Metsä Fibre's Joutseno pulp mill preparing for annual maintenance stoppage

Production will halt at the Joutseno pulp mill to facilitate annual maintenance work during week 40. The shutting down of normal production processes will proceed starting on Sunday 29 September.

Maintenance work will be performed during the stoppage by the mill's own personnel as well as by some 500 employees of our cooperation partners.  

A gradual restart of production operations will commence on Monday 7 October.  

For further information, please contact:

Pekka Kittilä, Production manager, Metsä Fibre, Joutseno mill, tel. +358 50 5989 951 

www.metsafibre.com

Metsä Fibre is a world-leading producer of softwood pulp. Our main products – sustainably and cost-efficiently produced softwood and birch pulp – are specially developed for the production of high-quality fine papers, magazine and tissue papers, and board. Our product brand is Botnia. With four pulp mills in Finland, we employ a total of about 900 people. Our sales in 2012 were approximately EUR 1.3 billion. Metsä Fibre is part of Metsä Group.

www.metsagroup.com

Metsä Group is a responsible forest industry group whose products’ main raw material is renewable and sustainably grown Nordic wood. Metsä Group focuses on tissue and cooking papers, consumer packaging paperboards, pulp, wood products, and wood supply. Its high-quality products combine renewable raw materials, customer-orientation, sustainable development and innovation. Metsä Group’s sales totalled EUR 5.0 billion in 2012, and it employs approximately 11,500 people. The Group operates in some 30 countries. Metsäliitto Cooperative is the parent company of Metsä Group and is owned by approximately 125,000 Finnish forest owners.