Klabin Pulp and Paper Industry Contract

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Klabin Pulp and Paper Industry Contract

Suez signs contract with Brazil pulp and paper producer

SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT strengthens its position in the industrial water market with a 30 million euros contract for KLABIN, the world's leading Pulp and Paper producer in Brazil

Degremont, a subsidiary of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, was awarded a 30 million euroscontract for the engineering, procurement and construction of water treatment facilities forKlabin1, one of the main players in the Pulp and Paper industry in Brazil. Klabin is building a 2 billion euros Greenfield Kraft pulp mill in Ortigueira (Paraná State),south of Brazil, known as Puma Project. The start of the new plant's production is forecastfor the first quarter of 2016. With the new plant, Klabin's production capacity will doubleuntil 2016. The mill will have an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tons, of which 1.1million tons in short fiber and 400 thousand tons in long fiber, part of which is to beconverted into fluff pulp2. The main challenges for the Pulp & Paper industry rely in guaranteeing the water needs toensure the continuity of production and adapting operations accordingly to marketfluctuation while still ensuring reliability and high-level quality services for water treatment. In order to meet the high quality and quantity water needs, Degremont will provide aprocess water plant, equipped with the Densadeg® technology followed by Aquazur® filters,and a boiler feed water plant, equipped with Ion Exchange Process. Degremont's proven expertise in water treatment for the Pulp & Paper industry. Itsexperience in dealing with turn-key projects under tight schedule offering the optimumtechnologies and its ability to propose averycompetitivecommercial offer weredetermining factors in winning this new contract. With an hourly capacity of 5,900 m3 for the process water plant and 600 m3 for the boilerfeed, the new facilities are planned to start up operations in October 2015. DEGREMONT
A subsidiary of the SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT group, Degremont has been the world water treatmentspecialist for more than 70 years. Operating in more than 70 countries with over 5,000 employees,Degremont generated revenues of €1,110 million in 2013.
SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT
Natural resources are not infinite. Each day, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT (Paris: SEV, Brussels: SEVB) and
its subsidiaries deal with the challenge of protecting resources by providing innovative solutions toindustry and to millions of people. SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT supplies drinking water to 92 million people,provides wastewater treatment services for 65 million people and collects the waste produced by 52million people. SUEZENVIRONNEMENT has 79,550 employees and, with its presence on five continents,is a world leader exclusively dedicated to water and waste management services. SUEZENVIRONNEMENT generated total revenues of EUR 14.6 billion in 2013. Source: Degremont

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