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The Metso-supplied fine paper production line, PM 1, of Zhanjiang Chenming Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. came successfully on stream on September 1, 2011 at the company’s greenfield pulp and paper mill in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, China.

The 11.15-m-wide PM 1 has an annual dimensional production capacity of close to 600,000 tonnes of wood free uncoated printing paper within the basis weight range of 45 to 120 g/m2. The design speed is 2,000 m/min.

Geng GuangLin, Director and Deputy General Manager of Zhanjiang Chenming Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. is satisfied with Metso and the co-operation during the project.

Metso’s delivery included a complete OptiConcept paper machine from headbox to reel, a comprehensive Metso automation system package, air and chemical systems as well as two WinDrum Pro winders.

The new paper machine comprises an OptiFlo Pro headbox, an OptiFormer shoe and blade gap former and an OptiPress two-shoe nip press. The paper machine includes a SymRun drying section with OptiDry Twin and OptiDry Horizontal impingement drying units for improved runnability and increased drying capacity. The new PM 1 also comprises an OptiSizer film sizer, an OptiSoft SlimLine double-soft nip calender, an OptiReel Plus reel and an OptiCart parent reel cart.

“The new PM 1 features a lot of new technology. Right from the start-up, the operation of the line has met the targets. In particular, the paper quality has been good,” says Mark Singler, Metso’s Paper Technology Manager.

Zhanjiang Chenming is part of Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Limited, one of the biggest paper producers in China. In 2010, the company’s paper production capacity was over 4 million tons, turnover over EUR 2 billion and the number of employees approx. 17,000.

Metso has received an important automation order for Stora Enso Narew Sp.zo.o new containerboard production line at Ostroleka in Poland. The production line will produce 455.000 tonnes of light-weighted testliner per year. The EUR 285 million investment project is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 2013.

Metso´s delivery scope includes MetsoDNA Automation System, Process Info Management System, latest Web Inspection technology integrated with high speed Web Break Analysis system, Control and On/off-valves as well as Consistency transmitters and Field Instruments. The main shipments will take place during the third quarter of 2012. 

"We are very pleased about this extensive automation order and privileged to continue working with Stora Enso Narew professional team after the successful power plant project implementation," says Ari Pinjamaa, Regional Vice President, Metso.

Metso will supply a complete Advantage tissue machine for Fabrica De Papel San Francisco S.A. de C.V., in Mexicali, Mexico. The tissue production line will start up in the second quarter of 2013. The value of the order will not be disclosed. This kind of production line is typically valued at EUR 10-15 million depending on capacity and scope of delivery.

Metso’s scope of delivery will comprise a complete 2.6-m-wide Advantage tissue machine equipped with an OptiFlo II TIS headbox, a Metso Yankee cylinder, an Advantage AirCap yankee hood, sheet control, tail threading equipment, an Advantage WetDust dust management system and an Advantage SoftReel reel.

The delivery is a repeat order from Fabrica De Papel San Francisco. They now successfully operate two Advantage tissue machines at their Mexicali facility, one started up in 2006 and the other in 2009. The company’s PM 4 set a world speed record of 2,160 m/min in 2009 and their PM 5 achieved a record-breaking rapid start-up in 2009 reaching a production speed of 2,100 m/min only 12 days after start-up.

The new tissue line will use 100 % recycled fiber as raw material and will add another 30,000 tonnes per year of bathroom tissue, napkin and towel grades to the company’s existing production.

The order is included in Pulp, Paper and Power’s fourth quarter 2011 orders received.

Fabrica De Papel San Francisco now operates four tissue production lines and converting facilities, delivering tissue products for the Mexican market.

Metso’s management will host a pre-silent Q&A session prior to stepping into silent period. The purpose of these sessions is to serve all financial community parties equally and increase understanding of the earlier stated information by giving an opportunity to set questions to our management. No new information will be disclosed but the aim is to clarify information on our operations and operating environment. Therefore, we don’t intend to publish separate releases in connection with these events. 

