Voith Group, founded in 1867 and headquartered in Heidenheim, Germany, is a global technology company specializing in drive systems, hydropower solutions, and papermaking technologies. The company's diverse portfolio includes industrial services, automation technologies, and digital applications, serving industries such as energy, paper, raw materials, and transportation. Voith is committed to innovation and sustainability, focusing on the development of technologies that promote energy efficiency and resource conservation. With operations in over 60 countries and a workforce of approximately 22,000 employees, Voith continues to set standards in various industrial markets through its advanced engineering solutions.
Huawon started PM 16 in Ma'anshan, Anhui Province, using Voith solutions to produce eco-friendly décor base paper, strengthening its market position both domestically and internationally.
Saica partners with Voith to install OnEfficiency.Strength digital solution for starch conservation and CO2 emissions reduction at El Burgo de Ebro and Nogent-sur-Seine sites.
Voith announces the opening of a new OnPerformance.Lab (OPL) site in São Paulo, Brazil, South America. With this expansion, Voith strengthens its regional footprint and expands its service, optimization and consulting activities. The new OPL site is specifically designed to support paper manufacturers in automation, digitalization and achieving their sustainability goals.
The leading full-line supplier Voith today launched the new InfibraFiner at the ZELLCHEMING trade fair, adding a state-of-the-art, innovative and sustainable product to its BlueLine product family.
SCA is successfully utilizing Voith's digital and automation solutions with the aim of optimizing the production efficiency of its new XcelLine PM 2. Last year, the leading full-line supplier Voith successfully commissioned the paper machine at its Obbola site.
Voith has commissioned DS Smith to rebuild its PM 4 at its Viana site in Northern Portugal to increase production capacity and efficiency. The mill produces 400,000 tons of kraftliner and top kraftliner per year.
Voith delivered effective commissioning trainings for the November 2022 start-up of the world’s largest kraftliner machine, SCA’s PM 2 in Obbola, Sweden.
The hybrid trade fair will provide a platform for forward-looking process and product technology innovations for the paper, pulp and fiber-based industries.
Saving CO2 emissions and energy are among the most important fields of action of our time. In recognition of this fact, Voith has developed a completely new, disruptive concept that allows CO2 neutral paper production. Moreover, the groundbreaking concept reduces fresh water consumption by up to 95 percent as well as energy consumption by up to 40 percent throughout the entire papermaking process.
As part of the sustainability program "Papermaking for Life," Voith has set the goal of supporting a 90 percent recycling rate by 2030 through new fiber streams and an optimized recycling process.