Metso will rebuild two board machines for M-real in Finland to increase capacity and improve quality: the cartonboard machine at the Simpele mill and the kraftliner machine at the Kemiart Liners mill in Kemi. The start-up of the rebuilt Simpele machine is scheduled for the second quarter of 2011 and that of the rebuilt Kemiart Liners machine for the third quarter of 2011. The combined value of the orders is below EUR 20 million. The order is included in Paper and Fiber Technology’s Q4 orders received.

Metso's delivery to the Simpele mill will include a rebuild of the forming section, press section including a new shoe press and the dryer section. After the rebuild, the annual capacity of the Simpele mill will be approx. 300,000 tonnes, making the Simpele machine the biggest folding boxboard machine in Europe.

Metso’s delivery to the Kemiart Liners mill will include a coating section rebuild. Additionally, a coating drying rebuild will replace old gas infrared dryers with energy efficient high-drying-capacity air dryers. The rebuild will further improve the coated white top liner quality produced.

M-real is Europe’s leading primary fibre paperboard producer and a major paper supplier. The company’s customers include brand owners, carton printers, converters, publishers, printing houses, merchants and office suppliers. In 2009, the company’s sales totalled EUR 2.4 billion, and it has approximately 4,700 employees. M-real is part of the Metsäliitto Group.

Metso is a global supplier of sustainable technology and services for mining, construction, power generation, automation, recycling and the pulp and paper industries. We have about 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com

For further information for the press, please contact:
Mikko Tani, Vice President, Sales, Paper business line, Metso, tel. +358 40 564 2007

Pöyry signed a cooperation agreement with Aalto University on 1 December 2010 which will support the university's research, development and education efforts. As part of the agreement and in accordance with the decision made at the 2010 Annual General Meeting, Pöyry has approved EUR 300 000 to be donated to Aalto University's foundation.
 
Aalto University's multidisciplinary focus areas from digitalisation and services, sustainable use of energy and natural resources, and human living environment are in line with Pöyry's strategic goals. With the cooperation agreement Pöyry aims to secure its top-level know-how and resources in Finland now and in the future.
 
"The strategic goals of Pöyry and Aalto University are very much aligned. With our Balanced sustainability approach and high-level know-how, Pöyry seeks solutions to future challenges. One of the main goals of this high-level cooperation is to combine the creation of new knowledge with direct utilisation in certain key projects. We also aim to distribute knowledge we represent to future experts in order to do our part to ensure Finland stays at the forefront of knowledge and development in these areas", says Heikki Malinen, President and CEO.
 
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Additional information by:
Heikki Malinen, President and CEO, Pöyry PLC, Finland
Contacts to Jaana Pihlajaniemi, tel. +358 10 33 22399
Risto Laukkanen, Senior Vice President, Knowledge Management, tel. +358 10 33 22110
 
Pöyry is a global consulting and engineering company dedicated to balanced sustainability. We offer our clients integrated management consulting, total solutions for complex projects and efficient, best-in-class design and supervision. Our in-depth expertise extends to the fields of energy, industry, urban & mobility and water & environment. Pöyry has 7000 experts operating in about 50 countries, locally and globally. Pöyry's net sales in 2009 were EUR 674 million and the company's shares are quoted on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (Pöyry PLC: POY1V).

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UPM has partnered with Monocle – a leading business and cultural affairs magazine – to produce the Monocle Finland Survey.

Printed on three UPM grades, the Monocle Finland Survey covers all aspects of Finnish culture, economy and design. It is part of series of national surveys produced by Monocle which has previously included Lebanon and Sao Paulo in Brazil.

Two of Monocle’s London-based editors, Hugo Macdonald and Tom Morris along with Nordic correspondent, Elna Nykänen Andersson travelled throughout Finland, meeting with the nation’s leading thinkers, politicians, designers and entrepreneurs. They also worked with a host of local writers and photographers.

Tyler Brûlé, Monocle’s editor in chief, believes that the timing of the survey could not be better. "Finland is undergoing regeneration in many fields, with a select group of the country’s finest business people, academics, opinion builders, artists and sportsmen redefining brand Finland. We are excited to be in Finland at such a dynamic time, and are proud that Finland is our first nationwide survey in this part of the world.”

UPM papers were chosen for their high qualities both in terms of reproduction and finishing. UPM Finesse Premium Silk was chosen for the cover, UPM Fine for the text pages and UPM Finesse Matt for a special four-page feature on UPM – The Biofore Company.

