Metsä Board, Finland, has awarded Pöyry, Finland, the engineering consultancy (laser scanning, 3D modelling, detail engineering and site services) for its new folding boxboard machine project at the company’s Husum Mill in Sweden. The assignment is a continuation of the pre-feasibility and pre-engineering services performed by Pöyry and covers the majority of the required engineering services related to the implementation of the project. The value of the order was not disclosed.

 

The assignment will be executed during the autumn of this year, and the new board machine is scheduled to start up in the first quarter of 2016. The capacity of the new board machine is approximately 400,000 metric tpy of folding boxboard. 

"This project is a continuation of the long cooperation between Metsä Board and Pöyry, and strengthens Pöyry's position as the world's leading pulp and paper engineering consultancy, having delivered projects for 80% of the world's major pulp and paper companies," said Nicholas Oksanen, president, Industry Business Group, Pöyry.