SCA has been present in Obbola for more than 100 years. This openness has certainly been an important success factor for Helios.”SCA Östrand’s new 7-effect evaporation plant is Sweden’s largest such line, with an evaporation capacity of 1,150 tonnes of water per hour and producing 82 percent virgin dry solids. The evaporation plant is extremely energy-efficient, with built-in recovery of excess heat from Valmet’s cooking plant and a methanol plant for producing liquid methanol. Finally, after many years of planning, preparation and construction, SCA got proof of what the line could do.

Diana (Thrace Paper Mill), Bankrupt, Aigaleo Elina (Komotini Paper Mill S.A.), Aigaleo India. “In a project of this size,” explains SCA’s Åke Edwall, “you face challenges every day. We’ve been co-operating with our customers in more than 700 board machine and 900 paper machine deliveries worldwide. In addition to the King, the opening celebration included representatives of the Swedish government, international pulp customers, SCA’s owners and a selection of the people who worked on the project. The coronavirus pandemic has lead to short-term uncertainty regarding publication paper demand, which may lead to market-related production stops at SCA 's Ortviken mill during the spring and summer. “Together, we had a great collaboration and willingness to make this work, with a truly results-oriented organization at all levels,” comments Hans Rodling. All papers are based on fresh fibers, which offers advantages including high brightness, bulk and opacity as well as a clean surface.

The project, which represents the biggest industrial investment ever made in northern Sweden, has resulted in a state-of-the-art pulp mill. Our Kraftliner product portfolio includes a range of high performance fresh fibre based products fulfilling high demands on quality and sustainability for corrugated board solutions. Valmet’s vision is to become the global champion in serving its customers. The training was delivered via several channels, including traditional classroom teaching, self-study through Valmet Online Learning, and hands-on training using pulp mill process simulators. Our 13,000 professionals around the world work close to our customers and are committed to moving our customers’ performance forward – every day.

Valmet also provides automation for liquefied natural gas (LNG) and biogas infrastructure, wastewater as well as oil and gas industries and has established a position in marine industry. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.We want everyone who works here or visits us to feel safe at Ortviken.

Accept Do you use Internet Explorer? Ortviken paper mill; This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience. Schoellershammer; Stora Enso Eilenburg Paper Mill, Eilenburg Hagen Paper Mill, Hagen Maxau Paper Mill, Maxau; UPM-Kymmene Corporation, Nordland Papier; Greece. And no one was disappointed.The massive project was named after Helios, the god of the sun in Greek mythology. Together we can develop innovative, tailored solutions from our wide technology, automation, and services offering.With an annual production capacity of 410,000 tonnes, SCA Munksund produces both white and brown packaging paper out of kraft pulp.

Our offering includes everything for profitable board and paper production: innovative technologies, reliability and performance adding services as well as advanced automation solutions to guarantee that your paper machine runs smoothly, energy-efficiently and uses raw materials economically.Valmet is the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. Our 13,000 professionals around the world work close to our customers and are committed to moving our customers’ performance forward – every day.Valmet's flexible tissue making technology provides sustainable production of all types of grades from plain to textured and structured tissue products with high quality. "In the Helios project, one item has been more important than anything else: safety. SCA Östrand’s digester is the largest softwood digester in the world, with a height of 64 meters and a diameter of 12.5 meters.“For our selection of suppliers,” continues Ingela Ekebro, “we simply focused on achieving the best total solution in terms of operational consistency, energy efficiency, cost efficiency and final pulp quality. “The simulator was very useful, as it gave the operators practical training in running the facility.