<B>Voith Lands Equipment Deals with Chinese Companies</B>

Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Ltd., a Chinese company, placed an order with Voith Paper for a coating machine and two off-line calendars for its mill in Shouguang, China. The mill produces 450,000 tons of paper and paperboard a year.

To meet growing demand the company is building a new line at the mill. The new line will produce woodfree coated papers.

According to Voith, Jiangxi Paper, another Chinese paper company, placed an order for a complete newsprint machine. The machine will allow the paper company to produce an additional 540 tons per day of newsprint.