Pulp and Paper

Even the smallest power disturbances can affect product quality and production numbers in the pulp and paper industry. A consistent power supply helps you optimize processes while advanced protection solutions, including arc-flash detection, maintain equipment integrity and increase personnel safety.As you protect your critical assets to maximize uptime, you can also automate plant processes to increase efficiency and output while minimizing unplanned disruptions.In addition, with the necessity of onsite generation, paper mills must prioritize effective load management and grid interconnection. Proven SEL power management and control products and technology minimize outages and maintain power system reliability, resiliency, and security.

Protect and Automate Mill Operations

For over 40 years, industries around the world have trusted SEL solutions to keep essential systems running and automate processes to increase productivity. Pulp and paper production requires a continuous and reliable supply of power to maintain processes and protect capital investments.Explore our key offerings:

Protective relays that offer comprehensive protection, including arc-flash mitigation, for critical motors, onsite generation, and local substations.
Power management and control solutions for managing onsite generation, peak shaving, load shedding, and interconnection with the utility grid.
Power quality management solutions for monitoring energy usage and harmonics and optimizing power quality.
Rugged programmable logic controllers and automation solutions for monitoring and controlling power systems, pumps, and other critical processes.

SEL builds these products and solutions on the capabilities of our devices, which endure temperature ranges as wide as –40° to +85°C (–40° to +185°F) and exceed industry standards for performance in harsh operating conditions, such as humidity, corrosion, shock, electric stress, and electromagnetic interference. Data from decades of field performance verify that SEL devices minimize the need for repairs and replacements, making your systems more reliable and lowering the lifetime cost of ownership.

Discover the SEL Difference

Ten-Year WarrantySEL backs every product with a worldwide, ten-year warranty. If a product fails under warranty, we’ll repair or replace it at no cost.

The SEL warranty

Custom-Engineered SolutionsSEL solutions solve engineering challenges in industries around the globe. SEL Services can further customize, design, and deliver systems that provide the precise functionality you need.

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Local Support, Global ExpertiseTechnical support is available at no cost for the entire service life of every SEL product. With application engineers located around the world, we can provide expert support no matter where you are.

SEL quality, reliability, and ongoing support

World-Class ManufacturingWe design and manufacture our devices in factories we own and operate in the U.S.A. We prioritize vertical integration and supply chain security to ensure the quality, reliability, and availability of our products, because we realize how our supply chain affects yours.

Securing the supply chain

Short Lead TimesOthers measure lead time in weeks. SEL measures it in days. We keep lead times down with a robust manufacturing infrastructure, streamlined processes, supply chain risk management, and strategic vertical integration.

Products that ship within ten days