{"id":11336,"date":"2023-09-09T05:41:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T05:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/?p=11336"},"modified":"2023-09-15T06:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T06:37:47","slug":"valmet-to-upgrade-automation-at-smurfit-kappa-in-verzuolo-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/09\/valmet-to-upgrade-automation-at-smurfit-kappa-in-verzuolo-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Valmet to upgrade automation at Smurfit Kappa in Verzuolo, Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valmet will upgrade the current water treatment automation solution at Smurfit Kappa\u2019s Cartiera di Verzuolo mill in northern Italy with a Valmet DNA Distributed Control System (DCS). The new system will replace aging third-party&nbsp;Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and&nbsp;integrate the water treatment control to the existing, mill-wide Valmet DNA automation system. The upgrade also includes extending the automation to the anaerobic treatment unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The order was included in Valmet&#8217;s orders received of the second quarter 2023. The delivery will take place in March 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Valmet has a long and successful track record of supplying and upgrading automation systems in Verzuolo since the PM 9 delivered by Valmet in 2001. This upgrade improves the automation integration in the mill, thus ensuring better scalability and&nbsp;information management,&#8221; says&nbsp;<strong>Maurizio Martinelli,<\/strong>&nbsp;Customer Support Manager, Automation Systems business line, Valmet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Technical information about the delivery<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The delivery includes Valmet DNA ACN MRN&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valmet.com\/automation\/distributed-control-system\/controllers-io\/controllers\/\">Controllers<\/a>&nbsp;with Profinet and Profibus links. Valmet&#8217;s efficient ACN industrial controller family ensures a reliable platform for all process controls and connectivity to external systems. As a major benefit of the upgrade, existing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valmet.com\/automation\/distributed-control-system\/controllers-io\/io\/\">I\/O hardware<\/a>&nbsp;of the Valmet DNA system in the mill scales up for the new needs and can remain unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valmet will upgrade the current water treatment automation solution at Smurfit Kappa\u2019s Cartiera di Verzuolo mill in northern Italy with a Valmet DNA Distributed Control System (DCS). The new system will replace aging third-party&nbsp;Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and&nbsp;integrate the water treatment control to the existing, mill-wide Valmet DNA automation system. The upgrade also includes extending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-11336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corrugated-folding-carton","tag-valmet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11338,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336\/revisions\/11338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}