Metso Supplies Multifuel-Fired Boiler to Stora Enso Poland

Helsinki, Finland, 03 November 2008 -- Metso will supply Stora Enso Poland S.A. with a multifuel-fired power boiler to the company's new power plant at the Ostroleka mill in Ostroleka, Poland, 120 km from Warsaw. Start-up of the boiler is scheduled for the second half of 2010. Stora Enso's Ostroleka paper and paper packaging complex includes a pulp and paper mill, a corrugated board and boxes mill, and a sack mill. The value of the order is approximately EUR 50 million, and it will be included in Metso Paper's Q4 orders received.

Metso Power will supply for the power plant a power boiler that will use circulating fluidized bed (CFB) technology and is capable of burning a wide range of different fuels including biomass, paper and fiber rejects, sludge, and coal. The new power plant will produce process steam and electricity to the mill. The delivery also will include a flue gas cleaning system, which decreases environmental effects at Ostroleka area.

Stora Enso is an integrated paper, packaging, and forest products company producing newsprint, magazine paper, fine paper, consumer board, industrial packaging, and wood products. Stora Enso’s sales totaled EUR 11.8 billion in 2007 and it has some 36,000 employees in more than 40 countries on five continents.

Metso is a global engineering and technology corporation with 2007 net sales of over EUR 6 billion. The company has more than 27,000 employees in approximately 50 countries serving customers in the pulp and paper industry, rock and minerals processing, the energy industry, and selected other industries.

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