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Metso announce the launch of the HART version of its Neles ValvGuard VG9000 safety valve controller. Neles ValvGuard VG9000 is a ‘new generation’ safety-valve controller and automatic partial-stroke testing (PST) device for both emergency shutdown (ESD) and emergency venting valves (ESV).  It combines new features and capabilities with all the benefits of the first-generation Neles ValvGuard VG800 taking automatic partial-stroke testing to a completely new level.  TÜV Rheinland has certified VG9000 as compliant with IEC61508, up to SIL3.

Highly cost-efficient
Plant safety targets can be reached more economically with the Neles ValvGuard VG9000 than with traditional solutions. Its extensive safety-valve-testing capabilities include partial-stroke testing (PST), internal pneumatics testing and emergency trip testing. Safety-valve condition can be constantly monitored using the diagnostics data gained from the tests the controller performs.  In addition, the VG9000 is able to collect valve diagnostics during trip situations.

There is no need to mount extra instrumentation and parallel limit-switches, because the VG9000 has market-leading pneumatics capacity and optional internal limit switches. The reduced number of safety-related components also increases plant safety while simultaneously creating cost savings. The VG9000, now available in both HART and FOUNDATION Fieldbus versions, can be used with both single- and double-acting actuators. The new HART version supports also both safety AO’s and DO’s.

Enables alarm management and predictive maintenance
The Neles ValvGuard VG9000 provides real-time alarm management at no extra cost. The availability of safety valves is maximized because emergency valve-related on-line diagnostics are integrated into device functionality.

The diagnostics information collected by VG9000 is presented in an easily understandable form via a graphical FDT/DTM interface, such as Neles FieldCare™.  The usability of VG9000’s interface is also taken to a new level when compared to first-generation partial-stroke testing devices. Because the diagnostics information enables predictive maintenance, potential valve failures can be detected and corrected before they can have any impact on the process or plant safety.

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: Juha Kivelä, Product manager,

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The forest industry company Oy Metsä-Botnia Ab was the first in the world to implement a uniform group-level flue gas emission monitoring and reporting solution for pulp production. Metso provided the monitoring and reporting solution for the company’s Botnia pulp mill group, based on the metsoDNAinformation system platform.

Metso’s emission monitoring and reporting applications are widely used in other large combustion plants and Botnia Group’s reporting system is based on these practices, and on mill-specific environmental permits and EU directives and standards. The set-up was specially tailored for pulp production. The applications can either be an integrated part of Metso´s own metsoDNA CR automation platform or a stand-alone solution.

Each Botnia mill has its own data collection server, where emission data is collected and processed. Mill servers are connected to the main server at the Äänekoski mill in Finland. This arrangement enables any Botnia mill to review and compare their operation with the results of another mill via a web-based browser display.

The experience so far shows that the set-up makes it possible to respond quickly to any problems the mill might have and to benchmark operations against other Botnia mills. The solution enables uniform monitoring and reporting online, as well as short- and long-term emission reporting within the Botnia Group and to the authorities. Furthermore, it even enables proactive emission management and forecasting.

Energy efficiency is also considered crucial and therefore Botnia is planning to connect the monitoring of the current mill-specific measurement systems to the same common portal. This would offer the same advantages for group-wide energy efficiency monitoring and reporting.

For further information, please contact: Tiina Stenvik, Product Manager, Automation business line,
tel. +358 20 483 8013

Metso gained the title to all the shares in Tamfelt on May 4, 2010 when it lodged the security approved by the Arbitral Tribunal for the payment of the redemption price and the interest accruing thereon.

The Arbitral Tribunal appointed by the Redemption Committee of the Central Chamber of Commerce of Finland has today with its arbitral award confirmed that the redemption price of the shares in Tamfelt Corp. (currently, Metso Fabrics Inc.) is EUR 7.17 per share.

The total number of Tamfelt’s shares to be redeemed is 600,937 shares, that is, approximately 2 percent of the shares in Tamfelt. Metso will pay the redemption price and the interest accrued thereon to the minority shareholders of Tamfelt within one month after the arbitral award has become legally binding, which is estimated to take place in the second half of August 2010.

The arbitral award becomes legally binding after 60 days of its registration with the Finnish Trade Register, assuming that no appeal is filed against it.

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

Metso has expanded its iCV (intelligent control valve) offering to include high-pressure classes and small sizes. The Neles RotaryGlobe high-pressure offering now consists of valves in ASME #900 - #1500 pressure classes in sizes from 1” to 4”.

Metso introduced its revolutionary new control valve - Neles RotaryGlobe - in 2007 and since then it has been used in a variety of applications by our customers. It has created a lot of interest within the process industry and has won the Best Innovation 2007award at the Process and Automation exhibition in Norway. With these latest additions, the coverage of all Metso valves in the intelligent high-pressure control valve offering is significantly improved and expands Metso’s ability to serve customers in a wider range of flow control applications.

The high-pressure Neles RotaryGlobe is designed for accurate control with full pressure-drop capability. The valve design also enables excellent packing tightness, which helps to minimize control-valve fugitive emissions. The wide selection of interchangeable trims includes linear, equal percentage, anti-cavitation and noise abatement trims, which makes valve selection easier for different process requirements. With the on-line diagnostics provided by the intelligent valve controller, the intelligent control valve helps to increase plant productivity and supports maintenance optimization through seamless integration to the process control system.

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: Jussi Koukkuluoma, Product manager, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit: www.metso.com/rotaryglobe, www.metso.com/icv

A lawsuit involving the protection of certain Metso intellectual property rights, Metso versus FLSmidth-Excel LLC, Excel Foundry & Machine, Inc., et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, has been settled. According to the settlement agreement, FLSmidth-Excel LLC and Excel Foundry & Machine, Inc., without admitting liability, have paid to Metso compensation in the amount of approximately EUR 20 million (USD 25 million). Otherwise the settlement agreement is confidential. The sum will be booked to Mining and Construction Technology’s Q2/2010 result.

Metso will continue to be active in protecting its intellectual property rights globally, acting with the objective to enhance fair competition.

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 press, please contact:
Erica Aminoff, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Mining and Construction Technology, Metso, tel. +358 20 484 3246

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

Metso has developed Metso DNA Loop Monitoring Services through which it is possible to monitor even up to hundreds of control loops and ensure their proper operation in real time. The services are suitable, for example, for the pulp, paper, chemical and energy industries, in which processes are controlled through extensive, advanced control solutions.

The services consist of a measuring maintenance application, which collects data on the operation of the control loops in the process under monitoring, and of Metso’s specialists’ know-how. When the application detects weakening in loop performance, a specialist checks the situation and provides the customer’s maintenance organization with a suggestion for repair measures. This information is very useful especially when preparing for maintenance shutdowns; it makes it possible to draw up a real-time list of the needed measures and prioritize them.

The customer benefits from the services in many ways. For example, it is easier to plan the maintenance measures and the resources needed in them in advance, and the work can be carried out as soon as it is possible. Servicing equipment right on time also improves production process safety and decreases unplanned shutdowns. Regular reporting informs the customer which loop repair measurements have been carried out and which will be carried out next.  

Metso DNA Loop Monitoring Services are available either as analyzing services or as more extensive maintenance cooperation. Through the latter the customer gains access to Metso’s wide process know-how and specialist network.

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: Jani Honga, Application Specialist,
tel. +358 40 767 9426, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Metso has packaged and further developed its Metso DNA pulp mill information management offering. One of the novelties is Metso DNA Pulp Reporting, which features an easy-to-implement, web-based, mill-wide reporting application. It collects key data from all pulp mill departments and transforms it into pre-defined reports, along with drawing up a comprehensive mill overview. The hierarchical structure, consistent layout and simple navigation make the solution easy to use. The package is to be customized according to each mill’s application-specific needs.

Another novelty is the introduction of advanced delay calculation applications in pulping processes. Until now, mills have had to calculate process delays and follow, for example, grade changes manually, which is very time consuming. Very often, these delays make it difficult to find causes behind quality defects and to track real production costs.

Detecting deviations and forecasting their progression all the way from the cooking line to the baling line is very useful in pulp production. Metso DNA Pulp Tracking is the corresponding application based on the delay calculation platform. It detects deviations and estimates when they will reach the baling line. It can also be used to follow grade changes and trial runs.

The pulp production cost structure is reported with higher accuracy by implementing the delay calculation method featured by Metso DNA Pulp Cost Monitoring. Equal advantages are achieved in quality reporting by using delay information featured by Metso DNA Pulp Quality Monitoring. Both applications are useful management tools when benchmarking mills or departments for performance.

The new applications now turn Metso’s offering into a true Pulp Mill Information Package, which has been developed in accordance with customer needs. The package is based on Metso’s long experience in information applications that have been widely used in pulp mills around the world since the mid-1990s.

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:

Heikki Turppo, Product Manager, tel. +358 40 824 1132, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Metso has developed Metso Rotating Consistency Transmitter to better meet user needs. This universal transmitter suits all pulp and papermaking applications. It is based on Metso’s long, in-depth experience in developing world-class consistency transmitters featuring several patents.

Metso Rotating Consistency Transmitter features shear force measurement principle, but with a new approach. It features Direct Torque™ technology, which replaces traditional force balance technology and gives improved measurement stability and faster response.

The new consistency transmitter has an optimal design, which results in higher reliability, easier maintenance, longer lifetime and lower lifetime costs.

One of the factors behind the longer lifetime is the patented Metal-to-Metal Precision™ sealing construction that replaces the conventional structure with rubber components. The lighter design with fewer parts lowers the maintenance need to the minimum. It is easy to maintain it onsite by the mill staff, partly even when the process is running.

Due to its modular structure, Metso Rotating Consistency Transmitter provides a mill with the opportunity to cost-efficiently update its old consistency transmitter technology into modern technology. By making use of its existing installed base, the mill is able to buy only the necessary modules and build up a package that best meets its particular needs. Reusing old parts instead of disposing of them is a way to support sustainability, too.

Metso Rotating Consistency Transmitter is fast to install, and its installation costs are low. In case of replacements, the costs are even lower because the existing installation set-up can be used. Calibration tuning and recipe change can easily be done during production. These new solutions increase the transmitter’s availability time and reliability compared with traditional technology.

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: Bengt B Johansson, Product Manager,
tel. +46 703 421 240, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Sami Saarenmaa, Product Group Director, tel. +358 40 583 4147, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Metso has introduced a new scanning formation sensor, called Metso IQ Formation Measurement, which uses high-speed image capture and analysis technology to define small-scale sheet uniformity. Machine operators can quickly optimize sheet formation visually and meet formation index specifications to ensure customer quality is uniform while the paper machine is running.

Image based on high-speed image capture technology, the sensor provides sequential, instantaneous images of the sheet as it scans across the paper machine. 

The sensor resolves sequential, instantaneous pictures of the sheet as it scans across the paper machine and displays them on the QCS operator interface. A formation index and other numerical data which defines the distribution of fiber floc and void sizes are determined by the sensor’s sophisticated image analysis software. Dark spots, light spots and pinholes are also detected and classified by the analysis software.

The sharply-focused picture of the sheet gives the machine operators a clear view of sheet formation exactly as they would see it by visually inspecting a paper tear-sheet.  Operators can make a quick evaluation of how formation is changing as they adjust forming conditions and furnish quality. Formation can be optimized systematically during a working shift.

The formation index provided by the image analysis correlates very well with off-line Kajaani Formation Index from Metso’s automated testing laboratory. This enables papermakers to adjust forming conditions to comply with customer standards. This objective index, combined with a library of best-formation images stored in the computer system, ensures that shift-to-shift interpretation and operating practices are consistent and customer quality is the same.

Formation Measurement, like other Metso quality measurements, is designed to be easily plugged into the Metso scanning platform.

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: Marko Toskala, Product Manager,

tel. +358 40 837 2459

Metso will supply the main technology for Ilim Group’s new kraft pulp mill, to be built in Bratsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. The value of the order is approximately EUR 180 million.

Metso’s delivery to Ilim Group represents state-of-the-art pulping technology. The scope of supply will cover a complete fiber line comprising a CompactCooking G2 digester, a screen room with DeltaScreen screens, an OxyTrac oxygen delignification system, brown stock washing and bleaching plants with TwinRoll Evolution wash presses and a DryWay drying line with a Fourdrinier wet end and two Robobaling lines. Integral to the Bratsk reconstruction program are a new Metso recovery boiler and an upgrade of the evaporation plant. Furthermore, Metso will deliver a metsoDNA CR automation system for all process areas, and necessary analyzers and special equipment for quality and runnability management. The order received emphasizes Metso's strong capabilities as a full-scope supplier for the pulp industry. The new pulp mill is scheduled to start up during 2012.

The new pulp mill will produce 720,000 tonnes of bleached softwood market pulp a year, bringing the overall annual pulp production at Bratsk to over 1 million tonnes. When in operation, the Bratsk mill will be one of the world’s largest and most modern softwood pulp production facilities. Ilim Group’s overall investments in the project are about EUR 570 million (nearly USD 700 million).

Ilim Group is a leading Russian pulp and paper producer, headquartered in St. Petersburg. The strategic partner of Ilim Group is International Paper, a global leader in the paper and packaging industry. The total annual pulp and paper production volume of Ilim Group is more than 2.3 million tonnes. Ilim Group employs over 20,000 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 further information, please contact:

Mikael T. Sundqvist, Senior Vice President, Sales, Fiber business line, Metso,
tel. +46 70 533 50 77
Hannu Tähkänen, Senior Vice President, Wood and Pulp Handling, Fiber business line, Metso,
tel. + 358 40 551 7947
Kari Remes, General Manager, Sales, Power business line, Metso,
tel. +358 40 709 2015