"It is extremely pleasing to be able to collaborate with a high profile brand such as Monocle. Their commitment to quality design and print provides a perfect match to UPM's paper offering." says Marketing Director Kari Ylönen from UPM's Paper Business Group.

To find out more visit the Monocle website at: http://www.monocle.com/Finland/

For more information, please contact:
Mr Will Stone, Head of Communications UK & Ireland, UPM, tel. +44 (0) 7841 493447
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Ms Emily Smith, PR Manager, Monocle, tel. +44 (0) 20 7725 4388
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About UPM
UPM leads the integration of bio and forest industries into a new, sustainable and innovation-driven future. Our products are made of renewable raw materials and are recyclable. UPM consists of three Business Groups: Energy and pulp, Paper, and Engineered materials. The Group employs around 24,000 people and it has production facilities in 15 countries. In 2008, UPM's sales amounted to EUR 9.5 billion. UPM's shares are listed on the Helsinki stock exchange. UPM – The Biofore Company – www.upm.com

About Monocle
Launched in February 2007, Monocle is a premium media brand with magazine, web and retail divisions. Headquartered in London, Monocle delivers a single, seamless voice in both print and digital form to a discerning, highly educated global audience of men and women. Focusing on global affairs, business, culture and design, our mission is to keep an eye on the world.

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group will deliver a Collaborative Production Management (CPM) system to Kotkamills Oy, Finland. Kotkamills Oy manufactures matt coated printing paper and laminating papers as well as sawn products. The system supports company’s Kotka paper mill’s production planning, warehouse, quality and process information handling as well as order management, invoicing and sales. The new system will replace several previous systems and thus brings improved quality, savings and controllability to the mill’s operations.

Paper manufacturing is a complex process and there are several factors which affect to the process. In order to maximize its productivity the mill must be able to react to the possible changes in the manufacturing process immediately.

”Integrated collaborative production management system increases the visibility of the order-production-delivery process thus enabling the fast reaction time for the possible changes in the processes. The integrated solution will increase the amount and usability of the information needed in the decision making process. The optimal use of materials and production capacity increases profitability”, says Jyrki Juvonen, Production Line Manager from ABB.

”After thorough preliminary studies, Kotkamills Oy decided to replace most of its current order-delivery process systems with a new highly integrated collaborative production management system delivered by ABB. The new system will fulfill the current challenges of Kotkamills Oy by meeting the company’s needs for functionalities and cost competitiveness. Also ABB’s reputation as a reliable supplier for high quality collaborative production management systems eased the decision making process. Kotkamills Oy expects from the new system user-friendliness, operation reliability, as well as fast and reliable production and warehouse management. In addition to this the equipment and solutions are expected to bring cost savings both in maintenance costs of the new system as well as managing the processes at the mill”, says Peter Danielsbacka, Project Manager from Kotkamills Oy.

Currently over 100 pulp and paper mills worldwide use ABB’s intelligent Collaborative Production Management systems. The new system will be taken into use at the company’s Kotka mill in spring 2011.

Kotkamills Oy is a forest products company based in Finland. The company specializes in laminating papers, matt coated bulky paper and sawn products. Kotkamills Oy has two production sites in Finland and a subsidiary, L.P. Pacific Films Sdn. Bhd., in Malaysia. The company was established in July 1st, 2010 when a global private equity firm OpenGate Capital acquired the Kotka mills of Stora Enso along with Stora Enso’s laminating paper operations in Malaysia. The company employs around 500 people.

cpmPlus (www.abb.com/cpm) is ABB’s Collaborative Production Management suite of applications. cpmPlus provides process and production management, advanced optimization and connectivity solutions for the process industries.

ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 117,000 people.

For help with any technical terms in this release, please go to: www.abb.com/glossary

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has secured a contract to deliver the paper machine and winder sectional drive systems for  Saica Containerboard’s new PM11 paper production line. The new mill is located in Manchester, England.

The Comprehensive paper machine delivery will help new PM11 mill save energy and operating costs.

Saica is a family owned company and  market leader in southern Europe in the manufacturing of corrugated paper. The company has a total  production capacity of over 2 million tons a year, and is focused on quality, sustainability, safety and innovation. ABB’s delivery will help Saica’s new mill operate at top efficiency while maintaining high product quality.  Saica chose ABB for this project after a successful installation of the same technology on its PM10 production line.

