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Metsäliitto Wood Products Industry sold the Soinlahti sawmill to Anaika Wood

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Metsäliitto Wood Products Industry has signed contract of divestment of the     
machinery and equipment of the Soinlahti sawmill to Anaika Wood Ltd Oy, and of  
the divestment of the buildings and soil included in the sawmill to Iisalmen    
Teollisuuskylä Oy.                                                              

Soinlahti sawmill in Iisalmi was shut down at the beginning of 2009. So far most
of the production, mainly spruce sawn timber, was delivered to the domestic     
market and to Metsäliitto Wood Products Industry's own upgrading. Anaika Woods  
intends to saw in Soinlahti raw material for components directed to Japan market
those will be processed in the company's other production plants.               

The contract also includes a long-term wood acquisition contract between        
Metsäliitto Wood Supply and Anaika Wood. In the region, Metsäliitto does not    
have any production plants that utilize logs, which means that the contract will
make Metsäliitto's operations more effective and will increase its members'     
timber use opportunities in the region.                                         
	                                                                              
More information:                                                               
Ole Salvén, Group Executive Vice President, Metsäliitto Wood Products Industry, 
Finnforest,telephone +358 10 465 4870 
Juha Mäntylä, Group Executive Vice President, Metsäliitto Wood Supply,          
telephone +358 10 465 4244

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