Metso's delivery will include a forming section rebuild, modernization of the press and dryer sections and a new soft calender. The paper machine has a wire width of 8.7 meters, a design speed of 1,100 m/min and it will produce over 500 tonnes of newsprint daily.

Guangzhou Paper is one of the oldest newsprint makers in China. It is also the mill to which Metso Paper made its first paper machine delivery in the People's Republic of China 50 years ago.

Guangzhou Paper operates five newsprint machines with a combined production capacity of 470,000 t/a.

Metso is a global engineering and technology corporation with 2005 net sales of approximately EUR 4.2 billion.