Press Release 

Lenningen/Mikkeli 5.5.2009

Papierfabrik Scheufelen GmbH + Co. KG and Savcor Forest have agreed on co-operation to improve Scheufelen paper mill performance. Priorities of the project are paper machine runnability improvement and raw material and chemical optimization.

During the project, Scheufelen paper process will be equipped with modern process measurement equipment. Savcor Forest IT GmbH delivers project-related instrumentation, such as Savcor Redox measurement system for stock preparation, Savcor Sonica^™ Air Content Analyzer to PM wet end and Savcor Wedge^™ Process Diagnostics System. With up-to date process information, modern IT, data diagnostics tools and expertise of Scheufelen and Savcor personnel, the mill process efficiency will improve to a new level.

Savcor Wedge^™ Process Diagnostics System collects, stores, shows and analyzes the process history. Unlike to traditional process historians, Savcor Wedge^™ has a unique capability to find reasons behind the process phenomena of interest. Wedge^™ defines a new information system category: Process Diagnostics. A statistical diagnosis based on process-wide search of potential reasons for the problem allows you to base your corrective actions on facts, not opinions.

Savcor Sonica^™Air Content Analyzer measures continuously the entrained air in the paper machine stock. The measurement is based on attenuation and scattering of ultrasound caused by bubbles in the stock. Analyzer is regularly and automatically calibrated using a compression method. Ultrasound and compression methods are used for measuring the entrained air (bubbles). Dissolved air can be measured with expansion method in which the dissolved air is released in vacuum.

Savcor Redox Monitoring System is a continuous on-line measurement device for process chemical balance.  System provides real-time information of the process chemistry allowing the operators to adjust the process to a more efficient direction.

Further information:

Markku Hämäläinen, Papierfabrik Scheufelen GmbH + Co. KG, +49 170 854 6590 Matti Häkkinen, Business Unit Manager, Savcor Forest Oy, +358 40 521 6068

Rüdiger Kornhoff, Managing Director, Savcor IT GmbH  + 49 173 82 54 032  Martin Bergner, Manager Pulp & Paper, Savcor IT GmbH  +49 (152) 29591937  

Information about Papierfabrik Scheufelen GmbH + Co. KG:

Scheufelen, the world's largest producer of Real Art paper is located in Lenningen, 30 km far away from Stuttgart (Germany). It is owned by the Finnish company Powerflute Oy. The paper mill was established in 1855. In 1892 Scheufelen became the first mill on the European continent to produce coated paper, called Real Art paper. Scheufelen has remained the market leader in this segment. 

www.scheufelen.com

Information about Savcor:

Savcor Group is a Finnish, family-owned, global industrial technology company with 90 M€ revenue and personnel of 1700. The Company was founded in 1981 and the Head Office is located in Mikkeli, Finland.

The core technology platform that underpins the operations of Savcor Group is driven by a comprehensive understanding of metallurgy, material technology, surface chemistry, physics and statistical mathematics. The first Savcor invention was an electro-chemical corrosion prevention system for the pulp and paper industry.

FIN-50100 Mikkeli, Finland          

+358 20 774 774                             

+358 20774 7770

www.savcor.com