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16 February 202314 February 2023

Metsä Spring leads funding round in Fiberwood to make insulation and packaging fossil free

This Finnish startup upcycles side streams of the mechanical wood industry to create 100% ecological and recyclable insulation and packaging materials that are free from fossil-based materials

13 February 202311 February 2023

Metsä Group’s nature programme providing funding for restoration projects – application process starts

The application period for Metsä Group’s funding programme for nature restoration projects starts on 1 February 2023. Funding for planned and targeted measures aiming at safeguarding biodiversity can be applied for until 30 April

10 February 20237 February 2023

Metsä Group receives Finland’s most startup-friendly company award for the second year running

Metsä Group has been honoured for its support of startup communities, advancing sustainable innovations related to various wood-based materials with investments, R&D and production support, thus helping startups bring their innovation to the masses

18 January 202316 January 2023

Metsä Group and VR intensify their cooperation on sustainability

Both Metsä Group and VR are companies with major role in the society and they therefore play an important part in improving environmental performance and responsibility

4 November 20222 November 2022

Metsä Group’s pine sawmill inaugurated in Rauma

The new Rauma pine sawmill of Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, was inaugurated on Monday, 10 October 2022

29 September 202226 September 2022

Innomost is among top 4 hottest startups in Finland

Finnish circular economy pioneer, Innomost has raised additional €1M investment in bridge funding to take the global growth plan to the next level

9 August 20221 August 2022

Metsä Wood’s sustainability targets 2030: Metsä Wood’s sustainability targets are based on Metsä Wood’s strategy and Metsä Group’s sustainability targets

These targets are set to achieve excellence in sustainability across the supply chain and in our daily work by 2030. Targets are based on the global Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs – set by the United Nations

27 April 202221 April 2022

Creating a sustainable Finnish textile industry with bio-based and recycled fibres

The Telavalue project continues the line of previous projects of the Telaketju network and have promoted the creation of a Finnish circular economy of textiles

12 October 202111 October 2021

Metsä Group is planning to invest EUR 200 million in the construction of a Kerto® LVL mill in Äänekoski

Lightweight, environmentally friendly Kerto LVL products speed up construction, especially in industrial prefabrication, in modular and traditional project construction

22 June 202121 June 2021

Nouryon signs long-term partnership with sustainable bioproduct supplier Metsä Fibre

Nouryon, a global specialty chemicals leader, has signed a 10-year agreement with Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group

10 June 202116 June 2021

Very good sustainability results for Metsä Group’s Kuura textile fibre

Kuura is still in a R&D phase and the production process to make it is currently being tested and further developed at a tonne per day demo plant

20 May 202116 June 2021

Metsä Group and forest owners have planted 270 million trees in a decade

In the decade between 2010 and 2020, Metsä Group supplied forest owners with a total of 270 million seedlings and 9,000 kilograms of pine seeds

26 February 202123 February 2021

Metsä Group builds a new bioproduct mill in Kemi, Finland

The construction phase will take approximately two and a half years, and the mill will be completed during the third quarter of 2023

21 January 202120 January 2021

Metsä Spring and Valmet begin construction of the 3D fibre product pilot plant

Construction of the pilot plant began today and the plant is scheduled to start operations in late 2021

6 January 202118 December 2020

Opportunities in fiber-based food packaging

Production capacity of paper food packaging in Europe has been trending higher annually since 2013

16 October 202015 October 2020

Metsä Fibre signed a preliminary agreement with ERCO and AFRY on the chlorine dioxide plant of the Kemi bioproduct mill

AFRY will be responsible for project management and the engineering for the plant

3 April 20202 April 2020

Metsä Group’s investment projects in Finland progress

The world’s most modern sawmill will be built in Rauma

5 March 20205 March 2020

Metsä Spring and Valmet announce collaboration to develop a new wood-based product as alternative to fossil-based materials

The joint project focuses on fine-tuning properties of the new environmentally-friendly material

9 December 20196 December 2019

NC Partnering Newsletter 11/2019

Time to boost the bioeconomy

2 December 201927 November 2019

Metsä Board joins 4evergreen – a new alliance promoting fibre-based packaging in circular economy

4evergreen was created as a forum to engage and connect industry members from across the fibre-based packaging value chain

20 August 201912 August 2019

Metsä Spring invests in Woodio, leader in waterproof wood composite technology

Woodio’s proprietary technology enables the valorisation of Metsä Group’s underutilised side-streams into long-lived, value-added products

31 May 201928 May 2019

How companies across Europe are creating sustainable products using no fossil fuels

European Union is planning to invest another 10 billion euros in Bioeconomy research by 2027

24 October 201819 October 2018

Metsä Group and Itochu establish a joint venture that builds an industrial demo plant to produce wood-based textile fibres

The new technology to be studied and further developed in the demo project is based on direct dissolution using a novel solvent for the pulp dissolution stage

