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Investment boosts sustainable packaging production with focus on circular economy.

Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, inaugurated its renewed pulp mill in Husum, Sweden, on 3 May. Invited to the inauguration ceremony were, among others, project partners and representatives of Örnsköldsvik municipality. The new recovery boiler and turbine of the Husum pulp mill started up at the end of 2022. Thanks to the latest technology and processes the mill’s bio-based energy production will increase and the mill integrate’s electricity self-sufficiency will amount to over 80 per cent.

Valmet will supply a long-term performance agreement and a board machine rebuild to Metsä Board Husum in Sweden. The start-up of the rebuilt BM 1 is scheduled to take place in the fall of 2023. The total value of an order of this type and delivery scope is typically around Euro 70–80 million.

Paperboard production at Metsä Board's Husum mill is back to a normal level. The mill's folding boxboard line (BM1) and white kraftliner production line (BM2) have reached full production levels. The paperboard production was run at lower-than-normal capacity during the pulp mill’s standstill. Metsä Board resumes paperboard production at its Husum mill in Sweden 23:37 / July 14, 2021 Photo: Depositphotos Paperboard production at the Metsä Board Husum mill in Sweden has resumed to normal production levels following a fire at the pulp mill's wood chip conveyor on 18 June. The mill's fol...