Aug 17, 2006. /Lesprom Network/. Finnish consulting and engineering group Poyry Oyj said on August 16, 2006 it won an engineering contract to rebuild a board machine of Russian St. Petersburg cardboard and polygraphic mill. No financial details were available. Poyry will provide the services between 2006 and 2008 and the rebuilt machine is scheduled to be operational from June 2008. The agreement includes partial basic and complete implementation engineering for the rebuild of the machine's production line. Construction supervision services will also be supplied by several Poyry units in Finland, Poland and Russia. Poyry partner, Russian consulting and engineering company Guiprobum Engineering will be in charge of local permitting and adaptation engineering. The rebuild is aimed at improving the basic quality indicators of coated packaging paper grades Atlantika and Neva to meet their European equivalents GD-2 and GD-3. The project will also increase the board machine's annual production capacity to 190 000 tonnes from 110 000 tonnes, as well as reduce operating costs. St. Petersburg cardboard and polygraphic mill is jointly owned by Russian forestry group Ilim Pulp Corp. and German building materials maker KNAUF. Poyry provides services for the energy and forestry industries, as well as for the infrastructure and environment sectors.