Metso receives numerous orders.METSO RECEIVES NUMEROUS ORDERS. Metso Paper, Helsinki, Finland, has made several announcements about orders and current projects: * Metso Automation will supply Stora Enso's Kvarnsveden mill, Sweden, with a wide range of automation and field solutions. This turnkey delivery is for a new production line for high-quality SC paper being supplied by Metso Paper. With a capacity of 420,000 metric tons/yr, the new PM 12 line will be one of the largest in the world. Start-up is scheduled for late 2005. The automation order is a part of Metso's total order announced in April 2004. * The Norske Skog Norske Skogindustrier ASA or Norske Skog, (OSE: NSG) which translates as Norwegian Forest Industries, is a Norwegian pulp and paper company based in Oslo, Norway and etablished in 1962. Bruck Mill, Austria, successfully started up PM 4 in March 2004. Total value of this rebuild project was EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 35 million (US$ 28.7 million), with the forming section rebuild conducted by Metso Paper. * Metso is preparing to send an 18-foot Yankee cylinder to AI Sindan Paper Mill, Egypt, which will complete a new tissue machine project early next year. The AI Sindan machine will produce 54,000 tons/yr of high-quality facial, toilet, and towel grades. The AI Sindan Yankee is number 480 in a row since the very first Yankee cylinder was delivered to Goteborgs Pappersbruk in 1895. * Metso Automation will provide the Veracel Celulose S/A S/A System Administrator S/A Service/Agency S/A Special Agent S/A Spectrum Analyzer S/A Situational Awareness S/A Selective Availability (GPS satellite mode) S/A Services/Agencies S/A Sub-Assembly mill with more than 1000 automated Neles valves for a complete fiber line and white liquor plant by Andritz, a boiler plant by Kvaerner, an evaporator evaporator Industrial apparatus for converting liquid into gas or vapour. The single-effect evaporator consists of a container or surface and a heating unit; the multiple-effect evaporator uses the vapour produced in one unit to heat a succeeding unit. by Confab, and a water treatment process by Centroprojekt. Over 600 flow control applications are furnished with Metso Automation's latest digital valve controller technology ND9000 and Hart communications. Veracel Celulose S/A, the world's largest greenfield pulp mill A pulp mill is a manufacturing facility that converts wood chips or other plant fiber source into a thick fiber board which can be shipped to a paper mill for further processing. project under construction in Brazil, will produce 900,000 metric tons/yr of bleached softwood softwood Timber obtained from coniferous trees (mainly of the pine and fir families). With the exception of bald cypress, tamarack, and larch, softwood trees are evergreens. market pulp. The chosen technology is specially designed for production of high quality pulp with minimum environmental impact. The Kajaani analyzers will be included in the controls of the fiber line and white liquor plant to be planned and built by Andritz. * Metso Paper received an order from Cartulinas CMPC CMPC Classified Matter Protection and Control CMPC Compañia Manufacturera de Papeles y Cartones S.A. CMPC Cisco Multi-Path Channel CMPC Children's Media Policy Coalition CMPC Central Milk Producers Cooperative CMPC Connecticut Minority Purchasing Council for an extensive board machine rebuild at its Maule mill in Chile. Metso will rebuild the mill's folding boxboard box·board n. A firm cardboard used for making boxes. machine 19 with technology to meet increasing quality and production requirements. The rebuild will increase production capacity to 900 metric tons/day from 600. Maximum speed of the five-meter wide board line will increase to 650 m/min. Start up is slated for mid 2005. * Metso Paper will deliver a large specialty paper machine rebuild to UPM UPM Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM Universiti Putra Malaysia UPM University of the Philippines - Manila UPM Unit Production Manager (film and video production) UPM User Profile Management UPM United People's Movement Tervasaari Mill in Valkeakoski, Finland. The rebuilt paper machine, producing release paper, will start up in mid 2005. Value of the order is approximately EUR 30 million (US$ 24.6 million). Annual production will be increased from the present 130,000 metric tons to 175,000 metric tons. The project also aims to improve release paper quality. * Metso Paper will supply Ripasa S/A Celulose E Papel, Brazil with a complete pulp drying line for its Limeira, Brazil, mill, and a rebuild of the board machine for its Ripasa Embu, Brazil mill. Both the drying line and the rebuilt board machine will start up in mid 2005. The total value of the orders is close to EUR 30 million (US$ 24.6 million). Delivery includes bleached stock screening, wet end, airborne dryer, cutter-layboy, and pulp baling systems. Trim width is 3900 mm; design speed is 200 m/min. * Metso Automation said that since its introduction in September 2003, the order list for its PaperIQ Plus quality control system (QCS QCS Quadro Comunitario di Sostegno (Italian: Community Support Network) QCS Quality Control System QCS Queensland Core Skills (exam for Australian schools in Queensland) ) has reached 23. Since many of these are multi-scanner systems, the number of scanners on order is 36. In addition, a number of older systems have been upgraded with new PaperIQ Plus sensors. The first installation of this new-generation system was completed in January 2004 on PM 1 at Stora Enso's Nymolla, Sweden mill. |
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