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TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTION
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND PILOTING
Our Technology & Production business unit is dedicated to advancing industrial piloting and technology development. We provide a state-of-the-art environment where innovative ideas can be tested, refined, and scaled up to meet industrial standards.
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Expert Team: Our team comprises seasoned professionals, including former Valmet experts and specialists from various fields, who bring extensive industry knowledge and experience to support your projects. This diverse expertise ensures that we can tackle the most complex challenges in bioproducts and bioprocess development.
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From initial research to full-scale production, our lean core team and extensive expert network provide professional and cost-effective support. We guide you through every step of the process, offering insights and solutions to optimize your production and technology development efforts.
RAW MATERIALS
Lignocellulose based materials e.g.
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Agrofibers
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Recycled Fibers
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Wood Pulp
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Bark
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Side Streams
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Textile Fibers
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Special Fibers:
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Nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC)
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Microfibrillated cellulose (MFC)
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Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC)
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FIBER TREATMENT
Refining & Pulping
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Processing Raw Materials into Cellulose & Fractionation
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Internal Fibrillation
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Fractional Piloting: Hemicelluloses, Extractives, Lignin
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Special Fibers:
NFC/MFC & MCC
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Stock Washing & Processing
PILOT LINE & CONVERTING
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT & EQUIPMENT TESTING
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Special head boxes
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Foam forming
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High-density lining
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Sensor testing
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Barrier testing
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Special coatings
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Electrospinning
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Die presses
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MATERIAL & RECIPE TESTING
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Composites
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Multilayer & membrane materials
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Films & filters
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Fillers & chemicals
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Special fibers & materials (MCC/MFC, recycled fibers)
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TRAINING
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Hands on customer training including both theory and practical training, on our pilot paper machine.
INDUSTRIAL PILOTING & TESTING ENVIRONMENT
We offer our customers and partners a creative, supportive and results-driven environment where ideas are freely tested and refined.
In Lappeenranta/Lemi, Finland we have progessively improving possibilities to serve demanding testing and industrial piloting requirements. Pilot paper machine, fiber treatment units, stock preparation and laboratories etc.
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Flexible piloting
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Pre-production & proof-of-concepts
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Showcase your products & equipment to your customers.
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Any cellulose-based material manufacturing
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Our machines can be found here
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Product development & scale up
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Packaging concepts
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Filter materials
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Molded products
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Composites
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Films
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INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM / CLUSTER
@ Lappeenranta, 2024
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New open access pilot site will concentrate on industrial piloting & development of waste and side stream conversion to pulp and value added fractions.
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Agropulping
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Extraction
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Lignin processing
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Biobased adhesives
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Waste textile solutions: Polycotton separation
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Bark residues
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Microfibrillated/crystalline cellulose
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Conversion of food waste to bioplants: spent beer grain, citrus peels, flour residues, oil pressing cakes, etc.
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More info: joonas.soikkeli@fiber-x.fi
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PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
Our core competence is to design and build new concepts and pilots for novel materials, products and processes. We play a key role as a technological partner, by adding sustainable value to the innovation chain from raw material to final products.
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OUR OFFERING
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Process technology development
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Process optimization & retrofitting
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MINIMILLS – smaller scale satellite & modular manufacturing units
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OUR FOCUS IS ON NOVEL MATERIAL INNOVATIONS FOR FAST COMMERCIAL SCALE-UP!
FiberXperience™
FIBERX has trained over 1000 engineers, specialists and sales personnel from machine manufacturers, chemical and packaging companies during the past decades.
The secret is practical training in a live paper machine environment by industry experts combined with laboratory measurements and workshop & classroom training.
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We'd be happy to fill your and your partners' knowledge gaps and give "Heureka" moments with deep understanding of paper and board processes!
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To whom:
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All personnel working in the paper and pulp industry
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Suppliers working in the paper and pulp industry environment
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Schools and educational institutions
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More info: joonas.soikkeli@fiber-x.fi
Want to know more about our Piloting services?
Get in Touch
+358 505 865 373