24 September 201821 September 2018

Metsä Group starts cooperation with 4H in Finland to strengthen young people’s relationship with forests

Metsä Group is the main partner within forestry in 4H’s Business Lab in Helsinki

21 August 201816 August 2018

Neue Bioproduktfabrik von Metsä erreicht nominelle Kapazität

Mit der Marke von einer Million Tonnen wurde das Unternehmen nun der weltgrößte Hersteller von Marktzellstoff aus Weichholz

Metsä Group’s bioproduct mill has produced more than 1 million tonnes of pulp, reaching its full production capacity

This makes Metsä Group the world’s largest producer of softwood market pulp

30 May 201825 May 2018

Metsä Group establishes an innovation company and plans to build a demo plant in Äänekoski, Finland for the production of textile fibres

The first concept to be included into Metsä Spring’s portfolio is the new textile fibre production method developed by Metsä Fibre

14 May 20189 May 2018

Metsä Group launches a prefeasibility study on renewal of Kemi pulp mill

Prefeasibility study to examine in particular the availability of wood raw material and the potential of Kemi's industrial infrastructure and logistic connections

Metsä Fibre prüft Umbau des Zellstoffwerks Kemi

Machbarkeitsstudie will sich besonders mit Fragen zur Holzversorgung, der Logistik und der industriellen Infrastruktur in Kemi befassen

15 March 201813 March 2018

Zaha Hadid Architects joins Open Source Wood

Pioneering open innovation project aimed at facilitating knowledge sharing and growth in modular wood construction

26 February 201822 February 2018

Brainstorming the Bioeconomy’s Future and Welcoming 56 New Members at BIC’s General Assembly

At the event, representatives of the BBI JU Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) also presented their projects to industry members

15 February 201815 February 2018

Bioeconomy: A global trend?

More work is needed to realize bioeconomy's potential as a climate solution

3 November 201715 February 2018

Metsä Group’s bioproduct mill inaugurated in Äänekoski

With a cost of EUR 1.2 billion, mill is the largest investment in the history of the Finnish forest industry

5 September 201715 February 2018

EU funding for Metsä Fibre’s long-term development projects

Long-term development projects aim to prove the commercial viability of new technologies to produce lignin-based products and pulp-based textile fibres, bark as a replacement for coal

25 August 201715 February 2018

Metsä Group started up its bioproduct mill

Pulp deliveries from the new mill to customers will begin in early September 2017

6 July 201729 June 2017

Start-up of Metsä Group’s bioproduct mill to begin in August 2017

The new wastewater treatment plant has already started up with wastewater from the Äänekoski integrated mill site

29 June 201727 June 2017

Metsä Wood launches Open Source Wood Initiative

A pioneering open innovation project to accelerate growth in large scale wood construction

Metsä Wood bringt ‚Open Source Wood‘ auf den Weg

Ein bahnbrechendes Open-Innovation-Projekt, das das Wachstum im groß angelegten Holzbau beschleunigen soll

12 June 20179 June 2017

Metsä Group softwood pulp to be used in LG’s loudspeakers

Aqvacomp’s new production facility will be starting up at the Rauma pulp mill in autumn

11 April 201730 March 2017

An interview with Marc Palahi, director of EFI: An ambitious bioeconomy strategy is needed

In this exclusive interview, Marc Palahi talks about bioeconomy and circular economy, Brexit and Donald Trump, the role of mass media and much more

29 November 201626 November 2016

Commission official: ‘Bioeconomy is a unique opportunity to address societal challenges’

EurActiv Slovakia talked to the Commission’s John Bell about the issue

8 July 20167 July 2016

Metsä Wood launches a EUR 100 million investment programm

Metsä Group Stock Exchange Release 8 June 2016 at 11.30 EET

2 June 20161 June 2016

ETLA confirms the strong impact of the Metsä Group’s bioproduct mill on Finnish economy

According to ETLA’s calculations, mill will generate value added of nearly 12 billion euro in Finland

11 April 20167 April 2016

9th Intl Conference on Bio-based Materials – Day 1

Policy and markets, bio-based building blocks and biorefineries

6 April 20165 April 2016

Finland hopes for new growth from shrunken forest industry

UPM's new biofuels plant offers long-awaited growth and hope

16 March 201617 March 2016

Get in touch with the whole value chain of the PHA platform

One of the most important and well established meeting points for the European Bio-based Economy

14 March 201615 February 2018

Metsä Group leads the Finnish bioeconomy

Metsä Group is building the world’s first next-generation bioproduct mill in Äänekoski

11 March 20168 March 2016

Metsä Group’s Sustainability report 2015 has been published

Wood products from northern forests

3 February 201629 January 2016

Jukka Kantola talks to Il Bioeconomista. An interview on Finnish bioeconomy

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

16 September 201512 September 2015

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