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

jari.aittakari@glocell.info

+358 45 858 8300