ABB’s PMC800 Direct Drive solution will reduce overall equipment investment costs by eliminating gear boxes, encoders, primary couplings, gear lubrication. ABB’s unique Direct Torque Control (DTC), combined with AC800 drives control system, enable encoderless motor control and operation in Paper Machines.

In addition to eleminating the external gears boxes, the highly efficient Direct Drive solution provides energy savings throughout the system lifecycle. Its16 installed permanent magnet motors are mostly located at the dryer, representing less than 20% of the total drive power. Dryer section electrical energy losses are 17% lower than that of a traditional drive system, with estimated energy savings over 20 years projected at more than $400,000. ABB’s solution requires less maintenance and minimizes downtime, as well as reduces initial construction costs, resulting in lower overall system lifetime costs.

The new paper machine PM11 will be ready for start-up in January 2012.

ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 117,000 people.

For more info contact:

Eamon Devlin
Tel:  + 353429385100
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NewPage Corporation today announced the release of Getting Personal, the fourteenth issue in its "Ed" series of educational brochures. This new issue points out how the world is connecting audiences at many different communication points, engaging them in very personal ways. Whether print, advertising, mobile or social media, in Ed #14 Getting Personal, readers learn that the most effective messaging utilizes a combination of all these mediums.

Throughout the brochure, Ed shares a number of case studies of leading marketers who reinforce the importance of print in a marketing media mix, achieving maximum customer reach and engagement.

In Ed #14 Getting Personal, readers experience advanced technology now available through the print medium. These include variable printing, QR codes (advanced bar codes, when printed in an advertisement utilizing smartphones direct buyers to specific websites) and augmented reality (an interactive three dimensional online experience that starts on a printed page).

"Despite the continuing talk that print is losing relevance, Ed shows us in Getting Personal that print continues to remain one of the strongest means to deliver a message," says Steve DeVoe, vice president marketing for NewPage. "It's versatile and accessible to all, regardless of age or income, and still preferred among a large segment of consumers for receiving information."

The "Ed" series is a friendly educator of all things paper, printing and design – a source for information and inspiration to help the creative community express their ideas, on-press and on paper. The brochure series is accompanied by the www.EdLivesHere.com Web site.

About NewPage Corporation

Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, NewPage Corporation is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with $3.1 billion in net sales for the year ended December 31, 2009. The company's product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered, newsprint and specialty papers. These papers are used for corporate collateral, commercial printing, magazines, catalogs, books, coupons, inserts, newspapers, packaging applications and direct mail advertising.

NewPage owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia, Canada. These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 4.4 million tons of paper, including approximately 3.2 million tons of coated paper, approximately 1.0 million tons of uncoated paper and approximately 200,000 tons of specialty paper. To learn more, visit www.NewPageCorp.com

SOURCE NewPage Corporation

Pöyry has concluded the statutory employee negotiations announced on 14 October at its largest legal unit in Finland, Pöyry Finland Oy. The negotiations are ongoing in some of the legal units that are covered by the negotiations. Regarding the Finnish operations the estimates announced on 28 October on the need for personnel reductions are still valid. At that time Pöyry announced that the reduction in capacity, of the currently active workforce, is estimated to correspond to 250-350 persons, and in addition to this, the future outlook for the workforce of about 200 persons temporarily laid off will be carefully considered. The estimate includes both operative and non-operative personnel.

Pöyry will make decisions regarding the on-going negotiations only when the negotiations have been concluded with all the legal units covered by the negotiations process. The decisions will then be published.

Development of processes supporting the operations will be continued as part of the operational excellence programme as announced on 28 October 2010.

Pöyry has published related stock exchange releases on 14 and 28 October 2010.

PÖYRY PLC

Additional information by:
Camilla Grönholm, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Pöyry PLC, Finland

Hanna-Mari Tuovinen, Communications Director

Contacts:tel. +358 10 33 21178

Pöyry is a global consulting and engineering company dedicated to balanced sustainability. We offer our clients integrated management consulting, total solutions for complex projects and efficient, best-in-class design and supervision. Our in-depth expertise extends to the fields of energy, industry, urban & mobility and water & environment. Pöyry has 7000 experts operating in about 50 countries, locally and globally. Pöyry's net sales in 2009 were EUR 674 million and the company's shares are quoted on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (Pöyry PLC: POY1V).

