Pavilion Technologies

Pavilion Pulp & Paper Solution

Pavilion Technologies is a world leader in providing control and optimization solutions to the pulp & paper industry. Pavilion’s applications help leading paper companies such as International Paper, Klabin, and Weyerhaeuser significantly improve product quality, reduce off-spec product, and meet regulatory reporting requirements, resulting in millions of dollars per year in reduced costs and increased revenues.

Paper Industry Challenges

For the past two decades, pulp & paper manufacturers around the world have faced a series of challenges to remain competitive in the marketplace. A flurry of modernization activity saw a new generation of bigger, faster, state-of-the-art paper machines, capable of producing better quality paper and the same tonnage as up to 4 older, slower machines. This new capacity caused price pressure on the finished products, resulting in many smaller producers closing or shifting production to other grades. At the same time, increasing energy and environmental compliance costs have put further pressure on profit margins. Today’s commodity grade producers must be able to maintain maximum production rates and minimize off-spec without sacrificing quality. Specialty grade producers must be able to make small runs of a wide range of products efficiently and change grades quickly with minimal broke.

Pavilion Pulp & Paper Solution

Pavilion’s Pulp & Paper Industry solution consists of multiple industry specific applications, powered by Pavilion8 technology. Pavilion8 is an integrated software suite providing modeling, control, monitoring, analysis, visualization, and integration capabilities. Pavilion8 applications control and optimize the most critical manufacturing processes and are the key to taking business operations to the next level. Learn more about Pavilion8

• Soft Sensor® – Property Measurement
• Sensor Validation
• Continuous Digester Control
• ClO2 Generator Control
• Lime Kiln Control
• Causticizing Efficiency Control
• Recovery Evaporator Control
• Recovery Boiler Control

The applications can be used individually to address specific business drivers – like energy reduction or increased production - or in combination for greater total value and profitability. Pavilion’s solutions are proven to deliver a faster time to value and greater sustained value with lower maintenance costs than traditional linear control solutions.

In addition to our Model Predictive Control (MPC)-based solutions, Pavilion is a world leader in helping customers address their environmental issues. Our predictive emissions monitoring (PEMs) models have been certified by the EPA and used in a wide range of industries to meet emissions monitoring requirements for NOx, acid rain, and other regulations. Pavilion also provides a complete environmental monitoring and control application to provide real-time information as well as summary reports for governmental regulatory agencies.

Pulp & Paper Solution Benefits

Pavilion’s Pulp & Paper Solution provides tangible benefits to our customers to allow them to achieve their business objectives. Whether the application is controlling digester chip level, optimizing recovery boiler operation, or providing a continuous measurement of sheet strength properties, our ValueFirst customer engagement approach guarantees predictable results typically within the following ranges:

• Production increases of 2-10%

• Reduction in energy costs of 5-10%
• Product variability reductions of 20-50%
• Reduce fiber and chemical additive usage by 1-5%
• Reduction in off-spec production during grade change of 10-20%