Finland-headed forest industry and energy technology provider Valmet Oyj has announced that it has been selected to deliver a comprehensive fiberline technology upgrade to Lecta Group’s combined pulp and paper mill in Zaragoza, Spain.
With seven mills in Spain, France, and Italy Lecta Group is a leading European manufacturer and distributor of specialty papers for labels and flexible packaging, coated and uncoated paper for publishing and commercial printing.
The upgrade enables a significant capacity increase in pulp production while reducing operational costs and improving the availability of the fiberline.
The delivery, the value of which has not been disclosed, is scheduled for Lecta’s annual shutdown in April 2025.
Our fiberline consists of equipment originally installed in 1975 and 1990. Despite having been well-maintained and regularly refurbished, it has reached the end of its lifecycle. We believe that by replacing old equipment with Valmet’s new technologies we will improve the efficiency of our process significantly through better availability and reduced energy consumption and maintenance costs, said Primitivo Prados, Mill Manager at Lecta Zaragoza.
The fiberline upgrade will cover wood handling, cooking, brown stock screening, washing, and oxygen delignification.
Valmet’s delivery consists of a comprehensive technology upgrade for the fiberline, including a new log feeding system and a Valmet Chip Cutter for wood handling, a cooking modification with Valmet OptiBin solution and Valmet Chip Pumps, a new screening room, an additional washing stage with a new Valmet TwinRoll Press, and an Oxygen Delignification stage modification.
Having successfully cooperated with the Zaragoza mill for a long time, we are happy that Lecta chose Valmet’s state-of-the-art wood handling, cooking, and fiberline technologies for this upgrade. It is a very important milestone in Valmet’s service development in the Iberian Peninsula, and we will do our best to support the Zaragoza mill in obtaining their targets of high productivity, competitiveness, and decreased environmental impact, said Eduardo Ruiz Urrutia, VP of SEMEA Sales, EMEA Area at Valmet.
