Stora Enso Oyj, Veitsiluoto Mill recovery boiler

Metso's Pulp, Paper and Power business, the future Valmet, and Stora Enso have signed an agreement on the single-drum conversion of Stora Enso Veitsiluoto Mill's recovery boiler. The conversion will be completed in the fall of 2014. The value of the order will not be disclosed. The order is included in Pulp, Paper and Power's third quarter 2013 orders received. Veitsiluoto Mill is situated in Kemi, Finland, and is part of Stora Enso's Printing and Reading business area. The annual capacity of the integrated mill, with four paper machines and a pulp mill, groundwood mill, sawmill and sheeting plant, totals a million metric tons of office paper and coated magazine paper, as well as 160,000 cubic meters of sawn timber. The pulp mill's annual capacity of 375,000 metric tons is used as raw material for office papers. Veitsiluoto Mill has a workforce of roughly 1,000, around 750 of whom work for Stora Enso.