Valmet and Fabio Perini have established an Industrial Internet ecosystem partnership to strengthen collaboration in the tissue industry. The target is to allow tissue producers and converters to work together more efficiently, and to exchange knowledge and resources for the benefit of their customers.

The partnership combines Valmet's comprehensive tissue making technology and process optimization know-how with Fabio Perini's strong expertise in complete solutions for converting and packaging machines as well as in the converting process and technology. The two companies' solid expertise combined with data from tissue mills and converting plants will provide a new dimension to tissue mill optimization.

The collaboration aims at providing an unbroken chain of production data from the tissue machine to the converting line and utilizing artificial intelligence-driven applications in the tissue production process to make the converting operations downstream more efficient. This will bring significant mill-level quality and efficiency improvements for tissue producers and converters.

Fabio Perini S.p.A. with the brands Fabio Perini, Casmatic and Concept X, is specialized in the production of machinery, lines and integrated systems, for the converting and packaging of tissue paper, for a wide range of products such as toilet rolls, kitchen towels, industrial rolls.

Valmet is a leading global developer and supplier of process technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries.