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Juha Rouhiainen, (MSSc.), has been appointed Vice President, Investor Relations for the Metso Group. He will start in his new position on October 31, 2011 at the latest. Juha will report to Harri Nikunen, CFO.

Juha will join Metso from Neste Oil, a refining and marketing company, where he has worked as Director, Investor Relations.

Metso is a global supplier of sustainable technology and services for mining, construction, power generation, automation, recycling and the pulp and paper industries. We have about 29,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

For further information, please contact:
Harri Nikunen, CFO, Metso Corporation, tel. +358 20 484 3010

Metso’s Wuxi Service Center for the pulp and paper industry in China celebrated its 10 years of operation on August 25, 2011. The center was opened in 2001 and started with 60 employees. Since then, the number of employees has grown to 150 committed professionals and the roll service capacity of the center has been doubled through an extension in 2007. As a result, the center can now serve a wider customer base and offer more flexible and faster service.

Guo Haiquan, Chairman, HNIC Dahe Paper Co., Ltd. (left), Jari Koikkalainen, President, Metso’s Paper and Fiber Technology, China, Xie Daorong, General Manager, Services, Metso Paper (China) Co., Ltd and Hong Yanwei, Wuxi New District CPC Working Committee, Deputy director of CMC, celebrating the 10 years of operation of Wuxi Service Center.

Located in Jiangsu Province, about 100 kilometers west of Shanghai, the Wuxi Service Center provides advanced machinery maintenance and process development services. The center has a fully-equipped roll service workshop providing roll covers and mechanical roll maintenance for all types of rolls. In addition, the center offers replacement rolls and full-scale services for spare parts and tailored consumables, such as doctoring products.

To support the customers' production and maintenance operations, the Wuxi Service Center offers specialized maintenance services and also more comprehensive cooperation including service agreements. In addition to extensive backup for Metso’s existing installations in China, the center’s services are also available for other makes of fiber and paper making machinery.

Strengthening local service operations is a vital part of Metso's continuing commitment and support to the Chinese pulp and paper industry. In line with this commitment, Metso has steadily been increasing its local presence in China. The latest additions to the service center network are the Guangzhou Service Center in Guangdong Province and the new Zibo Service Center in Shandong Province.

Metso will supply two containerboard machines to Anhui Shanying Paper Industry Co. Ltd. in the City of Ma’anshan in Anhui Province, China. The start-up of PM 6 is scheduled for the second and that of PM 5 for the third quarter of 2013. The value of the order will not be disclosed. A typical value of two containerboard lines varies from EUR 100 to 150 million, depending on the scope of delivery and the production capacity.

Metso’s delivery will include two complete 8.60-m-wide (wire) containerboard machines from headbox to winder. The deliveries will also include machine clothing, automation systems and a wide range of process systems. This kind of an extensive overall delivery package from the same supplier enables the design of highly energy-efficient production lines.

Anhui Shanying Paper Industry Co. Ltd. was established in 1957 and is the biggest paper and board producer in the Anhui Province, with an annual capacity of 900,000 tonnes of kraftliner.

Technical information

The new PM 6 will be equipped with two winders. It utilizes gap technology which enables a new, higher production speed category for board. The production speed will be 1,500 m/min. PM 6 will produce fluting and testliner grades in the basis weight range of 50 –110 g/m². The daily production capacity will be approximately 1,540 tonnes.

The new PM 5 will be equipped with three headboxes. The production speed will be 1,100 m/min. The line will produce kraftliner and testliner grades in the basis weight range of 90 –175 g/m². The daily production capacity will be approximately 1,380 tonnes.

source: metso pulp and paper

IDCON, Inc and Metso announces the date of March 12-15, 2012 for the 24th Pulp and Paper Reliability & Maintenance Conference. The conference will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The PPRM conference brings together industry leaders and maintenance professionals in a “How-To” environment with workshops and keynote addresses.

