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Insights 19.12.2023 Blog post

Innovation and change: Hallmarks of 2023, opportunities for 2024

Reflecting on 2023 brings two overarching themes into focus: innovation and change. Both are pivotal in driving success, and each speak to an exciting future. Innovation: Packaging Portfolio and a new My Solution showcased at MIAC 2023. The conference provided an opportunity for tissue industry professionals to experience several key solutions for improving production efficiencies, competitive advantage, and outcomes

Converting Customer industries Tissue

Insights 04.12.2023 Blog post

Valmet Tissue Converting expands MY family to support the needs & success of tissue converters

With 100 lines sold and installed worldwide, MYLine a testament to how Valmet combines industry-leading innovation with cutting-edge technologies and support to provide tailored solutions to global customers. They trust Valmet to find ways to consistently reduce lead times, optimize OEE, and provide excellent value for the money – and the MY family of Perini and MTC brands delivers.

Process technology Converting Tissue

Insights 22.09.2023 Blog post

Innovative solutions help tissue manufacturers be more efficient and competitive

Competitive advantage in the tissue industry is paramount for manufacturers. Leveraging innovation in technologies and equipment provides key opportunities for gaining market share, especially when partnering with a world leader in tissue technologies. Valmet continues to engineer solutions that improve production efficiencies and outcomes for manufacturers, as evidenced by the launch of three exciting new pieces of equipment.

Innovation Converting Tissue

Insights 05.09.2023 Blog post

Valmet Spare Parts service helps tissue converters choose and maximize OEM parts

Using the right spare parts for maintenance is critical because line efficiency depends on the correct functioning of each part. Cost often drives many tissue converters to decide upon using non-OEM spare parts, and, just as often, they usually come to regret it.

Availability / reliability Services Converting Tissue

Insights 25.07.2023 Blog post

3 Strategies tissue manufacturers must use to control production costs

The data that advanced Valmet converting technologies and equipment capture reflect key metrics on machine or line availability (downtime), performance (production speed), and product quality. With these insights, tissue manufacturers can quickly assess their overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and take actionable steps to manage production costs through improving machine or line processes. But, with the proliferation of digital transformation, maximizing capacity is multi-faceted, especially...

Maintenance and operations Converting Tissue

Insights 11.07.2023 Blog post

7 Ways Valmet helps bridge the U.S. tissue industry’s growing skilled labor gap

On the whole, the U.S. labor market continues to struggle to find enough skilled workers to meet demand, and Manufacturing is one of the industries most affected by the shortage. With pandemic-related challenges and an estimated 22% of the existing skilled workforce retiring by 2025, it’s anticipated that 2.1 million U.S. manufacturing jobs could be vacant in 2030.1 Currently, roughly 695,000 positions are open.2 The Pulp & Paper industry is not exempt from the impact of the labor gap. Producing...

Process technology Converting Tissue

Insights 27.06.2023 Blog post

Valmet technology solutions to consider to improve OEE

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the objective measure of productivity in a tissue manufacturing facility. OEE provides data-driven insights into processes, and how those processes are either optimizing or obstructing best use of equipment and operators. Identifying areas of OEE improvement gives tissue manufacturers tangible, actionable next steps to implement meaningful change. In the age of digital transformation, change includes technology — and Valmet is the preferred strategic part...

Process technology Converting Tissue

Insights 30.05.2023 Blog post

Valmet Kit Bio Pack plus revolutionizes tissue product packaging with uncoated paper and innovative nozzle-fed glue application

Globally, about 36% of all plastics produced are currently used specifically for packaging.1 It’s a troubling statistic in a world that’s increasingly sensitive to the ecological impact of plastic. It’s also the impetus behind plastic-free packaging initiatives undertaken by leading brands across a range of industries. For tissue manufacturers, the transition away from plastic packaging is complicated. Virgin polyethylene has long been the primary packaging solution for tissue products. The plas...

Innovation Converting Tissue

Insights 30.05.2023 Blog post

Geopolitics, sustainability, and technology: key insights from Tissue World Düsseldorf 2023

More than 1,500 tissue professionals from 80 countries gathered at Tissue World Düsseldorf 2023 (TWD) to network with global colleagues and explore the future of the tissue industry. During the nearly four dozen educational sessions, presenters focused on key concepts driving global tissue markets and how they influence change — and success — in all aspects of the tissue business. Geopolitics, sustainability, and technology were recurring themes in both casual conversations among attendees and i...

Process technology Converting Tissue

Insights 14.03.2023 Blog post

How embossing impacts toilet tissue aesthetics and consumer buying behavior

The origins of toilet tissue embossing are rooted in practically. The three-dimensional patterns increase surface area and liquid absorbency of the tissue, and also keep multiple plies from peeling apart. Absorbency and bonding remain key benefits of embossed toilet tissue. However, embossing also plays an important role in meeting the demands of buyers who are increasingly selective about their toilet tissue choices.

Process technology Converting Tissue

Insights 18.01.2023 Blog post

Glue-free technologies increase environmental & operational efficiencies

Converting tissue into rolled products is an adhesive-intensive process. It requires a total of four adhesives: one used during core winding, a second during pickup/transfer, a third for ply bonding lamination, and a fourth seals the tail. With greater emphasis being placed on sustainability throughout the paper industry as a whole, this reliance on adhesives has come under recent scrutiny. While an array of natural and semi-synthetic adhesives are available to make tissue converting more eco-fr...

Process technology Converting Tissue

Insights 16.12.2022 Blog post

Continuous control, increased blade life, improved OEE - these are the new features of MTC Sam cut active

Developed to support its customers' business MTC Sam cut active is the Valmet solution to self-regulate and minimize the risk of quality non-conformities in tissue products.

Process technology Converting Tissue

Tissue converting blogs

Innovation and change: Hallmarks of 2023, opportunities for 2024

Valmet Tissue Converting expands MY family to support the needs & success of tissue converters

Innovative solutions help tissue manufacturers be more efficient and competitive

Valmet Spare Parts service helps tissue converters choose and maximize OEM parts

3 Strategies tissue manufacturers must use to control production costs

7 Ways Valmet helps bridge the U.S. tissue industry’s growing skilled labor gap

Valmet technology solutions to consider to improve OEE

Valmet Kit Bio Pack plus revolutionizes tissue product packaging with uncoated paper and innovative nozzle-fed glue application

Geopolitics, sustainability, and technology: key insights from Tissue World Düsseldorf 2023

How embossing impacts toilet tissue aesthetics and consumer buying behavior

Glue-free technologies increase environmental & operational efficiencies

Continuous control, increased blade life, improved OEE - these are the new features of MTC Sam cut active

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