Planned to be established in Goole, England, the mill will annually produce 240,000 tonnes of fresh fibre-based tissue paper once fully operational. It will create more than 400 jobs at the facility, as well as thousands more across the supply chain and the local economy.
Feb 17, 2025
Metsä Group’s tissue paper business, Metsä Tissue, has submitted a full planning application to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council for its proposed new tissue paper mill in Goole, England.
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If approved, the state-of-the-art tissue paper mill would produce 240,000 tonnes of fresh fibre-based tissue paper per year once fully operational. This represents about one-fifth of the current tissue volume in the UK. It would create more than 400 jobs at the facility, as well as thousands more across the supply chain and the local economy.
Around 40 percent of the tissue in the UK and Ireland is currently imported. By increasing the production of world-class local tissue paper in the UK, the completed project would help the country to increase self-sufficiency to around 85 percent, whilst reducing the amount of transportation on the UK roads.
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Falling under Metsä Tissue’s strategic Future Mill programme, the planned mill in Goole would use cutting-edge production technologies to deliver an efficient and modern facility with an outstanding environmental performance. Metsä Tissue is investing in the latest technologies in its tissue paper mills across Europe to improve environmental and operational efficiencies. Its ambition is for fossil-free production and offering by 2030.
