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Metso has signed an agreement with UPM Kymmene for the replacement of the ageing Quality Control System in Papeteries de Docelles (France). Start-up of the project is planned at the end of August 2011. The value of the replacement project will not be disclosed.

This replacement project concerns the PM1 in Docelles. The scope of supply will include two PaperIQ Select scanners. The first one will be installed at the reel and will be equipped with IQLaserCaliper sensor for the caliper measurement. The second scanner will be installed in size press.

With this new quality control system, Papeteries de Docelles will be able to make multivariable MD and CD controls together with color control. The system will also feature DNAhistorian and DNApaperMap applications for the history data and profiles storage.

Thanks to the accurate and stable measurements together with advanced controls featured by the PaperIQ Select quality control system, this investment will help UPM Kymmene – Papeteries de Docelles to improve performances of key indicators such as end-product quality. Furthermore, Papeteries de Docelles will benefit from local Metso’s expert service team to insure the continuous improvement of its production.

Papeteries de Docelles specializes in the production of printing and envelope papers and is situated in Docelles (Vosges, France) in the heart of Europe. Papeteries de Docelles is part of the UPM – Kymmene group, one of the world leaders of the forest industry with production units in 15 countries. In 2009, UPM's sales totalled € 7.7 billion. UPM has production plants in 15 countries and it employs approximately 23,000 people worldwide.

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 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

For further information, please contact:

Patrick Rojo, Sales & Service Account Manager, Process Automation Systems, Automation business line, Metso, Tel. +33 557 92 10 40

Metso will relocate a containerboard machine for the Indonesian PT. Pelita Cengkareng Paper & Co. to their Subang mill in Indonesia. The start-up of the relocated machine is scheduled for the last quarter of 2011. The value of the order will not be disclosed. The typical market value of this type of a relocation project ranges from EUR 5 to 10 million depending on the scope of services. The most part of the order is included in Paper and Fiber Technology’s Q4 orders received and the automation upgrade package in Energy and Environmental Technology’s Q4 orders received.

A Tampella-manufactured (currently Metso technology) kraftliner machine will be reconditioned and modified to manufacture testliner and corrugating medium grades. Metso’s delivery will comprise a broad scope of services including dismantling and packing supervision, engineering, installation supervision and start-up support of the machine.

Metso will also modernize the dryer section with a newhood and dryer fabric cleaners. A complete automation upgrade package with machine and process controls, quality measurements and drive controls for the entire production line is also included in the delivery.

Relocation services are part of Metso’s full-scope offering, combining expert services, machine rebuilding, project management and automation solutions, and reflecting the wide Metso installed-base know-how.

Established in 1974, PT. Pelita Cengkareng Paper produces kraftliner, corrugating medium, duplex board, chipboard and wrapping paper. The current annual production capacity is 190,000 tonnes. Through expansion in a new site at Subang the annual capacity will increase to 540,000 tonnes.

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 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

For further information for the press, please contact:
Mikko Osara, Vice President, Sales, Paper business line, Metso, tel. +358 40 841 8804
Mika Ollikainen, Country Manager, Paper business line, Metso, tel. +62 811 1871461

ABTCP, the Brazilian Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, has chosen Metso to be the best company of the Automation category in 2010. The award was granted to Metso on October 5, 2010 at the ABTCP congress and exhibition in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The main criteria for the selection were the innovativeness of the automation supplier, the latest technology, the level of service and industry performance.

Metso has been on the Brazilian market since 1975. The country is currently a growing market for new investments. Metso has been able to win significant orders from the pulp and paper as well as the oil and gas industries. For example, Klabin, Celulose Nipo-Brasileira S.A. (Cenibra) and Suzano,Papel e Celulose S.A. are relying on Metso’s automation technologies.

During the years, Metso’s product range has been developing toward a comprehensive product offering, from process audits to life cycle performance agreements. Today, the main emphasis is on offering results that decrease raw materials, maintenance costs, chemical and energy consumption as well as support the environmental issues with high reliability. Metso’s automation based on a single platform approach with common hardware saves money for customers. All the different types of controls are within the same platform. This results in one user interface. No links are necessary between the systems.

