Union Paper Mills' order to Vaahto covers novelty spray-technology, runability components, starch make-down expansion and general revamping of PM2 at its Dubai plant. The machine, producing improved test-liner, has a paper width at reel of 3.7 meters. The design speed after the rebuild will be to 600 meters per minute.Spray-sizing technology has been developed by Vaahto in close co-operation with German VIB GmbH, which will supply the actual Fluidtech-spray-booms of the system. Prior to this delivery VIB has tested the system at various pilot applications and at an industrial mill scale operation. The great advantage of Vaahto's and VIB's spraying technology is, according to a Vaahto spokesperson, the high solid content of the starch, resulting in huge savings in energy consumption. In Dubai, Union Paper Mills can run the machine with 150 meters per minute higher speed than with traditional pond-sizing equipment.In starch preparation Vaahto has been teaming up with a new Finnish company called Adpap. The knowledgeable team, based in Turku, has within a very short period of time proven to be an agile partner for Vaahto Pulp & Paper Machinery in demanding rebuild projects.The equipment to the Dubai plant will be shipped in the summer to meet the mill's annual shutdown in early August.The Korean order to Vaahto from Asia Paper is a dilution control retrofit for a Finnish made headbox on the Chungwon mill's PM3.