Pulp Paper & Logistics


PROJECTS & CONTRACTS 27


Paper making lines ordered for Sun Paper’s Beihai mill


automation and a recovery boiler is being supplied by Valmet to China’s Sun Paper as part of the greenfield mill project at Beihai announced in July 2019. The PM1 high-capacity paper line


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is being designed to produce high- quality wood-free uncoated paper (WFU) grades. Both the line and the recovery boiler – designed for high power and low environmental impact – are expected to start up in 2021 in a project worth around €140 million. At another Sun Paper site, a stock preparation line is being supplied. To be constructed in two phases


over five years, the new mill at Beihai will eventually have a total pulp and paper capacity of 3.5 million tonnes a year. The project for the line comprises


Illustration of the Valmet Recovery Boiler to be delivered to Sun Paper’s new Beihai pulp and paper mill.


stock preparation to parent roll handling and two winders with related air, chemical and process systems, and start-up packages for spare parts, consumables and paper machine clothing. The stock preparation includes


stock lines for softwood, hardwood and bleached chemi- thermomechanical pulp (BCTMP), broke collection, stock mixing and an approach flow system. The 11.15-metre wide (wire)


machine will produce wood free uncoated paper grades in the basis weight range of 50-100 g/sqm. The design speed of the machine is 1,800 m/min, and it will produce 500,000 tonnes of paper a year. A subsidiary of Shandong Sun Holdings Group, Sun Paper has two mills in China with around four million tonnes/year (tpy) of paper and board capacity and 1.3 million tpy of wood pulp capacity. The company also operates a


Key technologies agreed for Metsä Fibre’s Kemi bioproduct mill


A preliminary agreement has been signed by Valmet to provide key technologies for Metsä Fibre’s planned Kemi bioproduct mill in Finland. Plans are for the mill to have an annual pulp production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes along with various other bio-products when it starts up at the beginning of 2023. Metsä Fibre will make a decision on the project during the autumn of 2020. The scope of the Valmet order


covers all main process islands and automation systems and will have a value of around €375m.


“We have set high


environmental, material and energy efficiency targets for the Kemi bioproduct mill,” says Ismo Nousiainen, chief executive of Metsä Fibre. “Valmet has been able to offer us the technology to reach these targets. Our good and long cooperation with Valmet creates a good foundation for a successful execution of this mill project and for the high performance of the bioproduct mill throughout its whole lifecycle.” Pasi Laine, chief executive of Valmet, added: “During our long


cooperation with Metsä Group and thanks to our successful innovative technology delivery to the Äänekoski bioproduct mill, we have been able to build a strong relationship that has formed an excellent basis for our cooperation also in this new planned project.” According to the agreement,


Valmet will deliver the full production process from wood handling to ready pulp bales, as well as automation system for the whole mill including features from Valmet’s Industrial Internet systems. Additionally, the project would include a smaller rebuild of


the existing pulp mill. “The mill will feature leading


process technology and the most advanced automation systems including the latest developments in our continuous cooking technology, to reach excellent energy efficiency, high end-product quality and high environmental performance,” says Bertel Karlstedt, president of pulp and energy business at Valmet. “In addition, with our wash


press technology, we provide a solution to manage low effluent flows and chemical oxygen demand levels.”


May/June 2020


fine paper making line with stock preparation, an extensive scope of


mill in Laos with a 300,000 tpy dissolving pulp line and a 400,000 tpy recycled pulp line. Fei Da, recovery island project manager at Sun Paper, commented: “Our overall target of the project is to build a world-class mill. We wanted to choose advanced and reliable technology that is safe to operate. We chose Valmet based on the good cooperation in our previous projects. Valmet also met our targets well.” Jussi Mäntyniemi, vice president of the recovery business unit at Valmet, added: “With our proven boiler technology, we were able to meet our customer’s tight requirements for high efficiency and low emissions. In this project we will utilise our global network, with a major part of the project management, manufacturing and purchases to be done locally in China and engineering in other Valmet locations.”


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