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SCA picks Valmet equipment for pulp mill expansion

07 Dec '15

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Valmet has received an order from SCA, a producer of sustainable personal care and tissue products to supply a cooking, fibre line and an evaporation plant to SCA's Östrand pulp mill located in Timrå, Sweden.

“This delivery is part of SCA's investment to upgrade the production of bleached softwood kraft pulp from 430,000 tons to 900,000 tons per year,” a Valmet press release stated.

The order is included as received in the fourth quarter of 2015; however, Valmet did not disclose the value of the order.

SCA's project director Ingela Ekebro said, "The new pulp mill will have world class technology and we are going to produce pulp of top quality.”

“Our environmental performance is the best achievable and we are going to do it with a cost efficiency that allows us to successfully compete with other pulp suppliers worldwide," Ekebro added.

"This major agreement with SCA is a strong continuation of Valmet's and SCA's long term cooperation,” Bertel Karlstedt, president, Pulp and Energy Business Line at Valmet said.

“The project has a significant employment impact to Valmet in Sweden, since a significant part of the equipment to be delivered in this project, will be engineered and produced in our Swedish units," Karlstedt too added.

Valmet's delivery includes a Compact Cooking G2 together with a Twinroll press based fibre line for both ECF and TCF pulp production at a capacity of 2,850 air dry tons per day.

The evaporation plant consists of seven effects with a Tubel superconcentrator for high dry solids and has a capacity of 1,150 tons of evaporated water per hour and is optimised for superior water and energy efficiency.

Valmet has earlier delivered both pulp and tissue technology to SCA and has also extensive services contracts with SCA, with the most recent delivery being the new Compact Cooking G2 for the Obbola kraftliner mill. (AR)

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