• Environmental solutions
• Process improvement
• Maintenance services
• Production support
• Roll services
• Spares and process parts
• Daily spares
• Refiner segments and fillings
• Screen baskets
• Doctoring products
• Coater blades
• Headbox flow sheets
• Suction roll seals
• Sizer consumables
• Slitter Management program
• Recycled fiber
• Stock preparation
• Paper machines
• Board machines
• Winding and roll handling
• Service centers

Doctoring solutions and services for improved runnability

Metso offers a wide range of doctoring products, including doctor blades, blade holders and doctoring accessories. Our offering is the most cost effective overall doctoring solutions in the markets targeting to optimal blade life times, energy savings and improved safety.

We tackle the challenges that paper and board makers are facing due to the continuous need to reduce paper making costs, with the growing use of recycled fiber and ever-higher machine speeds. Cleanliness and runnability with the lowest costs have become key issues. One good way to achieve all this is to strive for an effective doctoring process.

Metso's portfolio includes a unique selection of innovative doctoring solutions from blade materials and doctor holders to auxiliary equipment to ease and improve the handling, storage and recycling of doctoring components and to enhance operator safety.

ValEco doctor blades that create energy savings through high wear resistance and low friction.

ValDual doctor blades that create savings and increase the efficiency of dewatering.

LiteCompact doctor blade holders with superior properties and performance.

• Paper, board and tissue machine engineering expertise
• Pulp and paper process and automation know-how
• Extensive expertise in rolls, roll covers and coatings
• Understanding of the variety of factors affecting doctoring, as evidenced by the large number of international patents held by Metso
• Long-term RTD in doctoring designs and concepts, materials and handling processes
• Reliability through testing with specialized testing equipment
• A truly global network of doctoring professionals on all continents
  

  Stora Enso’s Kvarnsveden mill first in Sweden to install ValDual

   

  “Daring to take the plunge and test the new ValDual blade wasn’t exactly a difficult choice,” comments Lennart Johansson, Assistant Superintendent for Stora Enso Kvarnsveden’s PM 12. Read more

  

  ValDual: Low-cost doctoring in challenging soft cover positions

   

  Interested in reducing your doctoring costs for soft-covered suction or grooved rolls to one tenth of your present costs? Metso’s new ValDual blade does just that and delivers optimal doctoring results even in the most challenging positions. Read more

  

  Energy savings through optimized doctoring at the dryer section

   

  Would you be interested in cutting your energy costs while also gaining such additional benefits as improved drying capacity, better runnability, lower doctoring costs and less waste? Read more