Metsä Group to focus increasingly on carbon capture
Metsä Group’s production units annually generate around 12 million tonnes of wood-based carbon dioxide, and the company is increasingly focusing on promoting its large-scale capture.“Bio-based carbon dioxide is an important but still untapped side stream that could be harnessed more effectively as the technology and markets develop,” says Kaija Pehu-Lehtonen, who has been appointed the new project director of Metsä Group’s carbon capture project.If carbon capture proves viable, it will provide the forest industry with a new high-volume wood-based raw material that can be used to replace