GL&V awarded three major contracts totaling C$12.9 million

Jun 22, 2005. /Lesprom Network/. Groupe Laperrière & Verreault Inc. is pleased to announce that its Process Group (Dorr Oliver Eimco) and Pulp and Paper Group together have been awarded three major contracts totaling C$12.9 million (US$10.4 million), to deliver pulp and paper equipment in various regions of the world. The Pulp and Paper Group was awarded two multi-million dollar orders to supply BTF Headbox Systems™. As part of a Southern U.S.A. containerboard mill upgrade, it will provide a complete BTF Headbox System including the BTF™ central distributor feed system and the BTF™ hydraulic headbox with automatic dilution control, along with screening equipment and a fourdrinier extension. Delivery and installation are scheduled for completion in early 2006. This is the second BTF Headbox System to be purchased by this board producer, shortly after the highly successful start-up of a first BTF Headbox System at another facility. In addition, the Pulp and Paper Group will supply, before the end of 2005, a BTF™ headbox with automatic dilution control to a pulp and paper producer in Indonesia. Since 2001, GL&V has sold 43 BTF units. The BTF headbox technology is known to be among the most efficient on the market for improving sheet formation uniformity and paper quality, while increasing operational flexibility. In the last quarters, the Pulp and Paper Group has been very successful in applying its market strategy, which is to concentrate on the spare parts market and value-added modernization services in North America and Europe, where pulp and paper manufacturers tend to upgrade their existing equipment for the production of specialty products, while enhancing its presence in emerging markets. For its part, Dorr-Oliver Eimco secured a large-scale order in China to supply a complete recausticizing system for a greenfield pulp mill, being built in the Guizhou province. Upon completion in March 2007, this facility will become the world’s largest pulp mill using bamboo as a fiber source, and will produce 200,000 tons of bleached pulp per year. From its technology center based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Dorr-Oliver Eimco will supply all the engineering, process design, procurement, project management, key technologies and supervision services, while the balance of the manufacturing will be outsourced to GL&V’s worldwide network of subcontractors. The recausticizing unit will be delivered by the end of GL&V’s fiscal year 2005-2006, and will produce 4,000 cubic meters a day of cooking liquor. This contract confirms Dorr Oliver Eimco’s positioning as a global leader in supplying recausticizing systems and technology to the international pulping industry, and its growing presence in Asia. Last year, Dorr-Oliver Eimco commissioned another major greenfield recausticizing system in China for the world’s largest single line mill producing bleached kraft pulp sourced from eucalyptus and acacia, located on Hainan island. Founded in 1975, GL&V is a world leader in liquid/solid separation technologies used in a large number of industrial, municipal and environmental processes. Its Process Group (Dorr-Oliver Eimco) offers a broad range of products and services intended for metal and ore processing, as well as industrial and environmental processes used in various other sectors such as chemicals, petrochemicals, food, pulp and paper and energy. Through its Pulp and Paper Group, GL&V also specializes in the design and marketing of equipment for various stages of pulp and paper production. GL&V has more than 1,500 employees and is present in 40 countries on six continents.