Valmet

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Valmet Oyj is a Finnish industrial technology company focused on providing automation systems, technologies and services for the pulp, paper and bioenergy production industries. It has operations in over 40 countries and employs around 17,000 people, with headquarters in Espoo, Finland, and is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki stock exchange.

Key moments

1999Merged with Rauma to form Metso Corporation
December 2013Demerged from Metso Corporation, revived as Valmet Oyj, focusing on pulp, paper and energy businesses
2021Reported annual net sales of approximately €3.9 billion

Valmet operates in the global industrial process equipment and automation sector, with key competitors including:

Andritz AG: Austrian firm providing similar pulp, paper and energy industry solutions
Voith: German industrial manufacturer with broad paper and automation product lines
Metso Outotec: Result of post-Valmet demerger Metso merging with Outotec, focuses on mining and minerals processing
SPX Technologies: US-based industrial equipment supplier with overlapping process automation businesses

Andritz AG: Austrian firm providing similar pulp, paper and energy industry solutions
Voith: German industrial manufacturer with broad paper and automation product lines
Metso Outotec: Result of post-Valmet demerger Metso merging with Outotec, focuses on mining and minerals processing
SPX Technologies: US-based industrial equipment supplier with overlapping process automation businesses

Valmet is a globally renowned specialized industrial technology brand deeply rooted in the process industry, widely recognized for delivering end-to-end automation, equipment and service solutions tailored for the pulp, paper and bioenergy sectors. Its brand equity is built on decades of verified operational reliability, deep domain expertise, and consistent focus on supporting customers to improve production efficiency and advance their low-carbon transformation targets, creating extremely high customer loyalty and high switching cost barriers across its massive global installed base of industrial assets.

In recent years, Valmet has strategically expanded its public brand positioning beyond traditional pulp and paper manufacturing markets, highlighting its leading work in circular economy industrial systems, advanced bioenergy infrastructure and smart connected factory automation. This repositioning has successfully extended its brand relevance to new fast-growing green industrial segments, attracting a new generation of clients in the renewable energy space that had not previously engaged with the legacy Valmet brand ecosystem.

As a publicly listed Finnish industrial enterprise with operations covering over 40 markets, Valmet’s brand reputation is closely tied to the globally respected reputation for high-precision, durable Nordic industrial engineering. Its consistent delivery on large-scale flagship cross-border projects has cemented its status as one of the top two most trusted premium brands in its core niche, with brand recognition far outpacing smaller regional competitors that lack comparable full lifecycle service capabilities.

Brand leadership

Score: 92/100

Valmet ranks among the top two undisputed market leaders in the global pulp and paper process technology segment, holding a leading share of high-value large-capitalization project contracts across all major production regions. Its technical specifications and solution designs are widely referenced as industry benchmarks by major global process industry operators, giving it disproportionate influence over evolving industry technology standards.

Stakeholder interaction

Score: 86/100

The brand maintains deep, multi-decade collaborative relationships with thousands of large industrial clients worldwide, with recurring post-sales maintenance, upgrade and digital optimization contracts that drive consistent ongoing two-way engagement. It also maintains active ongoing partnerships with leading global industry trade bodies and research institutions, keeping its brand closely aligned with emerging customer sustainability and operational priorities.

Brand momentum

Score: 83/100

Valmet has delivered steady consistent order growth for its sustainable technology lines over the past five years, with particularly strong rising demand for its next-generation bioenergy, carbon capture and non-food fiber processing solutions. This strong performance in new high-growth segments has built very positive brand traction outside its traditional core paper manufacturing market, attracting new investor and industry stakeholder attention.

Brand stability

Score: 90/100

Since its formal listing on Nasdaq Helsinki in 2013, Valmet has maintained highly stable low-volatility revenue performance through multiple global industrial market cycles, with no major public brand safety scandals or product recall crises over the past 15 years. Its highly diversified global client base spanning dozens of countries and multiple unrelated industry verticals effectively insulates the brand from isolated regional market downturn risks.

Brand heritage and age

Score: 88/100

While the modern standalone Valmet corporate entity was established in 2013 following the demerger of Metso, its underlying engineering heritage and operational legacy stretches back more than 200 years to the earliest origins of Finland's national industrialization. This long continuous track record of industrial engineering excellence carries very high credibility among veteran process industry operators, many of whom have worked with Valmet technology across multiple generations of production facilities.

