Metso now offers combined process performance control and product quality management coordinated across the whole production process.

Metso's new Fiber to Print solution links a complete suite of process control, quality management and environmental solutions that collectively optimize the whole chain from pulp production to end-product. Metso combines the analyzers and controls to stabilize the process, QCS quality control, automated laboratories, as well as advanced controls for end-product management and to optimize productivity. To complement the Fiber to Print solution Metso introduces new online surface & structural measurements and camera based web inspection systems.

Fiber to Print is based on data collection and management across the whole process. All the collected data is time-syncronized into one quality report. For example, synchronizing data from Metso Paper Lab automated paper quality laboratory and on-line quality sensors, all the way back to analyzers in pulp preparation, provides a full picture of the quality building process for further optimization.

Customized solutions over the entire production line

Significant reduction in chemical use is achieved with mill wide brightness optimization, which coordinates pulp bleaching to final paper brightness. Printing house reclamations can be significantly reduced by applying new developments in online measuring of paper structural and surface properties. Camera based web inspection and online scanning by optical and imaging based technologies coordinated with upstream wet-end analyzers now provide new and improved tools to predict paper or board print quality earlier than ever.

''Today's papermaker's recognize that a major part of paper,and board quality is built before the headbox. By the time fiber furnish gets to the machine, it is too late to correct the mistakes done for example in pulping. That is why Metso offers combined process performance control and product quality management coordinated across the whole production process,'' says Jukka Sorsa, Director, Pulp&Paper Applications, automation business line, Metso

Metso is a global supplier of sustainable technology and services for mining, construction, power generation, automation, recycling and the pulp and paper industries. We have about 29,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com, www.twitter.com/metsoautomation

Metso's automation professionals specialize in process industry flow control solutions, automation and information management systems and applications, and life cycle services. Main products include for example control valves, automation systems, quality control systems and measurement solutions.

For more information please contact:

Jukka Sorsa, Director, Pulp&Paper Applications, automation business line, Metso

jukka.sorsa@metso.com