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Drive control upgrades UPM Nordland
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UPM Nordland Papier’s papermaking complex is the largest mill in Europe, with an annual capacity of 1,400,000 tonnes per year. Three new paper machine drive control systems are integrated with existing machinery and process control systems. The integrated control network solves reliability problems and rationalizes spare parts and service life cycle costs. Drive control upgrades consolidate UPM Nordland Papier machine controls PULP AND PAPER By Mark Williamson, Pekka Höyssä and Ilkka Saarinen Within Metso, the knowledge of drive control technology and applications has been an important factor in the development of solutions for a variety of machine upgrade projects.

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The Tampere engineering group has extensive experience in numerous applications from pulp drying machines to high-speed paper and tissue machines, including off-line finishing machines. From left: Olli Kääpä, Mika Etholen, Miika Konstari, Ari Korpioja and Pekka Höyssä. echnology renewal is an important part of maintaining papermaking efficiency and ensuring lower life cycle costs. Many paper machines which were built in the 1960’s and 1970’s can produce high quality papers at high efficiencies if the installed assets are kept up to date and any threatening reliability issues are dealt with...

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