Valmet has received an order for a new wood handling line from Metsä Group's Joutseno pulp mill in Finland. The expansion works are starting this year and will be completed during spring 2020. The value of the order is around Euro 10-15 million, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
"Our softwood debarking capacity will increase with a third as a result of the expansion. This increases the effectivity of our operations and ensures the reliability of our debarking long into the future, and also enables the increase of the pulp production capacity in the future," says Ari Tanninen, Vice President for the Metsä Fibre Joutseno mill.
Valmet's delivery includes a log infeed conveyor with de-icing, hydrostatically supported debarking drum and state-of-the-art horizontal feed chipper. The capacity of the new wood handling line will be 470 cubic metres per hour.
Metsä Fibre Joutseno pulp mill is world's largest single line polysulfide softwood pulp mill. The annual production capacity of the Metsä Fibre Joutseno mill is 690,000 tons of soft wood.
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