"We are extremely pleased that our advanced stock-preparation equipment has been selected for this major capacity expansion project in Asia," said William Rainville, Kadant’s chairman and CEO. "This order - together with the order for more than $7 million from China that we announced in January - gets us off to a strong start in Asia in 2006. As a leading supplier of innovative technologies and systems to the global pulp and paper industry, we continue to play an important role in Asia's addition of capacity to meet growing demand."