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Canfor Pulp Income Fund has announced that Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership (the “Partnership”), in which the Fund has a 49.8% ownership, has received approval from the Canadian federal government for funding of its $100 million capital project to upgrade the recovery boiler at its Northwood Pulp Mill in Prince George, British Columbia. The project is planned for completion in the fourth quarter of 2011 and is expected to provide economic and environmental benefits to the Partnership’s operations.

On October 9, 2009 the Canadian federal government announced the allocation of credits from the billion dollar Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program (the “Program”). The Partnership was allocated credits up to $122.2 million from the Program. The Program is designed as a reimbursement of funds to be spent on qualifying energy and environmental capital projects. Credits may be used until the program end date of March 31, 2012. The Partnership has previously received program approval to proceed with two other qualifying projects totalling $15.6 million.

Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Words such as "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "plans", "will", "believes", "seeks", "estimates", "should", "may", "could" and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. In particular, material forward-looking statements in this press release include the expected effective date of the Arrangement.

In some instances, material assumptions are disclosed elsewhere in this press release in respect of forward-looking statements. Other risks and uncertainties are detailed from time to time in reports filed by the Fund with the securities regulatory authorities in all of the provinces and territories of Canada to which recipients of this press release are referred to for additional information concerning the Fund and Partnership, its prospects and uncertainties relating to the Fund and Partnership and its prospects. Although we believe that the expectations reflected by the forward-looking statements presented in this press release are reasonable, these forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and beliefs and actual events or results may differ materially.

New risk factors may arise from time to time and it is not possible for management to predict all of those risk factors or the extent to which any factor or combination of factors may cause actual events and results, performance and achievements of the Fund and Partnership to be materially different from those contained in forward-looking statements.

The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which such statement is made, are based on current information and expectations and the Fund and Partnership assume to obligation to update such information to reflect later events or developments, except as required by law.

About Canfor Pulp Income Fund
The Fund is an unincorporated, open-ended trust established under the laws of Ontario, created to indirectly acquire and hold an interest in the Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership (the “Partnership”). The Fund indirectly holds a 49.8% interest in the Partnership with Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (a subsidiary of Canfor Corporation) holding the remaining 50.2% interest.

For more information about Canfor Pulp Income Fund and the Partnership, please visit
www.canforpulp.com
Terry Hodgins
Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
Ph: 604-661-5421
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The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), whose standards govern the certification of two-thirds of the total global certified forest area, has today published revised standards for sustainable forest management, chain of custody, standard setting, group certification, and logo usage. The standards were approved at the 14th PEFC General Assembly on 12 November 2010.

“The revised standards represent a milestone for forest certification, especially in terms of social requirements, transparency, and stakeholder participation,” said Ben Gunneberg, PEFC Secretary General.

The revised standard on sustainable forest management addresses important issues such as conversion, chemicals, GMOs, ecologically important forest areas, customary and traditional rights, and the UN Declaration on Indigenous Peoples Rights and ILO Convention 169. PEFC’s requirements for the development of national standards clarifies and further defines criteria related to transparency and public information, and recognizes the nine major groups defined by the Agenda 21 (CSD Major Groups) as the stakeholder groups involved in or concerned by sustainable forest management. The revision process is summarized in the development ( 235 kB) and global public consultation ( 1.3 MB) reports.

The revised chain of custody standard and logo usage rules incorporate the experiences of ten years of certification by thousands of companies globally. Major changes include the recognition of recycled material within PEFC claims, and the inclusion of social requirements.  These social requirements provide an additional layer of confidence to consumers and buyers that elementary rights of workers in companies along the supply chain have been respected,  thereby minimizing business risk for companies along the supply chain. The revision process is summarized in the development ( 142 kB) report.  The transition period for certified companies is twelve month.

Further Information

• Press release: Leading Sustainable Forest Management Standard Approved by PEFC
• Press release: “Historic Moment for Forest Certification”

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• Standard Setting – Requirements (PEFC ST 1001:2010) ( 165 kB)
• Group Forest Management Certification – Requirements (PEFC ST 1002:2010) ( 144 kB)
• Sustainable Forest Management – Requirements (PEFC ST 1003:2010) ( 201 kB)
• Chain of Custody of Forest Based Products – Requirements (PEFC ST 2002:2010) ( 353 kB)
• PEFC Logo Usage Rules – Requirements, 2^nd Edition (PEFC ST 2001:2008) ( 254 kB)
• Amendment No. 1 to PEFC ST 2001:2008, PEFC Logo Usage Rules – Requirements ( 153 kB)

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