Valmet receives order from Holmen

Valmet receives order from Holmen for softwood line rebuild at Iggesund mill.

Valmet will deliver equipment and services for a rebuild of the soft wood pulp line at Holmen's Iggesund mill in Sweden. The rebuild will improve production stability, cut variable costs and increase pulp production capacity by 15 percent equally to 50 000 tonnes. The works will be implemented in two stages during 2015 and 2016.

According to mill manager Olof Vinblad von Walter, this rebuild will eliminate bottle necks in the process and increase pulp capacity.

This rebuild is the first step towards a press based bleach plant. The high outlet consistency makes the process easier to control and the volume of effluent will be less than for washers with lower discharge consistencies.