Industry brand profile

Score: 91/100

Valmet holds an elite premium tier brand profile in the global pulp, paper and bioenergy technology sector, regularly featured as a headline keynote participant at every major global industry conference, and frequently cited as a leading technical expert reference in top peer-reviewed industrial process publications. Its brand name is effectively synonymous with high-performance, low-environmental-impact process solutions within its core niche.

Global brand reach

Score: 87/100

The brand operates localized sales, service and manufacturing hubs across more than 40 countries, with native-language local support teams that deliver regionally adapted solutions tailored to local market regulatory and operational conditions. Valmet maintains near-universal brand awareness across every major pulp and paper producing market covering Europe, North America, South America and the Asia-Pacific region.

This brand strength assessment leverages AI-powered structured reasoning to evaluate relative brand performance and generate illustrative brand value estimates for reference and contextual use only. All derived figures presented are non-audited, for demonstration purposes, and do not constitute formally verified official brand valuation results. To access fully audited, rigorously validated official brand value data for Valmet Oyj, please contact the World Brand Lab directly to review their formal published authoritative valuation outputs.

Overview

Valmet Oyj

type	Public
traded as	omx: HEX98819 VALMT
location city	Espoo
location country	Finland
key people	Pekka Vauramo (chairman)‡R1R‡ Thomas Hinnerskov (president and CEO)
industry	Technology, services & automation solutions for pulp, paper, energy sectors and various process industries
revenue	€5,216 million (2025) ‡R2R‡

num employees	18,500 (2025) ‡R2R‡

homepage	www.valmet.com

Valmet Oyj is a Finnish developer and supplier of process technologies, automation systems and services for the pulp, paper, energy industries. Flow control serves a wider base of process industries.

History

1999–2012 Valmet and Rauma merge as Metso

At the end of 2009, Metso acquired Tamfelt Corporation, one of the world's leading suppliers of technical textiles.[3][4]

Valmet 2020–

At the end of June 2020, Neles was separated from Metso. The State of Finland sold its share of 15 per cent to Valmet.[5] In mid-July, the Swedish company Alfa Laval made an offer to buy Neles. Also Valmet started buying Neles stock. By the autumn, Valmet owned nearly 30 per cent of the stock. Alfa Laval only received the support of a third of Neles owners for its takeover bid, and withdrew from the competition in November.[5]

In January 2021, Valmet reported that it would supply the mills of the Swedish company Renewcell with equipment to produce dissolving pulp from recycled clothes and textiles.[6] In May, Valmet announced that it would deliver drying technology to Spinnova, which produces textile fiber from cellulose.[6] Valmet equipment for the textile industry is in high demand in Europe, because the collection of discarded textiles for recycling must be organized in the EU countries by 2025. Valmet had been developing recycling technology with Renewcell for years, and the companies constructed a pilot plant and a factory in Sundsvall together.[6] In July 2021, Valmet and Neles agreed to merge.[7] Neles owners obtained 18.8 per cent of the merging company. The companies’ synergies were considered to be substantial during the transaction. Neles was thought to help increase sales in automation systems, while its products were also to be sold to the paper industry.[5]

Neles merged into Valmet in April 2022, becoming Valmet's fifth business line, Flow Control.[8] The companies had several managers and employees who knew each other from Metso days. After the merger, the company had 17,000 employees, 3,000 of whom came from Neles.[9]

In February 2024, it was announced that President and CEO Pasi Laine would be retiring at the end of September 2024. Danish CEO of Mediq, Thomas Hinnerskov, was chosen by Valmet's board of directors to lead the company as the new President and CEO.[10]

In October 2024, Valmet announced that is it cutting 112 jobs to improve "profitability and competitiveness of the business operations.".[11] This comes after a net profit of 157 million euros in Q1-Q2 2024.[12]

References

Valmet's Board of Directors www.valmet.com, retrieved 2025-08-13^
Valmet’s Financial Statements Review 2025, Financial statements Valmet, retrieved 6 February 2026^
Metso-acquired Tamfelt Corp. established as Fabrics business line