performance together with Valmet.

Optimized and stable operation with advanced bale weight control

By utilizing the data collected from the scale by the Bale press, optimized operation can be achieved. The data is fed back in the process, adjusting settings to improve performance, step by step all the way back to the headbox. With this, all bales are kept with the same width, even during recirculation of grades change. The data is also used to adjust the profile to keep all bales with the same weight, compensating moisture differences caused by felts or other process variations.

Pulp drying automation in CMPC Guaiba II, Brazil, is a part of Valmet's mill-wide system.

Continous success by close collaboration and the right combination of services for every stage of the lifecycle

To maintain the competitiveness of your baling processes and to develop them throughout the lifecycle. We provide a wide range of solutions for upgrade and improve your existing baling equipment, processes and machinery. The scope is always based on your specific needs and the solutions are tailored to maximize the performance of your specific installation.

Our services team support and guide you in finding cost effcient solutions to get the most out of your baling processes and equipment. We offer various forms of services and advanced diagnostics through Valmet Baling Quality System to ensure that you always maintain high availability and capacity of your baling line.

A Service Agreement offers close collaboration to reach agreed targets, the scope is always tailored to your needs to ensure reliability, quality and increased machine equipment, electrical components and automation systems lifetime.

Process upgrades for baling lines

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BioCMPC project - A major upgrade of Guaíba mill’s line 2

CMPC acquired the Guaíba mill, located in southern Brazil in the Rio Grande do Sul state, in December 2009. The first line was originally built in 1972, and a second production line, Guaíba 2, started up in 2015. In 2021, CMPC decided to significantly invest in upgrading their operations.

Pulping and biorefinery piloting from lab tests to industrial-scale production

Pulping and biorefinery companies can benefit from utilizing Valmet’s piloting capabilities, ranging from comprehensive laboratory-scale to industrial-scale trials, to test new raw materials or pulping and biomass pretreatment processes, for example.

One new milestone with textile pulp

LD Celulose’s pulp drying machine ran for over 270 days without any web breaks. This achievement marks a new milestone in 2023 for textile pulp. Since its start-up, the machine has demonstrated a very stable runnability.

Valmet strengthens its roll services in the EMEA region

There’s good news for all EMEA region pulp and papermakers with small and medium-sized pulp drying, paper, board or tissue machines. Valmet’s improved full-scope roll technology and services offering are now more accessible and more cost-effective for all machine sizes and roll types.

SCA Ortviken pulp mill - CTMP project

The demand for newsprint and magazine paper in the world has decreased and in order to adapt to this change, SCA decided to shut down the production of newsprint and LWC at the Ortviken mill in Sweden and focus on producing CTMP pulp instead.

New era of efficiency and environmental performance

ARAUCO’s historic MAPA project faced several challenges but was ultimately a success. The energy efficient technologies, a high-power recovery boiler and a biomass boiler enable ARAUCO’s carbon neutrality and the delivery of renewable energy to the national electrical grid.

Valmet-delivered paper machine conversion started up at Mishima mill in Japan

Valmet-delivered paper machine conversion to fluff pulp drying line started up at Daio Paper Corporation’s Mishima mill in Japan.

Valmet Fiber Flash Dryer – A flexible and energy-efficient new concept

The demand for CTMP lines in recent years has driven Valmet to further develop its flash drying technology. The result is a flexible and energy-efficient system that can be scaled to the optimal size, using the best heat source at each pulp mill.

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