Valmet Corporation

Valmet is organized around three business lines and five geographical areas. The business lines are Services, Pulp and Energy, and Paper. The areas are North America, South America, EMEA (Europe, Middle-East and Africa), Asia Pacific, and China. The areas are responsible for sales, providing services that meet customers’ needs and support of project deliveries in their respective regions.

Valmet is an established market leader and has a strong market position in all its businesses. 

Services business line provides customers with mill improvements, roll and workshop services, spare parts, fabrics, and life-cycle services. Valmet serves over 2000 pulp and paper mills globally. This means that annually more than half of the world’s 3 800 pulp and paper mills buy services from Valmet. 

Pulp and Energy business line provides technologies and solutions for pulp and energy production as well as for biomass conversion. The pulp projects range from process equipment deliveries to complete pulp mills. Valmet’s energy solutions include e.g. biomass based energy boilers and their rebuilds. In addition, Valmet continuously develops new biomass conversion technologies.

Paper business line delivers complete board, tissue and paper production lines and machine rebuilds. Board, tissue and paper are used in a number of end products such as packaging, handkerchiefs, toilet paper and hand towels as well as printing and writing papers.

Services business line

Services are offered globally through Valmet’s 70 service units and about 5,000 service professionals. Of the approximately 3,800 pulp and paper mills in operation in the world, over a half purchase services from Valmet annually. The Services business line’s customers include companies mainly in the pulp, paper and energy industries. The most important geographic markets for the Services business line are EMEA and North America.

Services are an important part of promoting reliability, cost-efficiency, capacity and quality of the operations of pulp, paper and energy companies. Services also include offerings aimed at increasing energy, water and raw material efficiency, reducing emissions and promoting operational safety and reliability. 

Over the past two decades, Valmet has increased its focus on the service business. In recent years, Valmet’s customers have become increasingly focused on their core businesses and have outsourced service and maintenance related activities. Demand for services in the industries served by Valmet has grown in North America and Europe, and even more in South America, China and Asia Pacific.

The Services business line provides services and solutions to the pulp, paper, energy and certain other process industries. The services and solutions provided include spare, wear and replacement parts and equipment, paper machine clothing, filter fabrics, paper machine roll services, plant improvements, upgrades and technical modifications and expert services to improve plant efficiency and operational effectiveness, as well as plant maintenance outsourcing.