ABTCP, the Brazilian Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, arranges a pulp and paper related congress and exhibition every year. The events organized are well established in the field; every year about 15,000 professionals visit the exhibition. This year saw the celebration of the 43^rd event. More than 160 exhibitors were present.

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 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

Further information for the press, please contact:
Marcelo Motti, Vice President, Sales & Service, South America, Metso, Tel. +55 15 2102 9708, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Aija Kalander
Communications Director
Energy and Environmental Technology

Metso Corporation
Lentokentänkatu 11, P.O. Box 237, 33101 Tampere, Finland
Tel. +358 20 483170, mobile +358 40 555 1637
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Metso will provide a new fiberline to the Yun Nan Yun-Jing mill of Yun Nan Yun-Jing Forestry and Pulp Mill CO., Ltd in the province of Yunnan in China. Start-up is scheduled for the first quarter of 2012. The value of the order is less than EUR 10 million. The order is included in Paper and Fiber Technology’s Q3 orders received.

Metso’s delivery will include a cooking plant and fiberline equipment for screening, brown stock washing, oxygen delignification, post oxygen washing and bleaching as well as basic engineering, supervision and spare parts. The brown stock washing in the line will be performed on wash presses and washing after each bleaching stage on vacuum filters.

The new fiberline is an important investment for the Yun Nan Yun-Jing mill for ensuring high-quality and environmentally beneficial operation. Processes and equipment delivered by Metso provide sustainable production with a low use of chemicals, water and electricity.

Yun Nan Yun-Jing Forestry and Pulp Mill CO., Ltd’s first production line was built in 1995.

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 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

Metso will provide a new fiberline for dissolving pulp to Fujian Qingshan Paper Industry Co., Ltd. in Qingzhou city, Fujian province, China. Start-up is scheduled for the first half of 2012. The value of the order is over EUR 10 million. The order is included in Paper and Fiber Technology’s Q3 orders received.

Metso´s delivery will include design and supply of the main equipment of the fiberline from cooking to bleaching. The batch cooking plant is designed according to the prehydrolysis process and wash presses will be used in all washing positions.

The equipment to be supplied, together with Metso´s experience and know-how of dissolving pulp, will enable Fujian Qingshan Paper to produce high quality dissolving pulp for the growing market.

Fujian Qingshan Paper Industry Co., Ltd. is a China-based company primarily engaged in manufacture and sale of paper products. In 2009, the company had 12 subsidiaries and close to 2,500 employees with a net sales of about EUR 140 million.

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 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

Metso will supply a complete tissue production line to Xiamen Xinyang Paper Co., Ltd. in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China. The new tissue line will be started up in the fourth quarter of 2011. The value of the order will not be disclosed. The market value of a tissue production line of this type is in the range of EUR 15-20 million depending on the scope of the delivery and the production output. The most part of the order is included in Paper and Fiber Technology´s Q3 orders received and the automation package in Energy and Environmental Technology’s Q3 orders received.

Metso’s delivery will comprise a complete production line with stock preparation equipment and a tissue machine including a multi-layer headbox, a Yankee cylinder, a hood, a dust management system and a reel. The delivery also features Metso’s patented pressing technology. The production line will be optimized to enhance final product quality and save energy.

The delivery will also comprise an extensive automation package including machine, process and integrated drive controls, as well as a quality control system.

Xiamen Xinyang Paper Co., Ltd. was established in 2009 by four companies based in Fujian Province, China: Xiamen Shun-Cheng Asset Management Co., Ltd, Xiamen Haicang Investment Group Co., Ltd, Nanping Paper Co., Ltd and Xiamen Construction & Development Group Co., Ltd. The first phase in the company’s investment plan is a tissue mill for producing 60,000 tonnes a year of facial, toilet and towel grades.

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 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

Further information for the press, please contact:
Anders Björn, President, Metso Paper Karlstad AB, Tissue business line, Metso, tel. +46 705 1713 38

Leif Forsberg, Senior Vice President, Tissue business line, Metso, tel. +46 705 17 13 10

Metso will supply two board machines to Liansheng Paper Industry (Longhai) Co., Ltd. to its mill in Longhai City in Fujian Province on the southeast coast of China. The start-up of both machines is scheduled for the first quarter of 2012. The value of the order will not be disclosed. The order is included in Paper and Fiber Technology’s Q3 orders received.

