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A novel software tool that optimizes raw material usage in paper and board manufacturing. The tool has wide references and provides payback in just weeks.
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Furnish Solutions
We provide fibre and
paper furnish solutions to pulp and paper
industry
worldwide
GloCell Oy
Tekniikantie 2F
02150 Espoo
Finland
Quality and cost optimization possibilities
with SoftaCell™
General
GloCell Oy has started back in 2004 as fiber
and furnish consulting company for pulp and
papermakers, founded by brothers Lehtonen
(Ph.D. and M.sc). They had an idea, that
forest based industry can do things in a new
way and wanted to develop a new software to
help in that process. That is how SoftaCell™was created.
Since then, GloCell has become the best on
the market providing solutions for
multivariable cost and material optimization.
GloCell’s SoftaCell™ optimization program is
nowadays globally in use by forest based
industry companies.
GloCell Oy
GloCell is a specialized company working
with different multivariable models for
furnish mix optimization and evaluation
of their cost to quality ratios.
Core competences of our company are
extensive understanding about the fibres,
mathematical modelling skills and wide
experience from the pulp- and paper
industry
WHAT WE DO
History
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SoftaCell™
Fiber Knowledge Multivariable modeling
Monetary Tools
GloCell’s business idea
We offer an unique business proposal for pulp- paper- and board producers that brings real financial value through combination of these
knowledge areas
About the potential in furnish mix
optimization
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1 000 000€“Annual saving potential in a 500Kt/a
papermill if the furnish optimization shows 2€
per ton cheaper solution for producing the
same”
Examples how to use SoftaCellTM
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• SoftaCell™ primary function is to find and simulate the optimum furnish mix for different paper or board grades based on the potential of the available pulps and fillers
• With the help of SoftaCell™ optimal pulp combinations and refining ratios can be found in acknowledge of effect on final quality and cost efficiency of the mix changes
• In the program it’s easy to set limits minimum and maximum values for all the necessary quality parameter ranges and optimize without loss of total performance
How SoftaCell™ works
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Optimize your production with SoftaCell™How could it be done in papermaking as an example
Later on you would have
modelled paper structure
consisting from in example
different types of pulps,
fillers and additives, with
spesific production
parameters and process
variables taken into account
These structures can then
be optimized within the
quality limits to suit your
preferences with SoftaCell™
Cost effect of different raw
material combinations will
be reported simultaneously
with changed quality
properties
In the beginning, you would
have list of your pulps with
quality properties of
different kinds
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In Benchmarking tool you
can compare different
quality parameters
of the pulps as a function
of refining energy levels,
either in number values
or graphically
SoftaCell™ basic appearance
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With Furnish mix
optimization tool
you can build
paper mixes and
optimize them
based on end
products quality
demands
SoftaCell™ basic use
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You can see the
actual saving
potential of each of
the alternatives!
Mix report is
synchronized with
mix optimization so
that every change in
the use of pulps or
machine
parameters is seen
immediately as a
change on
economics
SoftaCell™ economics
In this example a single ~60kt/a papermachine shows 600k€/a saving potential, just by changing
between hardwood suppliers in furnish mix, without any significant quality losses
Board Optimization
• The board structure can be created from furnish mixes.
• All the layers can be individually optimized with mix optimization feature of the program and the results can be selected in the board optimization tool afterwards as different layers
• In this case a 3-layer structure in presented, but there is an upgrade option for multilayer structure model including coatings
• Easy comparison• Grammages included
• Good exporting tools to excel
• Cost structure comparison
• Easy way to compare how different changes will effect on end quality properties of the board
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Optimize your production with SoftaCell™How could it be done in board making as an example
Later on you would have
modelled multilayer board
structure consisting from
layer mixes combinated
from different types of
pulps, fillers and additives,
with spesific production
parameters and process
variables taken into account
These structures can then
be optimized within the
quality limits to suit your
preferences with SoftaCell™
Cost effect of different raw
material combinations will
be reported simultaneously
with changed quality
properties
In the beginning with triple
layer board optimization,
you would have a different
list of possible layer mixes
for top- middle- and bottom
to choose for
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Steering to use the best raw material combinations
available
Compare different options of raw materials easy and
fast
Cost efficient development and testing of new
products
Optimization of quality to customers
•Buy the right pulps
•Survey in which end products you can use same pulp grades.
•Channel right raw materials to right locations
•Find out technical potential in the end product
•Be able to see effects of material change fast on economical level
•Steering of R&D on higher business area level
•Point out the best and be able to forget the rest
•Be able solve customer problems
•Produce “quality good enough”
•Increase your pulp sales with SoftaCell™
SoftaCell™ can offer value for the whole corporation
Mill
level
Value added by SoftaCell™
Forecast for SoftaCell™ project payback time
• The idea of SoftaCell is to create savings along the use of the program through better cost and quality profile, R&D resource releases, new product creations and enhanced pulp sales
• Return On Investment (ROI) is always case specific as are the SoftaCell™ projects and customer demands as well
• Investment payback time is easier tool to evaluate how good investment SoftaCell™ is related into other cost affectivity offering actions
• Example diagram on the right is made for SoftaCell™ customer having annual production of 400kt in total, to show out the project economy forecast
• Example’s customer’s aim is to create new products with better quality cost effectivity.
• Saving potential is always corporate and case specific. Typical savings created are usually around 3€/ton but in many cases when a high percentage of the pulps used for production are bought from the markets, savings of 10€/ton and more have been reported in Europe.
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GloCell Credentials
• GloCell have been working with many different kind of companies during last ten years, many of them are confidential customer relationships.
• SoftaCell™ is nowadays globally used by pulp, paper and board producing companies.
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Furnish Solutions
We provide fibre and
paper furnish solutions to pulp and paper
industry
worldwide
GloCell Oy
Tekniikantie 2F
02150 Espoo
Finland
Thank you!
Let’s organize a meeting to discuss more
GloCell Oy
Jari Aittakari
Vice President
+358 45 858 8300