Valmet's delivery includes cooking and fiberlines, an evaporation plant, a recovery boiler with optimizers, ash treatment and a white liquor plant.
Oct. 22, 2026 - Valmet is delivering key technology for Century Sunshine's new Rizhao pulp mill that is being built in Shandong province in China. Valmet's delivery includes cooking and fiberlines, an evaporation plant, a recovery boiler with optimizers, ash treatment and a white liquor plant.
The new pulp mill is designed to have an annual capacity of 1.2 million tonnes of hardwood or softwood pulp and 400,000 tonnes of softwood pulp.
Valmet said the value of the order exceeds EUR 100 million.
"This project is at the core of our strategy to improve our self-sufficiency in raw material supply and meet the evolving needs of customers in the Chinese market," said Jeff Cheng, Vice President, Century Sunshine. "We chose Valmet as a partner for this project based on our positive previous experiences and their ability to meet our project needs both regarding technology and our investment budget."
Andreas Michalik, Vice President, Pulp Mills, Pulp, Energy and Circularity Business Area, Valmet, pointed out, "The new Century Sunshine Rizhao mill will produce fluff, dissolving, softwood and hardwood pulp, and is an excellent example of product differentiation to meet the growing market needs with Valmet's full scope offering. The mill features the latest cooking technology, a high-power recovery boiler with leading optimization and safety features, and electrostatic precipitator for efficient dust emissions reduction."
Valmet's delivery for the new Century Sunshine Rizhao mill includes complete cooking and fiberlines, and the recovery island. There will be two parallel cooking and fiberlines, one of which is a Valmet Continuous Cooking swing line producing bleached softwood or hardwood pulp, and another line producing bleached softwood pulp aimed for fluff and dissolving pulp production. The lines feature Valmet TwinRoll Press-based washing and screening as well as White Liquor Oxidation.
The recovery island consists of an Evaporation plant with Valmet Tubel technology, a high-power Recovery Boiler, an Ash Crystallization plant, a Recausticizing plant and two Lime Kilns with integrated Biomass Dryers and Gasifiers. Safe and efficient operations of the recovery boiler are secured with Valmet Electrostatic Precipitators (ESP), Valmet Smelt Spout Robot, Optimizers and Furnace Camera. The lime kilns are equipped with Valmet ESP and are designed to use biomass as fuel, making the mill fossil-fuel free.
The new pulp mill is expected to start up in June 2028.
Valmet is a global technology leader in serving process industries. Valmet is backed by more than 225 years of industrial experience and a global team of 18,500 professionals. In 2025, Valmet's net sales totaled approximately EUR 5.2 billion. The company's head office is in Espoo, Finland.
SOURCE: Valmet