Metso’s delivery will include two board machines. The combined annual capacity of the two machines will be about 800,000 tonnes. One of the new machines will produce testliner and the other will produce fluting. Both machines utilize new technology in machine building, design and operation.

Liansheng Paper Industry (Longhai) Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Fujian Liansheng Paper Co., Ltd. In 2009, Fujian Liansheng Paper ordered a containerboard machine from Metso to its Zhangzhou mill. The new order for two machines to the Longhai mill further emphasizes the good co-operation between Fujian Liansheng Paper and Metso.

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 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

Further information for the press, please contact:
Hannu T. Pietilä, Vice President, Sales, Paper business line, Metso, tel. +358 40 503 4085

Metso will supply a complete tissue production line to the Italian Industrie Cartarie Tronchetti group. The tissue line will be installed at Montargis in France. The line will be started up in the second quarter of 2011. The value of the order that was received in April will not be disclosed.

Metso's delivery will comprise a complete tissue production line with stock preparation equipment and an Advantage DCT 200 tissue machine including an OptiFlo II TIS multi-layer headbox, a Metso Yankee cylinder, an Advantage AirCap hood, an Advantage WetDust dust management system and an Advantage SoftReel reel. The production line will be optimized to enhance final product quality and save energy. The delivery will also comprise an extensive Metso automation package including metsoDNA machine, process and integrated drive controls, as well as a PaperIQ Select quality control system with an IQScanner-i scanner and an IQFibre sensor.

With a width of 5.6 m and an operating speed of 1900 m/min, the new production line will produce 60-70,000 tons/yr of high-quality facial, toilet and towel grades. The raw material for the new line will be virgin pulp.

Industrie Cartarie Tronchetti is headquartered in Lucca, Italy, and operates mills in Italy, Spain and Poland with a combined capacity of 400,000 tons a year, has a turnover of more than €500 million and around 1000 employees. The group has been present in France since 1999 through its sales organization based in Paris.

Metso Foundries Jyväskylä has on Thursday, September 16, concluded the personnel negotiations started on July 1, 2010, concerning temporary layoffs and personnel reductions.

The measures taken on the basis of the negotiations, targeting at increased competitiveness, will affect 70 persons in total, a significantly lower figure than originally estimated. Of these, 46 will be redundancies. The rest of the reductions will comprise pension arrangements, part-time employments and internal transfers. The permanent reduction will amount to 62 personworkyears. In addition, temporary layoffs will continue in all personnel groups in accordance with the work load situation. The effects on the personnel are estimated to be realized by March 2011.

Metso Foundries Jyväskylä produces hand-moulded castings for Metso and outside customers.

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 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

For further information, please contact:
Pasi Mäkinen, President, Metso Foundries Jyväskylä, Inc., tel. +358 20 482 6736
Jaakko Puurula, Vice President, Human Resources, Paper and Fiber Technology, Metso, tel. +358 20 482 5500

Metso will supply a coated cartonboard production line to Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd to the company’s Hongmei mill in Guangdong province, China. The start-up of the new production line is scheduled for the end of 2011. The value of the order is not disclosed. A typical value of a board production line of this type is about EUR 70-90 million, depending on the scope of delivery and production output. The order is included in Paper and Fiber Technology’s Q3 orders received.

Metso’s delivery will include a complete white lined chipboard machine, from four-ply multi-Fourdrinier forming section to winder, with related air systems.

Lee & Man Paper and Metso have a long and prosperous co-operation, a good example of which are the Changshu and Hongmei kraftliner machines delivered earlier.

Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is one of China's largest paper and pulp producers and it employs currently over 7,000 people. The company, founded in 1994, is listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In 2009, Lee & Man had a combined annual production capacity of close to 4.5 million tonnes of paper and 300,000 tonnes of pulp. In the financial year ending March 2010 the Group’s net sales amounted to about EUR 1.3 million.

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 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

Further information for the press, please contact:
Kaarlo Hedman, Vice President, Sales, Paper business line, Metso
Tel. +358 40 585 9943

Further information for investors, please contact:
Johanna Henttonen, Vice President, Investor Relations, Metso Corporation, tel. +358 20 484 3253