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Metso to Deliver Lignin Separation Technology to Domtar's Plymouth Mill
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Helsinki, Finland, 15 December 2011 -- Metso will supply the world’s first commercial installation of LignoBoost technology to Domtar in North America. The equipment will be intergrated with the Plymouth, North Carolina, pulp mill. The process separates and collects lignin from pulping liquor. This order is an important breakthrough for Metso’s patented technology. The value of the order is not disclosed.

Separation of a portion of the mill’s total lignin production off-loads the recovery boiler and allows an increase in pulp production capacity. The lignin recovered will be used for internal and external applications.

“This project ... will allow pulp mills to have a new more profitable value stream from a product that was traditionally burned in a recovery boiler,” said Gene Christiansen, general manager – Business Development Innovations at Metso’s Power Business Line for North America in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The LignoBoost project is based on the 24 ton per day demonstration plant in Bäckhammar in Sweden. The Bäckhammar plant ha been owned and operated by Innventia since 2006. In 2008, Metso acquired the technology from Innventia and the companies have since then been working together on the commercialization of the process.

The plant will be in commercial operation at Plymouth in early 2013.The order is included in the Energy and Environmental Technology’s fourth quarter 2011 orders received.

Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) is the largest integrated manufacturer and marketer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America and the second largest in the world based on production capacity, and is also a manufacturer of papergrade, fluff, and specialty pulp. The company designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide range of business, commercial printing, publishing, converting, and specialty papers. Domtar also produces a complete line of incontinence care products and distributes washcloths. Domtar owns and operates ArivaTM, an extensive network of strategically located paper distribution facilities. The company employs approximately 8800 people. To learn more, visit www.domtar.com.

Metso (www.metso.com) is a global supplier of sustainable technology and services for mining, construction, power generation, automation, recycling, and the pulp and paper industries.The company has about 29,000 employees in more than 50 countries.
 


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