Pre-silent Q&A session before 2011 Financial Statements Review publication
will be held on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at
3.00 p.m. EET (Helsinki), 
1:00 p.m. GMT (London), 
2:00 p.m. CET (Paris), 
8:00 a.m. EDT (New York). 

Metso’s CFO Harri Nikunen will be answering the questions. 

The Q&A session can be participated through conference call (please see the details below). Questions can be presented during the call or by sending questions in advance via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Wednesday, January 11 by 12:00 p.m. EET (Helsinki).

Conference call participants are requested to dial in few minutes prior to the start of the teleconference
• US:             +1 866 803 8344      
• Other countries:             +44 (0)207 1620 177      
• Access code: Metso

A replay of the conference call will be available for 14 days until January 26, 2012 at:
• US:             +1 954 334 0342      
• Other countries:             +44 (0)207 0314 064      
• Access code: 909 214

A transcript of the event will be available on our website on Friday, January 13, 2012.

Welcome to our pre-silent Q&A session!

Metso Corporation

Juha Rouhiainen
VP, Investor Relations

Metso and Stora Enso Corporation have signed an agreement on the single-drum conversion of Stora Enso’s Imatra Mills’ recovery boiler. The conversion of the recovery boiler will be completed in the fall of 2012. The value of the order will not be disclosed.

The upper and lower drum of the recovery boiler and the steam generating bank between them will be replaced by a new drum and separate boiler bank elements needed for heat recovery. At the same time, the second stage of the economizer will be rebuilt.

“The conversion will significantly extend the boiler’s lifetime and allow for a possible capacity increase in the future. In addition, the conversion will improve the boiler’s availability, secure safe operation and reduce maintenance costs. Further advantages offered by a single-drum conversion compared to replacing the existing design are a shorter downtime and the reliability of the solution,” says Jouni Koskinen, Sales Manager, Boiler Conversions, from Metso.

The recovery boiler was built in 1987 and its current capacity is about 1,700 metric tons of dry solids per day. The order is included in Energy and Environmental Technology’s fourth quarter 2011 orders received.

Stora Enso is the global rethinker of the packaging, paper and wood products industry. Stora Enso employs some 30 000 people worldwide, and our sales in 2010 amounted to EUR 10.3 billion.

Metso Paper Oy has sold its Valkeakoski, Finland -based workshop and the related equipment and screen basket manufacturing to MSP Engineering Oy and Hanlog Oy. The value of the deal (a transfer of undertaking) will not be disclosed. The deal will have no significant impact on Metso’s results.

The personnel of the operations being sold, 76 people in all, are transferring to the new employer as existing employees. A total of more than 300 people are employed at Metso’s entire Valkeakoski unit.

The deal includes the workshop and maintenance hall real estate, the related manufacturing machinery and equipment, the related office premises, and the areas of land associated with the operations being sold. The buyer will continue as a contract manufacturer for Metso.

The sale is part of Metso's Pulp, Paper and Power segment's work to develop its production structure in order to improve customer service amid the toughening global competition.

Metso has developed a new technology with which municipal and industrial wastewater plants are able to improve their performance and reduce the amount of chemicals used in sludge drying process by even up to one third. The potential users of this innovation include all large wastewater treatment plants in the world.

The new technology features an advanced online measurement system for processing sludge, which is an integral part of wastewater treatment. Thanks to a measurement system based on LED and laser technologies, it is now possible to separate dry solids and water from each other more accurately and efficiently than before. In this way, the amount of water treated at a plant can be significantly increased and the amount of chemicals used in the sludge drying process can be decreased by 30%.

In addition to higher capacity and lower chemical costs, savings are gained as the transportation costs of the dry solids separated from sludge decrease. The further use of the dewatered sludge in energy production is also significantly more efficient, as dewatered sludge contains less water than before.

“The new technology developed by Metso offers the world’s water treatment plants an opportunity to improve their performance and thus gain major cost savings. A large North American wastewater treatment plant has calculated that it saves even up to 30% in its annual USD 2.5 million chemical costs,” says Timo Rantala, Product Manager, Metso’s Automation business line.

