The Botnia Fray Bentos mill started again after production stop

The production at the Botnia Fray Bentos mill was halted on Tuesday 29 January
due to a detected leakage in the piping of the fibreline, and some of the
bleached pulp came out from a tank. At no stage was there any risk to the
personnel or the environment. 

Such unexpected events are not uncommon during the start-up phase of a pulp
mill. In order to guarantee best possible operating conditions, Botnia
continues to maintain a pool of foreign experts on-site whose task is to test
all equipment as the fine tuning of the processes will continue. The mill has
already reached 90% of the planned production capacity. 

Simultaneously with the stoppage, some other scheduled maintenance works were
performed. 

The production was started up again last night and the mill is functioning
normally.