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Metso will supply advanced quality control solutions (AQC) to Norske Skog Albury to reduce TMP quality variability and energy usage. The Norske Skog Albury mill produces185,000 tons per year of bleached softwood TMP and has an annual paper production capacity of 285,000 tons per year.

After evaluating and trialing different advanced control technologies Norske Skog determined the AQC solution best meet their quality and economic objectives. The AQC system will be implemented on all four lines of refining. With the addition of Norske Skog Albury, Metso now has three AQC systems installed for mechanical pulping optimization within Norske Skog and twenty five systems globally.

Norske Skog is a world leading producer of newsprint and magazine paper, 14 paper mills around the world. The world market for newsprint and magazine paper is about 60 million tons, and the group has about 10 per cent and five per cent of these segments respectively. Annual sales are around NOK 20 billion and nearly 6,000 people are employed by Norske Skog.

For more information, please contact:
Adam Melton, Sales Manager, Metso, Automation business line, tel. +1 251 510 7589, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Devin Cole, Project Manager, Metso, Automation business line, tel. +1 770 263 2071, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Metso and Myllykoski’s MD Plattling mill have signed a frame agreement for the maintenance operations at MD Plattling paper mill in Plattling, Germany. The multi-year agreement will become effective as of January 1, 2011.

According to the frame agreement, MD Plattling will outsource the maintenance of their two light-weight coated paper making lines to Metso. The mill’s maintenance personnel, amounting to approx. 70 persons, will start working for Metso.

Metso already is responsible for the maintenance of the SC-paper line, belonging to Plattling Papier, an alliance partner of Myllykoski. The SC-paper line had its start-up in December 2007 and is located at the same mill site as MD Plattling. The considerable extension of Metso’s maintenance responsibility at the Plattling mill site is a sign of the customer’s trust in Metso and its maintenance concept.

“The choice of the partner was made based on the proven and fair cooperation and the positive experiences we have had”, says Caius Murtola, General Manager of Plattling. For Metso, the agreement with MD Plattling is a very important maintenance outsourcing reference and a milestone in developing the service business, one of the cornerstones of the company’s strategy.

MD Plattling is a company of the Myllykoski Group. Plattling Papier is part of Myllykoski’s alliance partner Rhein Papier GmbH. Myllykoski is a family-owned international paper group with manufacturing in Finland, Germany and the United States. Myllykoski is among the largest publication paper producers in the world, operating seven paper mills with a total annual capacity of close to 3 million tonnes and employing 2,700 people.

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 more information, please contact:
Jouni Iikkanen, Managing Director, Metso Mill Service Plattling GmbH
Phone: +49 172 6280 180

Metso will supply advanced quality control solutions (AQC) to Norske Skog Albury to reduce TMP quality variability and energy usage. The Norske Skog Albury mill produces185,000 tons per year of bleached softwood TMP and has an annual paper production capacity of 285,000 tons per year.

After evaluating and trialing different advanced control technologies Norske Skog determined the AQC solution best meet their quality and economic objectives. The AQC system will be implemented on all four lines of refining. With the addition of Norske Skog Albury, Metso now has three AQC systems installed for mechanical pulping optimization within Norske Skog and twenty five systems globally.

Norske Skog is a world leading producer of newsprint and magazine paper, 14 paper mills around the world. The world market for newsprint and magazine paper is about 60 million tons, and the group has about 10 per cent and five per cent of these segments respectively. Annual sales are around NOK 20 billion and nearly 6,000 people are employed by Norske Skog.

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 more information, please contact:
Adam Melton, Sales Manager, Metso, Automation business line, tel. +1 251 510 7589, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,
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Devin Cole, Project Manager, Metso, Automation business line, tel. +1 770 263 2071, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Metso has signed an agreement with Tampereen Energiantuotanto Oy for the renewal of the automation, field devices and electrification at the Lielahti power plant in Tampere, Finland. The original installations dating back to 1988 when the plant went on stream will be replaced by modern technology to extend the plant’s operational life by about twenty years. The project will be completed in the autumn of 2011.
“In the future, one operator will be able to control and monitor the operation of the Lielahti power plant as well as the production and distribution of district heat in Tampere, which is a city of over 200,000 inhabitants. Also, it will be easier to find the causes of disturbances,” says Sales Director Heikki Mylläri of Metso.

The natural-gas-fueled Lielahti co-generation plant produces electricity with a capacity of 147 MW and district heat with a capacity of 160 MW.

Metso’s delivery scope includes removing the old automation system and installing a new-generation automation system with integrated steam turbine controls. Metso will also provide the power plant with round-the-clock upkeep services.

Close cooperation between the two parties has lasted for nearly forty years and has spanned several automation systems, automation rebuilds and related services for the customer’s various power plants in Tampere.

The order is valued at about four million euros and is included as Q2 orders received in Energy and Environmental Technology.

Tampereen Energiantuotanto Oy is in charge of the production, upkeep and development of electricity and heat as part of its parent company Tampereen Sähkölaitos Oy. At the end of 2009, the company employed 156 people.

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 more information, please contact:
Heikki Mylläri, Sales Director, Automation business line, Metso, tel. +358 20 483 8191, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Metso Corporation´s Annual General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors on March 30, 2010 to decide on a donation of a maximum of EUR 2.5 million to universities.

On the basis of the decision made by the Annual General Meeting, Metso has decided to grant a donation of EUR 1.9 million to Aalto University Foundation. Other donations to different universities are to be published later.

