Kvaerner to power-up UPM mill.

KVAERNER TO POWER-UP UPM MILL. Kvaerner Power, Lysaker, Norway, part of the Aker Kvaerner group, has been awarded a contract for a power boiler by UPM. The contract is worth EUR 20 million (US$ 26.02 million). Kvaerner Power will deliver a power boiler using bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) technology to a power plant at UPM's Rauma paper mill on the west coast of Finland. The power plant will be built by the new company Rauman Voima Oy, which is owned by Pohjolan Voima Oy and Rauman Energia Oy. UPM is a substantial shareholder of Pohjolan Voima. The new power plant will produce electricity, steam for the paper mill and district heat for the city of Rauma, with a thermal capacity of 107 MW, burning bark, forest residue, peat, sludge and small amount of recycled fuel. BFB technology fulfills co-combustion emission requirements, and the use of biofuels reduces the C[O.sub.2] emissions to the atmosphere. The boiler will be ready at the end of 2006, operating alongside a 160 MWth circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler delivered by Kvaerner Power in 1996.