From correspondents in Maharashtra, India, 11:13 AM IST

Metso will supply a new cooking plant and brown stock washing equipment for bagasse based mill Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd., situated in the province of Tamil Nadu in India. The modernized brown stock process, which will replace two minor existing brown stock lines, will be taken into operation in early 2010. The value of the order is close to EUR 14 million (Rs 92 crores) and it will be included in Metso Paper´s orders received.

Metso's scope of delivery comprises cooking, screening, washing based on press technology, and an oxygen delignification stage. The order also includes basic engineering, field instruments as well as erection and start-up supervision services.

The new brown stock process will have a daily design capacity of 600 odt (oven dry tonnes) and will supply pulp to the bleaching process newly supplied and taken into operation by Metso.

The target of the investment is to improve the pulp quality and to minimize the environmental impact by reducing the water consumption, the utilization of chemicals and the emissions outflow.

The entire fiber line, including the brown stock and bleaching processes, will be the world’s largest single line for bagasse.

Source: Press Release Distribution via India PRwire