Supplier: Metsä Group

Website: http://www.metsagroup.com/

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Metsä Fibre prüft Umbau des Zellstoffwerks Kemi

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

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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

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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

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15 February 201815 February 2018

Bioeconomy: A global trend?

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Metsä Wood bringt ‚Open Source Wood‘ auf den Weg

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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11 April 20167 April 2016

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

Policy and markets, bio-based building blocks and biorefineries

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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

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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

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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

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11 March 20168 March 2016

Metsä Group’s Sustainability report 2015 has been published

Wood products from northern forests

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3 February 201629 January 2016

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

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

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16 September 201512 September 2015

Benjamin Gonzalez talks to Il Bioeconomista. An interview with the CEO of METEX

Company's innovations are based on industrial fermentation processes and designed to provide new ways of producing chemicals

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27 August 201526 August 2015

Ilkka Hämälä talks to Il Bioeconomista. An interview with the CEO of Metsä Fibre

Interview with the CEO of Metsä Fibre, a world leading producer of softwood pulp and one of the main player of the bioeconomy in the European Union

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19 June 201518 June 2015

EIB supports a new Finnish next-generation bio-product mill

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Metsäliitto Cooperative signed last Friday a EUR 75 million loan agreement for the construction of a new large-scale bio-product mill in Finland (Äänekoski)

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15 June 201512 June 2015

EuropaBio and Smithers Rapra confirm agenda for 8th edition of EFIB

Themes to range from inspiring new business models, circular economy and creation of markets, issues of financing and funding in addition to the availability of feedstocks, and update on the status and outlook of biobased industries

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2 December 20141 December 2014

Prosweets Cologne: 2015 mit Schwerpunkt Verpackung

Zahlreiche Unternehmen zeigen Lösungen und Technologien für die Produkte von morgen

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17 September 201416 September 2014

Revival of softwood fiber-based forest industry in the Nordic countries with investments of 3 billion dollars in pulp, bio energy and bio-materials

Forest companies in Northern Europe have announced plans to investment three billion dollars in 2014 in attempt to move beyond mostly producing newsprint and commodity packaging grades

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25 April 201416 June 2014

Metsä Group plans to build a next-generation bio-product mill in Finland

New mill to increase the consumption of fibre wood in Finland by approximately 4 million cubic metres per year

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11 July 2013

Swedish project aims to produce bio-oil from pulp mill black liquor lignin

Biorefinery R&D project number 100 has now started in the Swedish Processum cluster

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14 January 2013

Metsä Group joins international Biobased Industries Consortium

European industry forms consortium to push biobased agenda

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27 February 2012

19 Paper Giants disclose their footprint

WWF Environmental Paper Company Index- a rating of paper producers on their global footprint