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Metsä Group to draw up biodiversity plans for its mill areas – Kemi the first in line
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Metsä Group to draw up biodiversity plans for its mill areas – Kemi the first in line
September 12, 2023

Metsä Group plans to boost biodiversity on its land areas in Kemi. Covering more than 650 hectares, the designated site encompasses Metsä Group’s mill area and other areas in the Kemi urban environment. Metsä Group’s operations in Kemi include a bioproduct mill, currently under construction, and a paperboard mill. The company aims to increase regional[…]

Metsä Group’s major customer Finsilva to adopt Metsä Group Plus in its forests
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Metsä Group’s major customer Finsilva to adopt Metsä Group Plus in its forests
July 7, 2023

Finsilva plc, one of Finland’s largest forest owners, will adopt the Metsä Group Plus forest management model for measures carried out in its forests. The Metsä Group Plus model calls for more retention trees, burned wood, high biodiversity stumps and protective thickets in the forest and wider buffer zones along waterways than conventional models. “Finsilva[…]

Metsä Group’s pine sawmill inaugurated in Rauma
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Metsä Group’s pine sawmill inaugurated in Rauma
October 27, 2022

The new Rauma pine sawmill of Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, was inaugurated on Monday, 10 October 2022. The sawmill was inaugurated by Prime Minister Sanna Marin with Ilkka Hämälä, Metsä Group’s President and CEO, and Jussi Linnaranta, Chair of the Board of Directors of Metsäliitto Cooperative. With a value of EUR 260 million, the Rauma pine sawmill[…]

Metsä Group’s Russian operations driven down
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Metsä Group’s Russian operations driven down
March 4, 2022

Metsä Group press release 3 March 2022 Metsä Group’s only plant in Russia, the Svir sawmill, has been suspended. Wood procurement in Russia for Svir sawmill and Metsä Group’s Finnish and Swedish factories has also been driven down. METSÄ GROUP Inquiries: Juha Laine, Communications Director, Metsä Group, tel. +358 10 465 4541 Metsä Group www.metsagroup.fi[…]

Jari Voutilainen appointed Metsä Group’s SVP, Sourcing and Logistics
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Jari Voutilainen appointed Metsä Group’s SVP, Sourcing and Logistics
September 29, 2021

Jari Voutilainen has been appointed Metsä Group’s Procurement and Logistics Director as of 1 October 2021. He reports to President and CEO Ilkka Hämälä. Voutilainen has worked at Metsä Group since 2013. He will take up his new role as Metsä Group’s Director of Public Relations. Prior to this, he was the Group’s Logistics Director.[…]

Metsä Group plans to build a new EUR 200 million Kerto® LVL plant in Äänekoski
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Metsä Group plans to build a new EUR 200 million Kerto® LVL plant in Äänekoski
September 16, 2021

Metsä Group press release 16 September 2021 at 10 a.m. Metsä Group is planning to build a new Kerto® LVL plant in its expanding factory area in Äänekoski. The actual investment decision requires the completion of the town plan for the area. The value of the investment would be approximately EUR 200 million. The annual[…]

Foundation stone of Metsä Group’s Kemi bioproduct mill laid
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Foundation stone of Metsä Group’s Kemi bioproduct mill laid
September 15, 2021

The Kemi bioproduct mill project of Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, is progressing according to plan and the mill’s foundation stone was laid on 13 September 2021. The foundation stone was laid to the area of fibre line of the new mill by Ismo Nousiainen, CEO of Metsä Fibre, Jari-Pekka Johansson, Project Director of the Kemi[…]

Metsä Group has made an agreement with LSAB Suomi on blade deliveries to the Rauma sawmill
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Metsä Group has made an agreement with LSAB Suomi on blade deliveries to the Rauma sawmill
June 16, 2021

“LSAB is a long-term partner of Metsä Fibre’s sawmills, and the agreement with the Rauma sawmill continues this partnership. LSAB Suomi will deliver the sawmill built in Rauma the blades it needs and will take care of necessary services. The company is committed to our common safety targets, and we’ve been able to develop our[…]

Metsä Group introduces a new pricing method with thinnings
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Metsä Group introduces a new pricing method with thinnings
June 4, 2021

In the new method, trees removed by thinning are paid a trunk price based on their severity. The method has been developed to be able to optimize the value added of wood in all end product market situations. The steepness trunk price means that the trees to be thinned are purchased as complete trunks and the[…]

Metsä Group and forest owners have planted 270 million trees in a decade
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Metsä Group and forest owners have planted 270 million trees in a decade
May 7, 2021

Metsä Group and forest owners planted 270 million seedlings in Finnish forests between 2010 and 2020. This summer, the figure will increase by more than 35 million seedlings. Metsä Group supplies forest owners with native tree species that occur naturally in Finland. Under the Finnish Forest Act, a new forest must always be established after[…]

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