Posted on 3/19/2016
A bio-product wood-processing mill, under construction by Metsä Group in Äänekoski, Finland, will be the home of a process-pump package from Sulzer. Sulzer will deliver its Ahlstar process pumps, MCE medium-consistency pumps, and agitators and vacuum pumps. The project is scheduled for completion during the third quarter of 2017.
Metsä Fibre expects to invest EUR 1.2 billion ($1.32 billion) to construct the new mill, one of the largest investments ever made in Finland’s wood-processing industry. Annual mill capacity will be 1.3 million tons of pulp production--800,000 tons of softwood pulp and 500,000 tons of hardwood pulp. The mill also will produce bio products such as tall oil, turpentine, lig...