Metso Paper will supply Celulose Beira Industrial (Celbi) S.A. with a new
recovery boiler, a new evaporation plant and a cooking plant modernization to
Celbi's Figueira da Foz pulp mill in Portugal. Start-up is scheduled for the
first quarter of 2009. The total value of the order is approximately EUR 130
million.
The new recovery boiler and the new 7-effect evaporation plant, which will be
delivered by Metso Paper's Power business line, are rated at 2,400 tons of dry
solids per day and 590 tons of evaporated water per hour. Metso Paper's Fiber
business line will deliver a capacity upgrade and modernization of the existing
cooking and brown stock washing plant.
The equipment is part of Celbi's pulp mill expansion project to increase the
pulp production capacity from 305,000 to 550,000 tons per year.
Celbi Pulp Mill, part of the Altri Group, produces high quality short-fiber
eucalyptus pulp. Celbi's pulp is suitable for the production of printing,
writing and specialty papers, and tissue. The mill obtains half of its fiber
raw material from its own plantations.
Metso is a global engineering and technology corporation with 2006 net sales of
approximately EUR 5 billion. Its 25,500 employees in more than 50 countries
serve customers in the pulp and paper industry, rock and minerals processing,
the energy industry and selected other industries.
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Further information for the press, please contact:
Kai Mäenpää, Vice President, Capital projects, Metso Power,
tel. +358 40 556 5666
Gunnar Gullbrand, General Manager, Metso Fiber Karlstad AB, Metso Paper,
tel. +46 54 194600
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Johanna Sintonen, Vice President, Investor Relations, Metso Corporation,
tel. +358 20 484 3253
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