Resolute Forest Products Inc. has selected Valmet's Advantage NTT tissue production technology and Valmet's automation solution for the new facility it is building in the United States to manufacture at-home, premium private label tissue paper, including bath and towel. The start-up of the tissue production line is planned for early 2017.

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Valmet to supply a tissue production line to Resolute Forest Products in the United States

Sep 03, 2015. /Lesprom Network/. Resolute Forest Products Inc. has selected Valmet's Advantage NTT tissue production technology and Valmet's automation solution for the new facility it is building in the United States to manufacture at-home, premium private label tissue paper, including bath and towel. The new machine will be installed at the company's mill in Calhoun, Tennessee, and start-up of the tissue production line is planned for early 2017. The value of the order is not disclosed, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

"We are very proud to work with Resolute on this important project, and we will deliver first-class tissue technology to their state-of-the-art facility," says Soren Eriksson, Director of Sales, Tissue Mills Business Unit, Valmet.

Valmet's Advantage NTT tissue production technology is designed for maximum flexibility as well as enhanced product quality and can easily change between production of conventional tissue and textured tissue in just a few hours. It has been well received by the market, and this will be the fifth NTT machine to be delivered.

Valmet is the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries.