Reliable machine fabric to reassure you

On February 22, 2022

Ittihad mill and the special relationship between virtue, from supporting the establishment of the green plant to the delivery of the entire production line of the factory.D virtue is the exclusive provider of the factory machine fabric.

位于阿拉伯联合酋长国阿布扎比的 Ittihad 造纸厂相当不凡。工厂于2019年落成,是海湾合作委员会 (GCC)的首家印刷书写纸厂,也是中东和北非地区最大的印刷书写纸厂。维美德与 Ittihad 造纸厂的合作始于初步预算和可行性研究评估。

"As the world first-class papermaking technology suppliers, virtue has a good track record, but what really makes me convinced that they understand the dynamic of our project and convinced.I thank you very much support has been d virtue and their professional knowledge."Ittihad paper mill Rabih El Assadi operations director said.

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Over the past few decades, I and d virtue experts established close relations of cooperation, it will bring additional value.

The production managerMika ViertolaIn the industry has a wealth of experience, especially in terms of global new mill commissioning and start up.He thinks that he is now working environment is very different, perhaps it is because of this, his work environment is much more interesting than before.


"Open a new factory is always a considerable challenge.In IPM, however, we not only building a factory, we are in a no prior experience papermaking business areas to build the whole organization and related culture.Taking into account all these factors, I think we are in the first year in the running performance and operating efficiency has achieved excellent results."Viertola said.

One-stop shopping to keep things simple

When Viertola in mid - 2018 to join IPM, all major supplier agreement has been reached.Plant site construction and dimension of concept of virtue OptiConcept M optimization modular machine delivery has entered the final stage, comprehensive, including paper machine fabrics and consumables, maintenance agreement will open cooperation with d virtue in the new journey.

"Technically, I'm very pleased with factory boot.All paper machine fabrics and consumables are provided by the dimensional virtue, such a
Experienced partners, we only need check carefully."Viertola said.

"Over the past few decades, I and d virtue experts established close relations of cooperation, it will bring additional value.

Viertola personal experience and long-term cooperation with d of virtue also confirm this."Over the past few decades, I and d virtue experts established close relations of cooperation, it will bring additional value.It makes communication and problem solving more smoothly.Coupled with reliable products, which means no need to buy another supplier of paper machine fabric or consumables."Viertola said

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"In terms of technology, I'm very pleased with factory boot.All paper machine fabrics and consumables are provided by the dimensional virtue, have such an experienced partners, we only need check carefully."The production manager Mika Viertola said.

Although it is a special year, anticipated results

Ittihad paper mill to start commercial production in early 2020.As is known to all, in many ways, this year is very challenging, especially for a start-up companies.

"The fall in prices fall, office paper demand, it is difficult to enter the market as a new participants.Our paper machine downtime every month for a period of time, not stable production as planned.But by the end of the year, our overall operating efficiency is as high as 8%.As long as a little adjustment, we can improve the running speed, and in one to two years to achieve our goal of efficiency.I also believe that we in the regional market growth potential, as well as our ability to become a local customers ideal suppliers."Viertola said.


Because of the new champions league pneumonia outbreak, limited international travel for more than a year.Viertola said, this is a challenge, but also learn new
The chance of things

"Sometimes we really need to d virtue personnel at the scene, but we have to accept the remote support.During the outbreak, we learn
The more factories and d remote connection between virtue performance center, which in many cases, shortens the response time."He said.

Reliable machine fabric plays an important role in production

Ittihad paper mill using dimensional virtue exclusive right from the start of the paper machine fabrics and consumables.Viertola experience has shown that d virtue of paper machine and the virtue paper machine fabric is a good combination.

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The paper mill to al-ittihad (IPM) of production capacity of 320000 tons, annual production of 65 billion pieces of A4 paper.IPM to regional and international markets provide printing and writing paper, but plans to focus on the response to the increasing dependence on imported parts needs

"I think I have never seen a trouble-free boot factory, this one is no exception.However, I am satisfied with dimensional virtue's support, we can quickly solve together at the beginning of the failure.Before I took part in the four dimensional virtue OptiConcept optimization concept paper machine start up, so it's easy for each position to choose the best machine, fabric design."


在谈到维美德纸机织物和耗材的质量时,Viertola 指出了两个最重要的特征。

"From the production point of view, press blankets, boots and durability of forming network and improve the performance of the machine is of vital importance.Reliable machine fabric support we achieve production efficiency, and can produce high quality paper.The most important is that it allows you to rest easy."Viertola said

The Text Marianne Valta
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Enterprises need to adapt to environmental changes

Sustainability plays an important role in the operation of IPM, the company continuously push new measures, gradually improve their operations."We are now closely around the development planning for the center with water.In ABU dhabi, due to the lack of fresh water, production water cost is much higher than most countries.Therefore, we invested in water cycle system, will make our water reuse rate reached 85%.In addition, we also have a live precipitated calcium carbonate factory and a sewage treatment plant, and factory emissions of carbon dioxide is very low, energy and water use efficiency is higher."Viertola explains.El Assadi believe that after the outbreak will appear "new normal", the papermaking enterprises also need to constantly adapt and improve."Between us and d virtue experts has established good relations of cooperation, I believe they offer us support in the future will also play a key role.With the help of the dimension of virtue, for example, we can continue to further optimize our process, and to deepen our understanding of data driven decision and prediction."ElAssadi said