I RECENTLY TOOK PART in an editors' tour of Finland, with a big difference; there were no pulp and paper mills on the program! Why would our hosts, Metso, even dream of taking up our valuable time outside of the pulp and paper industry to show us technology that is so 'off message'? Actually, it was a clever move as some 50% of Metso's power business comes from the pulp and paper industry and this clearly emphasizes the position of the recently formed division within the group, Metso Pulp, Paper and Power. And one overall conclusion of this tour was that power and energy - in all its shapes and sizes - is going to be instrumental to this industry going forward, and the trip unearthed all sorts of new things, some of which are mind bogglingly ambitious in their scale and application.
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