Metso to supply recausticizing plant to Botnia’s Kemi mill in Finland

May 12, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. Metso has received an order to supply a recausticizing plant for Metsä-Botnia’s Kemi mill in the city of Kemi in Finland. The new plant will replace an existing recausticizing line and is scheduled to start up during autumn 2011. The value of the order will not be disclosed, company said in a statement received by Lesprom Network. Metso's scope of supply covers a complete recausticizing plant comprising a clarifier, a decanter centrifuge, a green liquor cooler, a slaker, causticizers, a PDW filter (pressure disc filter for white liquor) and storage tanks. The new recausticizing plant is designed for 7,000 cubic metres of white liquor per day. The delivery also includes basic and detail engineering for piping, erection and start-up. The new recausticizing plant will lower the maintenance costs and improve the efficiency and environmental performance at the Metsä-Botnia Kemi mill and will be the first recausticizing plant to be delivered by Metso to Finland.