Tieto to modernize mill systems in M-real's board mills

Tieto Corporation                  PRESS RELEASE                3 February 2011 at 2.00 pm EET

Tieto is modernizing the mill systems in M-real's board mills in Finland, which will be completed by the end of 2012. According to the agreement signed by the parties, the mills are implementing the latest versions of the Tieto Integrated Paper Solution (TIPS). Tieto is also responsible for the maintenance service of the systems.

The TIPS manufacturing execution solution will allow further standardization of production management business processes as well as the seamless integration of production with M-real's SAP Enterprise Resource Planning. The benefits include improved visibility of information that is critical to the business.

"Tieto's solution meets our expectations very well, and the special features required by our mill operations are easy to integrate with it. The strength of the solution is its user-friendliness. We have used TIPS for ten years, and during this time Tieto has developed the solution in such a way that we have now at our disposal new features that are beneficial to our operational environment," says Jukka Kettunen, responsible for production at M-real.

"I believe that our strengthened co-operation will further improve both the maximization of the availability of M-real's mills and the standardization of their business processes. The standardized toolset of the new TIPS solution supports more efficiently the optimization of the production capacity of the mills," says Ari Järvelä, responsible for Finnish and Baltic businesses.

Hundreds of paper, pulp and board mills all over the world use Tieto's systems on a daily basis to manage their processes.

M-real's Consumer Packaging business area is the world's leading producer of innovative premium folding boxboard, coated white top liners and wallpaper base. The products are excellent for the packaging of cosmetics, food products and confectionaries, for example.

For further information, please contact:

Timo Jäätvuori, Director, Sales, Industrial Manufacturing & Services, Tieto, tel. +358 20 725 5520, timo.jaatvuori@tieto.com
Jukka Kettunen, Senior Vice President, Production, M-real, tel. +358 50 598 8506, jukka.kettunen@m-real.com

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Tieto is the leading IT service company in Northern Europe providing IT and product engineering services. Our highly specialized IT solutions and services complemented by a strong technology platform create tangible business benefits for our local and global customers. As a trusted transformation partner, we are close to our customers and understand their unique needs. With more than 17 000 experts, we aim to become a leading service integrator creating the best service experience in IT. www.tieto.com

M-real is Europe's leading primary fibre paperboard producer and a major paper supplier. The company's customers include brand owners, carton printers, converters, publishers, printing houses, merchants and office suppliers. M-real supports its customers' businesses by providing high-performance paperboards and quality papers for consumer packaging, communications and advertising end-uses. M-real's business areas are Consumer Packaging, Office Papers, Speciality Papers and Market Pulp and Energy. M-real is headquartered in Finland. In 2009, the company's sales totalled EUR 2.4 billion, and it has approximately 4,700 employees. M-real, part of Metsäliitto Group, is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. www.m-real.com