This donation supports Aalto University´s financial capabilities to offer internationally competitive research and teaching services and helps Aalto University to meet its ambitious goals.

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:
Jukka Seppälä, Vice President, Stakeholder Relations and Trade Policy, Metso Corporation, tel. +358 20 484 3106

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

Metso's offering of valves, actuators and intelligent valve controllers has been extended with the introduction of SIL certified ball valves. Trunnion and seat supported modular ball valve series X and M are classified and certified by Lloyd's in accordance with IEC 61508, Type A equipment. The SIL assessment study with field proven reliability analysis confirms that X and M series ball valves can be used in applications up to and including SIL 3 in single valve configurations in accordance with IEC 61508.

Intelligent safety valves from a single manufacturer
Metso's reliable iESD (intelligent emergency shutdown) valves and actuators with Neles ValvGuard intelligent valve controllers improve plant safety cost efficiently. Metso's iESDs combine the know-how of final elements and applications, safety standards and system operability together with intelligent partial-stroke test devices. All this technology has been combined in a single package and tested and configured as an integrated assembly with a clear function.


For further information, please visit: www.metso.com/iesd
or contact:
Jari Kirmanen, Product manager, ESD and on/off valves: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Timo Pietarinen, Product manager, ball valves: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Metso’s Fabrics business line has concluded employee negotiations concerning all personnel groups in their Finnish units. The negotiations were started on May 12 and concluded on June 23, 2010. The negotiations were conducted at Metso Fabrics Inc. (former Tamfelt Corp.) and Tamfelt PMC Corp. The negotiations did not apply to office staff and shop floor workers in the production departments.

In the negotiation proposal given in May 2010 the estimated need for personnel reduction was maximum 30 people. In the negotiations, the number of lay-offs was determined at 18. All those to be laid off are office staff. 10 of them will enter a retirement process. One person will start part-time work. In the negotiations it was also decided that there is no need for temporary lay-offs within the personnel groups included in these negotiations.

With the reductions the Fabrics business line’s operations are adjusted to the market situation, which continues to be challenging. In addition to personnel reductions, the efficiency of operations and overall cost efficiency will be improved also through other measures, in order to secure future competitiveness and needed preconditions for operations.

Fabrics business line is part of Metso’s Paper and Fiber Technology segment and it employs about 900 people in Finland.

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 more information, please contact:
Reima Kerttula, President, Fabrics business line, Metso, tel. +358 400 648 458
Tuire Leimu, Vice President, Human Resources, Fabrics business line, Metso, tel. +358 40 516 7124

Metso Corporation’s press release on June 22, 2010 at 10:45 a.m. local time
Jussi Ollila, M.Sc. (Pol), has been appointed Senior Vice President, Communications for the Metso Group. He will start in his new position on or about September 1, 2010. Jussi will report to Jorma Eloranta, President and CEO.

Jussi will join Metso from SRV Group, a construction company, where he has worked as SVP, Communications & Marketing.

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, please contact:
Jorma Eloranta, President and CEO, Metso Corporation, tel. +358 204 84 3000

Metso is supplying two complete tissue production lines to Shanghai Orient Champion Paper Co., Ltd., located in Shanghai, China. The first line is scheduled to start up in the second quarter of 2011; the second in the fourth quarter of 2011.

The equipment consists of two complete tissue production lines, featuring two tissue machines with stock preparation systems and auxiliaries. Each of the machines will be equipped with a headbox, a Yankee cylinder, hood, a dust management system for enhanced working environment and a reel. The stock preparation systems will consist of pulpers, conical refiners and deflakers and machine screens. Both machines will be delivered with a comprehensive Metso automation package that includes  machine, process and integrated drive controls, as well as a  quality control system and a steam box for energy saving and moisture profile control.

Both production lines will be installed at Shanghai Orient Champion Paper’s paper mill in Jinshan near Shanghai. After both lines are installed, capacity at the mill will double from 70,000 to 140,000 metric tons per year.

Shanghai Orient Champion Paper, part of the CIMIC Group, currently operates the Jinshan mill with six smaller tissue machines and converting lines.

Metso will supply a web inspection system to M-real Kyro Board Mill located in Kyröskoski, Finland. The board machine 1 produces coated folded boxboard with an annual capacity of 160,000 tons. The new system will be put into use in late August.

The web inspection system detects defects in the board web with machine vision. A two LED light  beams and one camera  beam  located in front of the reeler measur ing the body and surface defects and second camera and LED light beam  in the coating with low angle reflection measuring coating defects.

Thanks to the new web inspection system, M-real Kyro will be able to monitor its quality better than before. A similar system is already being used on the winder.

“An order for a second web inspection system is proof of the system’s technological excellence as well as of the customer’s trust in Metso’s support during its entire life cycle,” says Sales Manager Juha Mykkänen of Metso.

Metso acquired the Viconsys machine vision business in April 2010 to complement its product and service offering. The delivery to M-real Kyro is the first web inspection system supplied by Metso.

M-real, Europe’s leading board supplier and a major paper producer, provides its customers with high-quality board and paper for consumer packaging and to meet the needs of communications and advertising. The company’s global sales network serves brand owners, carton printers, publishers, printing houses, merchants, and office suppliers. The company’s sales in 2009 were EUR 2.4 billion and it has some 4,900 employees.

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: Sales Manager Juha Mykkänen, Metso, Automation business line, tel. +358 40 543 4704, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.