Name:  Metso Paper      

Address: P.O. Box 587 

City: FI-40101 Jyvaskyla, Finland

Chairman:  Bertel Langesnskiold

Product: Paper and Board

Phone: 358-20-482-150   Year Founded: 1999

      Metso Paper serves pulp, paper and board manufacturers worldwide. It aims to establish long term partnerships with customers – offering products and services that improve the efficiency and competitiveness of customers’ core operations throughout the life cycle of their production processes.

      Metso Paper is the global market leader and a forerunner in pulp and paper technology. Its product and service portfolio ranges from new production lines, machines, equipment and the rebuilds of them to the related know-how and aftermarket services. It has an extensive installed base of machinery and systems for the pulping, papermaking, board making and tissue industry. To date, it has supplied more than 1,500 paper and board machines and process equipment for about 800 pulping lines to customers worldwide. As a seasoned forerunner, it will continue developing technology solutions that better meet the needs and wishes of its customers and help advance the entire industry.

      Metso Paper’s technology offering gives customers the requisites to exploit opportunities that arise in the marketplace. While the increasing demand for paper and board products is driving new investments in production capacity, aftermarket services are boosting efficiency of the existing installed base.

      To ensure the quality of its services in all market areas, it is strengthening operations and adding service and sales resources in high-growth areas. Its global network of regional logistics centers provides customized and effective solutions to meet the unique needs of its customers.

      The company has its own operations and production in 28 countries. In addition, its products and services are sold by more than 20 sales units and 40 service centers in different parts of the world, as well as the logistics centers in Finland, the United States and China. Combined, Metso Paper has 12 technology centers in Finland, Sweden, Italy and the United States.

Mexicali

      The company recently announced it will supply a complete tissue machine to Fábrica de Papel San Francisco S.A. de C.V., in Mexicali, B.C.

      The tissue production line will start in the second quarter of 2009. The value of the order is not disclosed. The value of these types of tissue machines ranges from EUR 10 to EUR 15 million, depending on the scope of the delivery and the production capacity. The order is included in Metso’s fourth quarter order backlog of 2007.

      Metso’s scope of the delivery will comprise a complete Advantage DCT 100TS tissue machine. The design speed of the 2.6-m-wide tissue machine is 2,200 m/min. The new tissue line will use 100 percent recycled fiber as raw material and will add another 30,000 tons per year of bathroom tissue, napkin and towel to the company’s existing production.

      Fábrica de Papel San Francisco now operates three tissue production lines and converting facilities, delivering tissue products for the Mexican market.

      The Mexican tissue production amounted to approximately 800,000 tons in 2007. During the previous four years the annual production growth has been approximately 4 percent. The Mexican tissue producers mainly serve the domestic market.

      Metso Paper serves pulp, paper and board manufacturers worldwide. The company creates long-term customer relationships, offering its customers products and services that cover the entire process life cycle. Together with its customers, Metso Paper develops the efficiency and competitiveness of pulp and papermaking processes.

      With applications ranging from new lines and rebuilds to related know-how and aftermarket services, the company has built an extensive installed base of systems for papermaking, pulping, boardmaking and tissue production.

      Using these as a springboard, the company continues to develop leading technologies, pushing for solutions that will better meet the needs of its customers.

      As the paper industry changes, Metso Paper is changing with it. The steadily increasing demand for paper and board products is driving new investments worldwide, while the existing machinery base in traditional markets is placing greater emphasis on aftermarket services.

      To maintain quality in all areas, Metso Paper strengthens its operations and adds service and sales functions in high-growth regions. Having developed an extensive network of regional logistics centers, Metso Paper today is even better able to satisfy its customers.

Business lines

      The fiber business line is the leading full scope supplier of fiber processing technologies. Its process, product and aftermarket offerings cover all technologies for wood handling, production of chemical and mechanical pulp, re-causticizing, pulp drying and baling as well as recycled fiber processing and paper machine stock preparation. Metso Paper’s Fiber business line employs some 2,600 professionals worldwide.

      The paper and board business line is the industry’s leading technology supplier. Through its global network paper and board business line it is able to provide new installations, rebuilds and process improvements required over the entire lifecycle of customers’ production processes. The paper and board business line employs some 2,700 professionals worldwide.

      The tissue business line supplies technology, processes and equipment for the production of tissue paper. Related lifecycle products include maintenance services, process improvements, rebuilds, and new installations. The tissue business line employs approximately 550 tissue professionals worldwide.

      The power business line is a forerunner in fluidized bed combustion of biomass, coal and other fuels to power plants, and a global leader in chemical recovery systems to pulp and paper mills. The products are fluidized bed boilers and recovery boilers, evaporators, environmental systems and service. The power business line has designed and manufactured the world’s largest biomass-fired boilers and recovery units. The power business line employs 1,500 professionals worldwide.

      Metso Paper’s research, technology and development (RTD) focuses on developing whole processes and their supporting aftermarket solutions for all the major pulp, paper, board and tissue grades. The key objective is to enhance the competitiveness of customer’s processes by improving their productivity, efficiency, environmental soundness and by optimizing their life cycle costs.

      As the leading supplier and manufacturer of the most productive lines for paper and pulp making, Metso Paper has superior development capabilities, including 12 specialized technology centers. These technology centers are staffed with some 500 RTD specialists, and feature extensive full-scale pilot facilities for all major grades and processes. These pilot facilities are used for demonstration trials and partnering projects as well as for proprietary development work.

      Metso’s commitment to continuous development has produced such innovations as the OptiConcept for paper grades that includes processes for recycled fiber and deinking, the Advantage Concept for tissue grades, and the Way Concept for chemical pulping. Metso Paper also supplies several other processes, such as chemicals handling, water management, and effluent treatment systems. Metso Paper currently maintains some 7,000 patents in the field of pulp and paper making.