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ANDRITZ Group welcomes Procemex
Know more about ANDRITZ's new addition to the Automation and Digitalization portfolio, a global leader in integrated web monitoring and web inspection solutions for the pulp and paper industry.
Strengthening Automation and Digitalization portfolio
Procemex’s smart camera-based solutions help customers ensure product quality and minimize costly production downtime. With 20 years of industry experience, Procemex has delivered over 1,000 systems to customers worldwide. It has a team of more than 100 vision systems experts and operates from Finland and has subsidiaries in Germany, Japan, and the US.
The integration of Procemex solutions complements ANDRITZ’s portfolio of Intelligent Instruments that enable customer mills to operate more efficiently and more autonomously.
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Jarno Nymark, ANDRITZ Executive Board Member responsible for the Pulp & Paper business area, says: “Procemex’s advanced solutions perfectly complement our product portfolio for improving plant operations in the pulp and paper industry. Machine vision systems are a fundamental building block for plant autonomy. We look forward to welcoming the Procemex team to ANDRITZ and working together to provide the best customer support.”
Procemex to supply web monitoring and inspection system to SCA Obbola in Sweden
Procemex has received an order from the Swedish paper mill SCA Obbola to supply a OnePlatform Web Monitoring & Inspection System for their PM2, the world’s largest high-quality kraftliner machine.
PM2, which started up in November 2022, is 9.6 m wide and has a design speed of 1,400 m/min and a production capacity of 725,000 t/y. The scope of supply also includes Automatic Target Control for the machine’s winder.
The new system will fully replace the existing web monitoring and inspection system and will be set up in the customer's virtualized environment. It will be delivered with a comprehensive service agreement ensuring continuous 24/7 technical support and regular on-site and remote maintenance to keep it performing at the highest level. Commissioning of the system is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2024.
The high-resolution web inspection system will have two measurement geometries: High-angle reflection for the top side of the sheet for comprehensive surface analysis and transmission web inspection for complete product quality assurance. The efficiency of the winder is optimized by Automatic Winder Target Control (ATC).
The fully integrated web monitoring system includes 34 extremely light-sensitive Procemex Lumina Supersense smart cameras and powerful Procemex Eco strobe lights. Each web monitoring camera position incorporates the latest Procemex ProClean pinhole technology, ensuring uninterrupted sheet visibility and minimizing maintenance efforts.
The modern, integrated, and high-resolution Procemex web inspection and monitoring solution will provide SCA Obbola with new opportunities and technical solutions to improve product quality and production line efficiency.
The core of SCA's business is the forest, Europe's largest private forest holding. Around this unique resource, SCA has built a well-developed value chain based on renewable raw materials from their own and others' forests. SCA offers packaging paper, pulp, wood products, renewable energy, services for forest owners, and efficient transport solutions. SCA was founded in 1929 and has its headquarters in Sundsvall, Sweden.