ESPOO - Textiles and nonwovens machinery manufacturer Valmet is to install new filter fabric manufacturing in Pune, India in a bid to better serve its customers and improve delivery times of filter fabrics to the Asia Pacific and Middle East areas.

Announcing the investment, Tero Kokko, vice president, Fabrics Business Unit, Valmet, said the investment included manufacturing equipment for filter fabric production that will start operation in the second quarter of 2021.

“This investment gives us the necessary assets to further develop our services close to customers and strengthen our position in the market," said Kokko. "It also ensures our capacity for the coming years to deliver filter fabrics that respond to customer needs for maximized reliability and optimized performance of their production process.”

Valmet is major supplier of filter fabrics and industrial textiles for the mining and chemical, dry filtration and laundry industries.

It also offers pulp mills, tissue, board and paper production lines, as well as power plants for bioenergy production.