Global potential

“In the first phase, the new technology will most probably interest especially large wastewater plants in Western Europe and North America, where the level of automation is already high. It is these plants that often have major capacity issues and are under pressure to save costs. Interest in these kinds of solutions is growing in Asia, too,” Rantala comments.

In the past five years, Metso has strengthened its role as an expert in wastewater treatment, and is now the market leader in microwave technology measurements used in treatment processes. The know-how is partly backed by decade-long development work, which Metso has carried out in the paper industry and whose results can also be utilized in wastewater treatment.

Metso will supply the world’s first commercial installation of LignoBoost technology to Domtar in North America. The equipment will be intergrated with the Plymouth North Carolina pulp mill. The LignoBoost process separates and collects lignin from pulping liquor. This order is an important breakthrough for Metso’s patented LignoBoost technology and provides the Plymouth NC mill with numerous benefits. The value of the order is not disclosed.

Separation of a portion of the mill’s total lignin production off-loads the recovery boiler and allows an increase in pulp production capacity. The lignin recovered will be used for internal and external applications.

“This project is a potential game changer for the Pulp & Paper industry because it will allow pulp mills to have a new more profitable value stream from a product that was traditionally burned in a recovery boiler,” says Gene Christiansen, General Manager – Business Development Innovations at Metso’s Power Business Line for North America in Charlotte, NC.

The LignoBoost project is based on the 24 ton per day demonstration plant in Bäckhammar in Sweden. The Bäckhammar plant is owned and operated by Innventia since 2006. In 2008 Metso acquired the LignoBoost Technology from Innventia and the companies have since then been working together on the commercialization of the process.

The LignoBoost plant will be in commercial operation in early 2013.The order is included in the Energy and Environmental Technology’s fourth quarter 2011 orders received.

Domtar Corporation is the largest integrated manufacturer and marketer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America and the second largest in the world based on production capacity, and is also a manufacturer of papergrade, fluff and specialty pulp. The Company designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide range of business, commercial printing and publishing as well as converting and specialty papers including recognized brands such as Cougar®, Lynx® Opaque Ultra, Husky® Opaque Offset, First Choice® and Domtar EarthChoice® Office Paper, part of a family of environmentally and socially responsible papers. Domtar also produces a complete line of incontinence care products and distributes washcloths marketed primarily under the Attends® brand name. Domtar owns and operates Ariva^TM, an extensive network of strategically located paper distribution facilities. The Company employs approximately 8,800 people. To learn more, visit www.domtar.com.

The Board of Directors of Metso has decided on a new share-based incentive plan for the Group’s top management. The aim of the new plan is to combine the objectives of the shareholders and the management in order to increase the value of the company, to commit the management to the company, and to offer them a competitive reward plan based on long-term shareholding in Metso.

The plan includes three performance periods, which are calendar years 2012, 2013 and 2014. Metso’s Board of Directors shall decide on the performance criteria, targets and participants in the beginning of each performance period. The plan is targeted to approximately 100 persons in Metso management for the performance period 2012.

The potential reward of the plan from the performance period 2012 is based on the net sales growth of the services business, return on capital employed (ROCE) before taxes and earnings per share (EPS).

The potential reward of the plan from the performance period 2012 will be paid at the end of an approximately two-year vesting period in 2015, partly in the company’s shares and partly in cash. The proportion to be paid in cash is intended to cover taxes and tax-related costs arising from the reward to the participants. If a participant’s employment or service ends for reasons relating to the participant before the reward payment, no reward will be paid. The reward for each performance period of the plan may not exceed 120 percent of a participant’s annual total base salary.

The potential rewards to be paid on the basis of the performance period 2012 will correspond to a maximum total of approximately 450,000 Metso shares. Final allocations and the maximum total number of shares will be decided in January 2012. The Metso shares to be transferred in possible rewards will be obtained in public trading, and therefore the incentive plan will have no diluting effect on the share value.