Metsä Board has inaugurated its renewed pulp mill in Husum, Sweden. The mill’s bio-based energy production will increase and the mill’s integrated electricity self-sufficiency will amount to over 80 per cent. The total value of the investment was approximately EUR 380 million.
May 4, 2023
Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, recently inaugurated its renewed pulp mill in Husum, Sweden. Metsä Board’s Husum mill in Sweden is an integrated board and pulp mill producing folding boxboard, uncoated white kraft liner and bleached chemical pulp. The new recovery boiler and turbine of the Husum pulp mill started up at the end of 2022. Through the latest technology and processes, the mill’s bio-based energy production will increase and the mill’s integrated electricity self-sufficiency will amount to over 80 per cent.
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The total value of the investment was approximately EUR 380 million. In the second phase of the renewal, to be decided and implemented later in the decade, the two current fibre lines would be replaced with one new line. The renewal included replacing two old recovery boilers with one and three turbines with one. The project also includes a new control room and office, which will gather the operation and maintenance staff on the same floor.
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An investment programme is also underway at the Husum mill to increase the annual production capacity of folding boxboard by around 200,000 tonnes. The investment is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2023. “The renewal will strengthen the Husum mill’s integrated role as an efficient and sustainable platform for the long-term development of paperboard production and is an important step towards our target of entirely fossil free mills,” says Mika Joukio, CEO of Metsä Board.
