January 2006

Another delivery of KPM’s Consistency products to CMPC in Chile.

Co-operation between Kajaani Process Measurements Ltd. (KPM) and CMPC S.A in Chile continues with a new major supply of consistency transmitters and sampling devices. The latest delivery is for a new pulp mill of CMPC Celulosa S.A., in Santa Fe, Chile. During recent years KPM has delivered several projects and products for CMPC’s mills.

CMPC Celulosa S.A. is building another pulp line in Santa Fe. When completed in 2006, the new line will produce 780,000 t/a of Bleached Eucalyptus market pulp (BEK). The Santa Fe mill, located near Nacimiento (500 km south of Santiago), currently has one fiberline producing 370,000 t/a of BEK. Line 2 will have over double of capacity compared to Line 1, boosting the mill's total market pulp output to over 1.1 million tons per year.

CMPC Celulosa is the Pulp Business subsidiary of Empresas CMPC S.A., established in the year 1920 as forestry integrated company, using only man planted forests. It is the oldest paper producing company in Chile and CMPC operates three pulp mills and many paper mills in Chile. CMPC group is the fourth biggest pulp and paper manufacturer in Latin America.

The main supplier of the project is Andritz, which delivers complete line - from the digester to finished bales of market pulp as well as major chemical recovery systems. KPM’s delivery of consistency transmitters and pulp sampling devices supplement Andritz’s complete project supply in consistency, as e.g. in Veracel delivery in 2005.