Christer Idhammar, founder and CEO of IDCON, Inc. stated “The Pulp and Paper Reliability & Maintenance conference is specifically tailored to the pulp and paper operations and maintenance professionals seeking practical, easy to apply advice and solutions to quickly improve the bottom line.”

“The Pulp and Paper Reliability and Maintenance event draws a very high quality attendance of mill operations and maintenance management. Metso has always been impressed by the presentations and hands on approach of this conference. Needless to say we are quite pleased to be closely associated to this event. ” Eric Tetreault, VP of Marketing and Communications with Metso affirmed.

“We are making the conference even more personalized by inviting pulp and paper maintenance and operations professionals to participate in a “What You Want” online survey which will have a direct impact on the conference” says Idhammar.

For more information about the conference and to take the survey visit the Pulp and Paper Reliability & Maintenance Conference website at www.pprm.net .

Metso will supply a major board machine rebuild for the Kemsley mill of DS SmithPaper in the United Kingdom. The start-up of the rebuilt BM 3 board machine is scheduled for the second quarter of 2012. The value of the order will not be disclosed.

Metso's delivery will include rebuilds of the forming, press and dryer sections. Additionally, Metso’s delivery will comprise a new ValSizer film sizer and a new ValSoft softnip calender. Metso’s scope also includes all installation work related to the rebuild. The rebuild will help the Kemsley mill ensure their top-quality board production. The BM 3 board machine produces high-quality testliners, and some specialty board grades in the basis weight range of 120 to 220 g/m².

DS SmithPaper is an international supplier of recycled packaging and Europe’s leading office products wholesaler with a turnover of about EUR 2.4 billion per annum and over 12,000 employees. DS SmithPaper operates in a number of countries in Europe, and also in the USA, Australia and New Zealand.

source: metso pulp and paper

“Working as one to be number one in pulp and paper”

Metso’s Paper and Fiber Technology segment (PFT) will have a new organization. From October 1, 2011, PFT will comprise geographical areas and global businesses: the areas will be North America, South America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), China and Asia Pacific and the business lines will be Paper, Fiber and Services.

“The new organization is essential for putting PFT’s new strategy into effect. With these arrangements we can work effectively as one to strengthen our position as supplier of the most competitive technology and services for the pulp and paper industry globally,” says Pasi Laine, President of PFT.

“By strengthening our area operations we can get closer to our customers and be able to serve the pulp and paper industry even better. With the new, dedicated Services business line we can offer a full range of services from one organization, enabling the other businesses to focus on providing even more competitive ranges of capital products.”

Appointments

Jari Vähäpesola, head of Paper business line
Mikael Sundqvist, acting head of Fiber business line
Jukka Tiitinen, head of Services business line

Bill Bohn, acting head of North America
Celso Tacla, head of South America
Hannu Mälkiä, head of EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa)
Jari Koikkalainen, head of China and coordination of Asia Pacific.

PFT’s support functions will continue to be:
Finance, HR, IT and now also the Legal function, headed by Kari Saarinen
Strategic and Operation development, headed by Mikko Siiteri
Marketing and Communications, headed by Ilkka Hiirsalmi
Quality and Environment, headed by Kari Karhama
IPR and Technology coordination, headed by Jouko Yli-Kauppila

Effective date

The effective date for the new organization and the appointments is October 1, 2011.

Metso will supply six TwinRoll Evolution wash presses with related additional services and equipment to four Swedish pulp mills. The wash presses, scheduled to start up between end of 2011 and mid 2012, will help the mills to increase their production capacity, optimize the fiberline and reduce the environmental impact.

To Södra Cell Mörrum pulp mill Metso will supply two new TwinRoll Evolution wash presses as a part of the mill’s investment to convert their line1 to dissolving pulp production. At full capacity Södra Cell Mörrum will produce 170,000 tonnes of dissolving pulp based on hardwood. Metso’s delivery will also include rebuild of two old presses, basic engineering and site services.

