Benesov, Czech Republic – 4 June 2009 - Mavel, a.s. announced that has signed a contract with Vaasa Engineering Oy to provide two Kaplan turbines for Kuokkastenkoski hydroelectric power plant ("Kuokkastenkoski HPP") in Finland. This project, owned by Pohjois-Karjalan Sahko Oy, is located 120 kilometers north of Kuopio. Mavel will supply two MAVEL KVK/D1450K5 double regulated vertical Kaplan turbines with runner diameter of 1450 mm and five runner blades, generators, draft tube, hydraulic system, lubrication and cooling system. Vaasa will supply all the electrical equipment.

The Kuokkastenkoski HPP has a net head of 10 meters and flow of 20 cubic meters per second. Each turbine unit will provide 880 kW of installed power for total plant installed power of 1.76 MW. The contract was signed in February 2009 with commissioning expected in December 2010.

Mavel, a.s. is a Czech Republic-based manufacturing and engineering company focusing on production of turbines for hydro-electric power plants from 25 kW to 25+ MW. Over the past fifteen years, the company and its subsidiary CKD TurboTechnics, s.r.o. have installed almost 350 turbines at more about 250 sites around the world.

Vaasa Engineering is a Finnish company founded in 1989 and now employing over 395 persons with daughter companies in Norway, Sweden and Russia. The company develops and manufactures automation systems, low and medium voltage switchgears and electrification systems for energy and production processes both for the domestic as well as the international markets.