Pöyry - Company Announcement

PÖYRY APPOINTED MAIN ENGINEERING CONSULTANT FOR AMCOR'S NEW PAPER MACHINE PROJECT IN AUSTRALIA

PÖYRY PLC          Company Announcement 8 September 2008 at 2.15 p.m.

PÖYRY APPOINTED MAIN ENGINEERING CONSULTANT FOR AMCOR'S NEW PAPER
MACHINE PROJECT IN AUSTRALIA

Pöyry has been selected as the main engineering consultant for
Amcor's new B9 linerboard machine project at their existing Botany
Mill in Sydney, Australia. The value of the assignment is not
disclosed.

The new board paper machine has a design capacity of 345 000 t/a of
linerboard and testliner produced from 100 per cent recycled fibre.
Production is scheduled to start in the second half of 2010. The new
project includes a new stock preparation plant. Raw material will be
100 per cent Mixed Waste Paper and Australian OCC. The new paper
machine will replace the two older existing paper machines at the
Botany Mill.

Pöyry's services include basic engineering, detail engineering, field
engineering and procurement services.

This assignment is a further confirmation of Pöyry's competence in
the field of board paper machines producing packaging grades.

Pöyry is a global consulting and engineering firm focusing on the
energy, forest industry and infrastructure & environment sectors.
Pöyry's net sales in 2007 amounted to about EUR 720 million and it
employs 8000 experts.

PÖYRY PLC

Heikki Malinen
President and CEO

Teuvo Salminen
Deputy to President and CEO

Additional information by:
Otto von Ubisch, President, Business Area North America, Forest
Industry Business Group, Vancouver, Canada
Tel. +1 604 689 0344
John Lindahl, President, Forest Industry Business Group, Finland
Tel. +358 10 33 22951

www.poyry.com

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