To Rottneros Vallviks Bruk AB Metso will deliver two TwinRoll Evolution wash presses, basic engineering and site services. The new wash presses will allow Vallvik to reduce the effluent flow from the bleach plant to the new biological water treatment plant.

To Korsnäs AB pulp mill in Gävle Metso will deliver a TwinRoll Evolution wash press, rebuild of existing oxygen stage, piping, basic and detail engineering and site services. The new Metso equipment will allow Korsnäs to optimize the fiberline operation which will improve the quality of their pulp.

To Korsnäs AB pulp mill in Frövi Metso will deliver a TwinRoll Evolution wash press, basic engineering and site services. The new wash press will replace an old wash press before the paper machine.

Metso's patented TwinRoll Evolution wash press is the fifth generation in a line of wash presses first introduced over 50 years ago in 1954. The new presses are unique in combining Metso’s proven machinery, process know-how and state of the art automation.

The Metso-supplied high quality art fine paper line PM 6 to Shouguang MeiLun Paper Co., Ltd. in Shouguang, Shandong province in China started up successfully on June 30, 2011.

PM 6 includes a complete OptiConcept paper making line from headbox to reel, as well as two winders. It produces doublecoated woodfree paper within the basis weight range of 70-128 g/m². The annual maximum production capacity of the 11.15-m-wide (wire) line is around 800,000 tonnes and the design speed 2,000 m/min. The paper making line has been equipped with latest Metso technology: OptiFormer SB forming section, OptiFlo Pro headbox and OptiDry Twin drying technology.

Shouguang MeiLun Paper is part of Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Limited, one of the biggest paper producers in China. The group is made up of more than 10 subsidiaries with a production capacity of 4 million tonnes per year.

Metso and Amcor Packaging (Australia) Pty Ltd have executed an agreement for the supply of mill maintenance services for Amcor’s Botany mill B9 board making line in New South Wales, Australia. The value of the agreement will not be disclosed.

The B9 containerboard production line at the Botany mill will be supplied by Metso and it is scheduled to start up in mid 2012. This main order for the line was received from Amcor and published in 2008.

With this multi-year mill maintenance agreement, which became effective as of July 12, 2011, Metso will assume full responsibility for the establishment of maintenance operations, mill maintenance services and management of improvement projects for the stock and paper production facilities as well as the mill utilities at the Botany mill.

The Metso mill maintenance model optimizes the use of proactive, condition-based maintenance and is based on Metso's streamlined reliability centered maintenance (RCM). The model ensures the highest possible equipment efficiency and cost optimization.

Amcor Packaging (Australia) Pty Ltd is part of Amcor Limited. Amcor Limited is a global packaging manufacturer offering a broad range of plastic, fibre, metal and glass packaging products, along with packaging-related services. It has annual sales of about EUR 9 billion and 35,000 employees worldwide, through more than 300 manufacturing sites it operates in 43 countries.

The Metso-relocated newsprint machine, PM 1, of Guangdong Huatai Paper Co., Ltd. in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province in China successfully started up on May 25, 2011.

Metso’s delivery package comprised engineering and supervision services for dismantling, packing, installation and start-up of the relocated paper machine line. The delivery also included a new two-loop deinking line with reject handling which will provide the stock for the paper machine. The line has a drum pulper with improved mechanical construction and main drive design together with Metso’s new linear cell flotation technology for main and post flotation.

The 5.56-m-wide (trim) PM 1 has an annual dimensional production capacity of close to 200,000 tonnes of newsprint within the basis weight range of 42 to 48 g/m². The paper machine design speed is 1,800 m/min.

Reconditioning, rebuilding and eventual relocating of entire production lines is part of Metso’s service offering for paper machines. It combines machine rebuilding business, project management and automation solutions.

Huatai Group produces newsprint, uncoated fine paper, coated art paper and tissue with an annual capacity exceeding 3.0 million tonnes. Guangdong Huatai Paper Co. Ltd. is a member of the Huatai Group.