From side streams to soil improvement fibres and carbon storages – How fibre fractions from paperboard industry are utilised in agriculture
Metsä Board Corporation press release 10 May 2023Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, is improving the soil of Finnish fields together with Soilfood by utilising the side stream fibre fractions created during paperboard production. What was once considered waste, is now effectively re-utilised into innovative soil improvement fibres. The result is a product that not only recycles the nutrients of wood fibre back into soil, but also stores the carbon of the wood into soil. Soilfood, a Finnish circular economy company, produces wood-based soil improvement fibres from fractions produced as