IBG
Valmet South Africa

3 Dumat Place, Mount Edgecombe, Durban

tel:  
+27 31 539 8640
cell:  
+27 83 284 2878
email:  
daniel.roberts@valmet.com
url:  
www.valmet.com

Iso Certification ISO 9001

Core business offering: Sells and services quality control systems, distributed control systems and specialty analysers and measurement products to the pulp, paper and corrugating industries, as well as the wastewater, non-wovens and energy sectors.


Mount Edgecombe, Durban
Knoetze, Marius
National Service Manager, Process Automation Syst
marius.knoetze@valmet.com
Roberts, Daniel
Solutions Sales Manager, Pulp and Paper Solutions
daniel.roberts@valmet.com
Dune Engineering
Cape Town
tel: +27 21 552 2511
fax: +27 21 522 2566
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Westville, Durban
tel: +27 31 262 6299
fax: +27 86 519 1733
Valmet
(Manufacturer)
Section - Data Acquisition & Remote Control
-Machine health monitoring
-Monitors
- vibration
Section - Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation
-In-stream/in situ
- Angular alignment
- Bearing
-Handheld/portable
- Vibration/balance
-Condition monitoring
- Remote site condition monitoring
-Performance monitoring
- Lubrication
- Process/production
Section - Process Control & Manufacturing Technologies
-DCS
-Emergency shut-down systems
-Entry level DCS
-Networked controllers
-PACs - Programmable Automation Controllers
-Machine vision sensors
-Machine vision systems
-Visual inspection systems
-Conductivity
-Vibration
Section - Services & Systems
-Contractors
- Factory automation
-Programmers
- DCS
-System integration/consulting
- Factory automation
- Information systems
- Process control
- Scada/DCS/PLC
-Boiler/furnace control
-Energy management
-Environmental control & monitoring
-Kiln control
-Laboratory control & management
-Mining & metals
-Petrochemical
-Pulp & paper
-Sugar
-Water & waste water
Section - Test, Measurement & Calibration
-Analysers
- Ash content
- Basis weight, consistency
- Suspended solids
-Conductivity
-Redox measurement
News from Valmet South Africa:
Press technology enhances performance and product quality at tissue machines
April 2026, Motion Control & Drives, Valmet South Africa

Valmet has been selected to replace five existing tissue machine shoe presses with its state-of-the-art Advantage ViscoNip press technology for Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing in China.

Valmet’s automation powers world’s largest air-to-water heat pump
I&C February 2026, PLCs, DCSs & Controllers, Valmet South Africa

Valmet will supply an automation system for Helen’s Patola air-to-water heat pump plant and two electric boilers currently being built in Helsinki, Finland. When completed, the air-to-water heat pump plant will be the largest in the world with a full heating production capacity around 30 MW.

Decarbonising a heat and power plant
I&C February 2026, Temperature Measurement , Valmet South Africa

Valmet is delivering a boiler fuel conversion for a combined heat and power plant in Poland. After modernisation, coal will be replaced entirely with certified forest biomass supplied by local providers.

New energy-efficient evaporation line for dissolving pulp production
November 2025, PLCs, DCSs & Controllers, Valmet South Africa

Valmet will deliver a new evaporation line to Altri Biotek mill in Portugal. This delivery is part of Altri’s €75 million project to convert the Biotek mill to produce dissolving pulp for the textile industry.

Valmet modernises turbine automation
November 2025, PLCs, DCSs & Controllers, Valmet South Africa

Valmet has received an order to deliver a comprehensive replacement of plant DCS and turbine control systems at Ennatuurlijk’s combined cycle power plant in the Netherlands.

Valmet’s supplies DCS to Europe’s largest electric boiler plant
January 2026, PLCs, DCSs & Controllers, Valmet South Africa

Valmet will supply an automation system to Helen’s Hanasaari electric boiler plant and a thermal accumulator being built in Helsinki, Finland. Once completed, it will be Europe’s largest electric boiler plant.

Automation system for sustainable energy plant
May 2024, Electrical Power & Protection, Valmet South Africa

Valmet will deliver a comprehensive Valmet DNA automation system to Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant (LSEP) currently under construction in Northwich, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

Full-scale central control room simulator
April 2024, IT in Manufacturing, Valmet South Africa

Valmet will deliver a full-scale central control room simulator to Nordic Ren-Gas, the leading Nordic green hydrogen and e-methane developer in Finland.

Metsä Fibre’s new bioproduct mill
October 2023, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking, Valmet South Africa

Metsä Fibre’s bioproduct mill in Finland was recently successfully commissioned. The material, environmental and energy efficient mill will not use any fossil fuels, and it will produce two terawatt hours of renewable electricity per year. Valmet’s technology and automation contributed to the sustainable operation and high-quality end product.

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