Metsä-Botnia's Kemi Mill to Install New Recausticizing Plant

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Metsä-Botnia, Finland, has placed an order with Metso, Finland, for a recausticizing plant to be erected at its Kemi mill in the city of Kemi, Finland. The new plant will replace an existing recausticizing line and is scheduled to startup during autumn 2011. The value of the order will not be disclosed. Metso's scope of supply covers a complete recausticizing plant comprised of a clarifier, a decanter centrifuge, a green liquor cooler, a slaker, causticizers, a pressure disc filter for white liquor, and storage tanks. The new recausticizing plant is designed for 7,000 m³ of white liquor per day. The delivery also includes basic and detail engineering for piping, erection, and startup.

The new recausticizing plant will lower the maintenance costs and improve the efficiency and environmental performance at the Metsä-Botnia Kemi mill and will be the first recausticizing plant to be delivered by Metso to Finland.

Oy Metsä-Botnia Ab is part of the Metsäliitto Group. UPM-Kymmene Corp. owns 17 % of Metsä-Botnia. Metsä-Botnia operates four mills in Finland and is one of Europe's top producers of chemical pulps. The production capacity of the Kemi mill is approximately 590,000 metric tpy of kraft pulp. The total production of Metsä-Botnia is some 2.4 million metric tpy.