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

Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has launched a prefeasibility study on renewal of Kemi pulp mill.

In the prefeasibility study Metsä Fibre is investigating two options:

1. Replacing completely the current pulp mill with a new bioproduct mill. Compared to the current mill, the new mill would be clearly larger in terms of production capacity, consumption of wood raw material and impact on employment.  The self-sufficiency in electricity would be considerably raised and the bioproduct range would be expanded.
2. Extending the life cycle of the current mill by modernising several departments and maintaining production capacity and wood consumption largely unchanged.
   

The customer is the production chain’s most important link

A logistics solution tailored for the needs of Metsä Group will raise the efficiency and accuracy of the pulp production chain at Äänekoski bioproduct mill to a new level.

Metsä Fibre has taken careful steps to ensure that pulp deliveries from the bioproduct mill to customers will be handled efficiently as soon as the mill has started up. Pulp deliveries from the new mill to customers will begin in early September 2017. Once the bioproduct mill is fully operational, Metsä Fibre's pulp production capacity will grow from 2.5 million tonnes to 3.2 million tonnes in total.

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Our pulp mills produce bioenergy in excess of their needs

Pulp mills of Metsä Fibre make efficient​ use of wood raw material by producing bioenergy and biochemicals in addition to pulp. Not only are our mills self-sufficient in terms of energy, they also generate excess energy for the use of nearby communities. By-products from our production ‒ bark and wood dust ‒ are also used as fuel in power plants.

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