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Kotkamills. “There will be even more reason for an award when our board replaces the boards containing fluorochemicals, which are still in use in some greaseproof packaging and are potentially causing a health hazard.” Hämäläinen continues that building this type of board machine was also an innovation: “It was challenging to make the plan work. The way that the proven technology and chemicals merged together to make these novel board grades was extremely innovative.” Kuni further describes the
Timo Räisänen, Process Engineer, and Teemu Nikkonen, Production Manager of Kotkamills, discussing the Flying Eagle Project
in large projects like this. The success of a project depends on how you deal with these incidents. Valmet has been good at this, and we’ve received plenty of support when we’ve needed it. We’ve had a good and open relationship with all of the Valmet personnel.” The rebuilt board machine
started up in July 2016, and it barely resembled the previous fine paper machine. The rebuild of the existing machine consisted of a series of small yet remarkable jobs one after another. The speed of the project was breathtaking – taking only 16 months from signing the contract to the start-up of the new board production line after a complete makeover. “From a technology, quality, and product point of view, this project has been a total success,” said Hämäläinen.
A passion for inventing Inventing is about thinking outside the box – or in this case seeing consumer packages, boxes and disposable cups and plates from a completely new point of view.
The end use applications for Kotkamills’ products vary from food use to pharma, cosmetics and confectionery. “Our new dispersion barrier-
coated cup board is a highly innovative product that has been awarded Finland’s New Wood
prize. Sustainability goes hand- in-hand with our products: unlike other cup boards on the market, ours is a fully recyclable, re- pulpable and reusable board,” said chief executive Hämäläinen. However, this is not necessarily the most interesting product from
coating innovations: “The coating section is unusual; nothing like this has ever been built. We can apply up to seven coating layers – even quite thin ones.”
Agile product development with Valmet Two OptiCoat Layer curtain coating stations play an essential role at Kotkamills. “We would not have the barrier board products without curtain coating,” said Hämäläinen.
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Stefan Kuni from Kotkamills checks the board machine during operation January/February 2018
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