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Metso supplies board machine to Lee & Man Paper in China

Metso Paper will supply Lee & Man Paper Co. with a kraftliner board
machine to its Hongmei mill in Guangdong province, China. The new PM
17 will have an annual capacity of 400,000 metric tons and is
scheduled to start up in the beginning of 2009. The total value of
the order is approximately EUR 40 million. The new 3-ply board
machine is a single-supplier delivery from Metso Paper.

Metso has supplied Lee & Man two board machines which have started up
in China this year (Changshu PM 8 and Hongmei PM 9). The board
machine (PM 15) is currently under delivery to Lee & Man's new site
in Vietnam.

Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is one of China's largest
containerboard producers. The company, founded in 1994 and listed in
the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, has three containerboard mills with a
combined annual production capacity of 2.2 million metric tons.

Metso is a global engineering and technology corporation with 2006
net sales of approximately EUR 5 billion. Its more than 26,000
employees in more than 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:
Kaarlo Hedman, Vice President, Sales, Paper and Board business line,
Metso Paper
Tel. +358 40 585 9943

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



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