Metsä Tissue Has Heavily Invested in its Swedish Tissue Mills

Metsä Tissue, part of Metsä Group, has invested approximately Euro 30 million on sustainable heat generation at its Swedish tissue mills. As a result, the Metsä Tissue mills in Mariestad, Pauliström and Nyboholm, are now using fossil free and CO2 neutral steam generation in tissue production.

"Energy-wise future is built on the renewable, also in tissue production where the drying phase is heat intensive. Therefore, we have invested in bio energy in all our Swedish mills," says Mark Watkins, SVP Consumer Nordics. "We started to operate the new bio boiler in our Nyboholm mill in late 2017. Earlier we have been using partly fossil fuels for heat generation, but now the new boiler has enabled us to move to 100 percent bio fuels, meaning bark, sawdust, wood chips and other wood based fuels as well as sludge that is a production side stream from using recovered paper in our mills. Going forward, oil is used only as a reserve fuel for exceptional circumstances to ensure production continuity."

The bio boiler investments (one in Pauliström, two in Mariestad and now the latest one in Nyboholm) support Metsä Group’s target to reduce fossil CO2 emissions in production.

"In Sweden, we produce Lambi and Serla products for households and Katrin products for the away-from-home segment, and our products bring hygiene and wellbeing to millions of people each day. We are also a responsible employer and local manufacturer, and sustainability has a fundamental role in everything we do,, Watkins adds. "Consumers are more and more aware of the sustainability topics, which is a good thing for us, as Metsä is a forerunner in sustainable bio economy."

Metsä Tissue is a leading tissue paper products supplier to households and professionals in Europe and the world’s leading supplier of baking and cooking papers. Its main brands are Lambi, Serla, Mola, Tento, Katrin stream from using recovered paper in our mills. Going forward, oil is used only as a reserve fuel for exceptional circumstances to ensure production continuity."

The bio boiler investments (one in Pauliström, two in Mariestad and now the latest one in Nyboholm) support Metsä Group’s target to reduce fossil CO2 emissions in production.

"In Sweden, we produce Lambi and Serla products for households and Katrin products for the away-from-home segment, and our products bring hygiene and wellbeing to millions of people each day. We are also a responsible employer and local manufacturer, and sustainability has a fundamental role in everything we do,, Watkins adds. "Consumers are more and more aware of the sustainability topics, which is a good thing for us, as Metsä is a forerunner in sustainable bio economy."

Metsä Tissue is a leading tissue paper products supplier to households and professionals in Europe and the world’s leading supplier of baking and cooking papers. Its main brands are Lambi, Serla, Mola, Tento, Katrin and SAGA. With production units in five countries, it employs a total of about 2,800 people. Sales in 2017 were Euro 1 billion. Metsä Tissue is part of Metsä Group.