Day 7 (Audrey Cook)

Monday night we went to dinner at a trendy BBQ restaurant in Tampere with the marketing manager from Metso. It was a delicious 3 course meal that ended in an amazing chocolate pie! Tuesday morning we got to sleep in a bit because our bus left our hotel at 8:30. Breakfast was phenomenal again with a huge selection of fish and bread as well as coffee and tea. First stop was Metso automation! Our whole morning was presentations focusing on Metso's quality control such as rucking variability with reduced bleaching chemicals and increased automation in process control. We had a wonderful three course lunch with Metso automation which we greatly appreciated prior to heading out for a tour of Metso's FAT room. FAT stands for factory acceptance test. After this tour we went to Metsaboard. After a brief presentation in which we learned Metsa is actually owned by Finnish forest owners, we got a tour of board machine 3. Metsaboard only produces paperboard, and this was the first board machine any of us had seen. After Metsa we went to visit Metso's Tako mill where they do research and development mostly for power. We saw their bio fuel developments as well as their boilers.

Also check out this video of us at the Metsaboard facility!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUv4_P2D6E4&feature=youtu.be