Metsä Group’s tissue and cooking paper business invests in a new consumer products converting line in Sweden

Metsä Group Press Release 8 November 2013


Metsä Tissue, part of Metsä Group, will invest EUR 10 million in a new tissue consumer products converting line at the Mariestad mill in Sweden. The investment will further strengthen Metsä Tissue’s position and competitiveness in the European tissue market. The new highly-efficient production line will increase Mariestad mill’s converting capacity up to 80,000 tonnes per year and at the same time improve Metsä Tissue’s delivery reliability.

Metsä Tissue focuses on operating close to its customers. “Listening to consumers and understanding their needs form the basis for our product development. Consumers’ expectations on product quality are increasing all the time. The new converting line represents state-of-the-art tissue converting technology, which means we can produce the softest tissue qualities on the market,” says Mark Watkins, SVP, Tissue, Scandinavia.

The new line, supplied by Futura, will be taken to use in autumn 2014. The investment also includes the extension of the warehouse facilities at Mariestad.


METSÄ GROUP
Group Communications

Further information:
Mark Watkins, SVP, Tissue, Scandinavia, Metsä Tissue, tel. +46 501 275012


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 and forest services. 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.

www.metsatissue.com

With its high-quality tissue and cooking papers, Metsä Tissue makes life more comfortable for consumers, customers and end-users every day. Metsä Tissue is a leading tissue paper products supplier to households and industrial consumers in Europe. We are also the world’s leading supplier of baking and cooking papers. Our main brands are Lambi, Serla, Mola, Tento, Katrin and SAGA. With production units in six countries, we employ a total of about 2,900 people. Our sales in 2012 were EUR 1.0 billion. Metsä Tissue is part of Metsä Group.