<b>Thermo Black Clawson Sells Recycle System to Solvay</b>

Solvay Paperboard, Syracuse, NY, has purchased a recycle system of Thermo Black Clawson equipment for a new medium paper machine. The system includes a DR Hydrapulper pulping system, Hydrapurge II-X detrasher, Liquid Cyclone cleaner, Ultra-Clone forward cleaners, Ultra-V pressure screens for the coarse and fine screening loops, X-Clone(tm) through flow cleaners and Ultra-V approach flow screens. Thermo Black Clawson has been the primary supplier for two other recycling systems that are currently running successfully in the mill.

The $2 million system will process OCC, increasing the mill's production to meet their demand for medium used in corrugated containers.  Scheduled for start up next July, the new system will bring Solvay's capacity to 1,800 tons per day of linerboard and corrugated medium.