Rethinking the use of plastic

Metsä Tissue supplies hygiene paper products and solutions for public washrooms, industrial production and food processing under the Katrin brand. Katrin’s product range includes dispensers for toilet papers, hand towels, soaps and hand disinfectants. The dispensers are made of plastic, but designed and engineered to be robust and long-lasting and in the end, recyclable.  

To make the dispensers even more sustainable, Metsä Tissue has trialled recycled material in them. The trials have been successful, and all black plastic parts in the dispensers will be replaced with recycled material during spring 2019. In addition, a fair share of dispensers will be produced with their transparent part out of recycled material. Also pin plugs that secure the smooth operation of the Katrin dispensers are now made of recycled plastic.  

At Metsä Tissue, we continuously look for ways to reduce, recycle, and replace plastics in packaging, too.  

“Plastic is not the only way to pack tissue products and we have a large range of products that we deliver in cardboard boxes, which offers a good protection when there is no fear of excess moisture and the content is heavy.  Metsä Tissue aims to develop thinner packaging in order to reduce the amount of plastic in them. Also avoiding overpackaging and focusing on bigger transport units reduces the use of plastic per paper product delivered,” says Markus Reivala, Vice President, Supply Chain, Finland & Baltics.

Metsä Tissue
With its high-quality tissue and greaseproof 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 professionals in Europe and the world’s leading supplier of greaseproof papers. Our main brands are Lambi, Serla, Mola, Tento, Katrin and SAGA. With production units in five countries, we employ a total of about 2,800 people. Our sales in 2018 were EUR 1 billion. Metsä Tissue is part of Metsä Group.
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