CLIENT NAME: Valio SEGMENT: Food and beverage Valio is the biggest food business in Finland by net turnover, and the market leader in all key dairy product groups in Finland.

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100 VACON® 100 DRIVES IN QUARK PRODUCTION AT VALIO
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100 VACON® 100 DRIVES
IN QUARK PRODUCTION AT VALIO
CLIENT NAME: Valio
SEGMENT: Food and beverage
PRODUCTS USED: VACON® 100
LOCATION: Seinäjoki, Finland

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100 VACON® 100 DRIVES IN QUARK PRODUCTION AT VALIO
KEY FACTS OF CLIENT:
• Valio is the market leader in all key dairy product groups
in Finland, and has numerous major consumer brands in its
portfolio.
• The Valio plant in Seinäjoki, capital of the province of
Southern Ostrobothnia in Finland, produces all Valio quarks.
• The Seinäjoki plant recently doubled its production capacity to
meet the increased demand for quark – a product that is high
in protein.
• In recent years, quarks have been the quickest-growing
product category in retail sales.

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100 VACON® 100 DRIVES IN QUARK PRODUCTION AT VALIO
CHALLENGE:
• The new requirements for Safe Torque Off (STO) functions to
improving work safety.

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100 VACON® 100 DRIVES IN QUARK PRODUCTION AT VALIO
SOLUTION:
• As the result of the strict standards and
risk analysis, an STO function is a must on
the quark production line to prevent the
motor from generating torque on the
motor shaft, which could cause
unintentional start-ups.
• The STO function is provided in the OPTBJ
board, which is easy to fit in the
VACON 100 range of drives.

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100 VACON® 100 DRIVES IN QUARK PRODUCTION AT VALIO
SOLUTION:
• VACON 100 is a versatile AC drive that
can be used in hundreds of different
applications.
• A separator is used for producing quark.
The pumps and mixers used by the
separator are controlled by VACON 100
AC drives.

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100 VACON® 100 DRIVES IN QUARK PRODUCTION AT VALIO
TESTIMONIAL:
“We chose the VACON 100 drive to control our quark production
line because of the new requirements for Safe Torque Off (STO)
functions and to improve work safety.”
“The VACON AC drives are great and our user experiences are
positive.”
Hannu Teräväinen, Teemu Takala, Pauli Parvi and Marko Vähäkoski,
Valio Seinäjoki plant
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