Piloting Services for Paper and Board Production at Valmet's Rautpohja Pilot Facility

Notice title: Industrial-scale paper and board piloting services at Valmet’s Rautpohja pilot facility

Piloting services for paper and board production: Development, validation, demonstration, and scale-up of fibre-based products, production processes, and related technologies for VTT's research, development, and customer projects. Services include testing at industrially relevant machine speeds, process conditions, or equipment configurations. This covers trials related to new fibre-based products, raw materials, furnish compositions, chemical applications, multilayer structures, forming concepts, pressing, drying, and other paper and board manufacturing processes. The standard service includes trial planning and preparation, pilot-machine operation, standard operating personnel, process supervision, agreed pilot equipment and facilities, required utilities, standard process measurements and data collection, the trial report, a results review meeting, normal machine cleaning, safety induction, and site-access arrangements. The piloting environment enables trials involving multilayer fibre-based web structures, alternative headbox and forming configurations, different pressing and drying arrangements, and wet-end or web-based application of starch, chemicals, and other materials. The procurement covers project-specific pilot trial campaigns carried out at the supplier's pilot facility.

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