Flowserve Corporation announced that its operation in Brazil has been selected to supply all ball sector control valves, ball valves and butterfly valves for the new Klabin mill (Project Puma) located in the city of Ortigueira, Paraná state, southern Brazil. In total, more than 1500 rotary control and automated on/off valves will be supplied by Flowserve to the Klabin Puma Project. These include products under the NAF, PMV, Atomac and Worcester brands. The valves will be included as part of supply agreements with a number of different participating engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors.
Klabin is one of the world’s largest packaging paper producers, exporting to more than 60 countries. The new mill will have an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tons of pulp. The Puma Project is the third major project in Brazil in the past six to seven years where Flowserve has been providing all of the critical service rotary control and on/off valves. In order to provide dedicated support to its customers in the first two mills, a QRC was opened in Três Lagoas in 2010. The valves are due to be shipped between April and December 2015.
