Metso Oyj - Company Announcement

Metso to rebuild Sabah pulp mill in Malaysia

Metso Corporation Company release on June 9, 2008 at 1.00 p.m. local
time

Metso Paper will supply Sabah Forest Industries (SFI), a subsidiary
of India's largest paper company Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT),
a major rebuild of its pulp mill in Sabah, Malaysia. The rebuild
project will be started during the second half of 2009. The value of
the order is approximately EUR 30 million.

The order includes a new wood handling line, rebuild of the cooking
plant and the fiber line and an upgrade of the white liquor plant.

The new wood handling line will include log feeding, debarking,
chipper and screen room. The cooking plant will be completely
rebuilt. The rebuild of the fiber line includes installation of new
wash presses, oxygen reactors, medium concistency pumps and mixers.
The upgrade of the white liquor plant will include a rebuild of the
recausticizing plant including pressure disc filter technology for
white liquor separation and a number of main machinery including
slaker and filter as well as an upgrade of the lime kiln.

Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT) is India's largest manufacturer
of writing and printing paper and part of the US$ 3 billion Avantha
Group, one of India's leading business conglomerates. Sabah Forest
Industries (SFI), a subsidiary of BILT, is Malaysia's largest pulp
and paper company.


Metso is a global engineering and technology corporation with 2007
net sales of over EUR 6 billion. Its over 27,000 employees in
approximately 50 countries serve customers in the pulp and paper
industry, rock and minerals processing, the energy industry and
selected other industries.
www.metso.com


Further information for the press, please contact:
Per-Åke Färnstrand, President, Fiber business line, Metso Paper, tel.
+46 70 63 33 946

Björn Olausson, Area Vice President, Sales, Fiber and Power business
lines, Asia- Pacific, Metso Paper, tel. +65 9621 1836

Further information for investors, please contact:
Johanna Sintonen, Vice President, Investor Relations, Metso
Corporation, tel. +358 20 484 3253

Metso Corporation


Olli Vaartimo
Executive Vice President and CFO


Kati Renvall
Vice President, Corporate Communications

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