Metso's Mika Viljanmaa receives Marcus Wallenberg Prize for ground-breaking work on metal belt calendering
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Metso Corporation's press release on April 19, 2012 at 10:15 a.m. local time
Mika Viljanmaa, who works as Development Manager in Metso's Järvenpää unit in
Finland, has been awarded the prestigious 2012 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for his
work on metal belt calendering in paper and board making. Viljanmaa will receive
the prize at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on October 1, 2012.
According to the Board of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, "The 2012 Marcus
Wallenberg Prize has been awarded to Mika Severi Viljanmaa for his ground-
breaking development of metal belt calendering technology resulting in better
paper print surfaces with less fiber materials and higher production
efficiency". Furthermore, the invention also paves the way for applications in
other paper machine sections with the opportunity of becoming a wider platform
technology expected to substantially enhance production efficiency,
competitiveness and sustainability of paper and board making.
Metal belt technology improves quality and efficiency, with less raw materials
and energy
Metal belt technology has made a major breakthrough as a revolutionary new
calendering concept for papermaking. Calendering is done to improve the paper
surface and thus print quality. Compared with conventional calendering, advanced
long nip metal belt calendering technology enables manufacturing of paper and
board with better surface properties at a desired level of stiffness and bulk,
but with 3-10% less fiber raw material; in addition it decreases energy
consumption and yields higher production efficiency.
It is also suitable for low-cost fibers such as recycled fibers and thus enables
development of new cost-competitive paper and board products. The new concept is
compact, making it ideal for rebuilds to increase capacity by removing existing
production bottlenecks such as yankee dryers or wet stacks.
Mika Viljanmaa
Mika Viljanmaa, M.Sc., born in 1966, joined Valmet Corporation (now Metso) in
1996 as a development engineer at their Järvenpää unit, where he also completed
his Master's thesis for the Helsinki University of Technology. Since 2003 he was
in charge of calendering research and development at Metso Paper and since 2009
he has been responsible for R&D in surface treatment technology.
Viljanmaa is a highly prolific innovator, with a total of 120 protected
inventions. 57 of these are related to metal belt technology and Viljanmaa is
the sole inventor in 12 of them.
Mika Viljanmaa has guided several thesis works related to metal belt calendering
and has presented conference papers on the subject.
The Marcus Wallenberg Prize
The Marcus Wallenberg Prize is an international prize that was established in
1980. Each year the prize recognizes a single research breakthrough by one
scientist or a small group of collaborating scientists. The selected
breakthrough will have a significant effect on the forestry and forest products
industries.
In addition to rewarding the winner, the prize is also intended to encourage
further research around the world. The prize sum is SEK 2 million. For more
information, please visit www.mwp.org.
In 1999 the prize was awarded to former Valmet (Metso) engineers Pekka
Eskelinen, Raimo Virta and Vesa Vuorinen for their pioneering development of a
unique air blowing technology for stabilizing paper webs aerodynamically at high
speeds.
Metso is a global supplier of technology and services to customers in the
process industries, including mining, construction, pulp and paper, power, and
oil and gas. Our 30,000 professionals based in over 50 countries deliver
sustainability and profitability to customers worldwide. Expect results.
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For further information, please contact:
Jouko Yli-Kauppila, Vice President, Technology and IPR Coordination, Pulp, Paper
and Power, Metso, tel. +358 40 507 6946
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