SAICA signs £4m deal for Poyry to design UK mill paper machine

Pöyry will design the paper machine and the operational layout of the £290m Partington Wharf plant which was given the final go-ahead last month and is due to start production at the start of 2012.

SAICA has announced it will install a PM11 recycled paper machine at the mill, which will produce 425,000 lightweight fluting and testliner grades.

It is estimated that the mill will divert some 450,000 tonnes of used paper destined for export to be recycled in the UK.

Poyry has worked with SAICA before on a number of its operations in Spain and serves customers across 50 countries. It had net sales of EUR 647m in 2009.

SAICA has invested more than £470m in the UK since 2007 when it acquired International Paper's packaging business in the UK.

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