Metsä Board

Metsä Board’s packaging design team innovates packaging solutions to improve the resource efficiency and functionality of packaging, reduce its environmental impact, and even reshape the packaging industry. Our premium paperboards are suitable for a wide range of packaging solutions the customers have not even thought of yet. Read more about the topic from our Board magazine: https://lnkd.in/dXsBZU5c

Continuous improvement of resource efficiency is vital in reaching our climate targets and supporting circular economy. Have a look at how we’re progressing.   Our 2030 target is to increase energy efficiency by at least 10% and reduce the use of process water per tonne produced by 35% compared to year 2018. One of our completed measures in 2023 was the upgrade to Kemi board mill, which will reduce its energy consumption by 5% and water use by around 40% per tonne produced.   While we saved 30 GWh of energy with efficiency measures in 2023, market-based production curtailments and investment shutdowns weakened our overall efficiency in energy and process water use. However, our water consumption remains very small in proportion to the total water use, as we return around 96% of the water to waterbodies after use. We make use of most of our production side streams, with only 1% of process waste delivered to the landfill. We are also seeking new applications for side streams to reach our 2030 target of zero process waste delivered to landfill.   Read more in our Sustainability Review 2023: https://lnkd.in/d4q29vcf

Collaboration creates the perfect package! This is the idea behind Metsä Board’s co-creation workshops, where new and improved packaging solutions are created in collaboration. Read from our Board Magazine how expert skills combined with advanced technology lead to innovative and carefully studied packaging solutions: https://lnkd.in/dEkTjrz3

Metsä Board has ambitious climate targets and a detailed roadmap to reach them by the end of 2030. See how we’re doing on our journey towards fossil free production and products. Our fossil-based CO2 emissions were significantly reduced in 2023, mainly due to market circumstances, but also as a result of completed investments and energy efficiency measures. Since 2018, our fossil-based CO2 emissions per tonne produced have been reduced by 54%. In lowering the carbon footprint of packaging, lightweight products – one of our longtime focus areas in R&D – and a high share of fossil free energy in production are key. As we shift to fossil free energy, the footprint of our products will keep decreasing. Already 90% of the energy we use is fossil free. Our products are made primarily from wood fibre, a renewable raw material. The share of fossil free raw materials and packaging materials remained at 99%. As part of our effort to reach the 2030 target of 100%, replacing fossil-based binders in our paperboard coatings with bio-based alternatives was a major focus of trials in 2023. Read more in our Sustainability Review 2023: https://lnkd.in/dk5a3Kwp

Haleon, home to several household health brands, works together with Metsä Board to bring new solutions to consumer health product packaging. The company aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions – from source to sale – by 2040. Read from our article how an industry-leading pharma company aims to make better everyday health with renewable packaging: https://lnkd.in/dZJXHTbk

Metsä Board is committed to forestry that enhances biodiversity, makes forests more resilient to climate change and increases their carbon sequestration. Check out our actions and progress.   We use only traceable wood of certified or controlled origin. Our actions also ensure that forests grow more than is harvested so that they can continue to act as a carbon sink. Forestry operations do not cause deforestation in our wood supply area.   In measures that are essential for preserving forest biodiversity, Metsä Group is closing in on the 100% target of leaving retention trees (96%) and high biodiversity stumps (92%) standing on harvested sites.   In regenerative forestry, 2023 saw the introduction of Metsä Group Plus, a forest management model that safeguards and improves forest nature more comprehensively than current forest certification standards require. As the members of our parent company Metsäliitto Cooperative own about half of Finland’s private forests, Metsä Group Plus has considerable potential.   Read more in our Sustainability Review 2023: https://lnkd.in/dP8bvF6b

How are we doing at Metsä Board in mitigating climate change, promoting biodiversity, using resources efficiently, and developing a responsible corporate culture and supply chain?   Sustainability targets must be ambitious for the results to make a difference. At Metsä Board, we aim to achieve fossil free production and products by the end of 2030. Already 90% of the energy and 99% of the raw materials used at our mills are fossil free. We continuously invest in production technology that helps save resources. We have detailed roadmaps for the climate and water measures we’re taking to reach our targets. Resource efficiency steers our R&D as well, with lightweight products and packaging solutions as our focus. Minimising the negative impacts on the environment is not enough. Metsä Group has adopted regenerative forestry principles to take our efforts to the next level. The goal is to transfer forests to the next generation in a vibrant, diverse and climate-resilient condition. We aim to verify positive impacts on forest biodiversity by 2030 at the latest. In promoting social responsibility, we focus on ethical corporate culture, employee wellbeing and safety at work. We advance diversity, equality and inclusion with our Metsä for all vision. We have prepared a Sustainability Review to get you up to date with our key sustainability topics and our progress in 2023. Look into the review to learn more and see how we are advancing on the common road towards a positive change: https://lnkd.in/dyju-UJz

Metsä Board is modernising the folding boxboard machine at its Simpele mill to improve the quality of folding boxboard and increase production efficiency. The modernisation of the board machine is part of a wider investment programme to modernise the mill. Read more from our article: https://lnkd.in/d-QZgCPs

Calculating the carbon footprint is a mainstay in most industries – but what about the carbon handprint? Read from our Board Magazine what AFRY’s Senior Principal, Tiina Pajula and Metsä Group’s Maija Pohjakallio, VP, Climate and Circular Economy tell about the topic: https://lnkd.in/d2RDpEgs

The ultralight pizza box was selected as one of the winners of 2024 WorldStar packaging competition earlier this year. Metsä Board’s South East Asia, Sales Director David Teo received the award in Bangkok, Thailand last weekend. The awarded ultralight pizza box solution, made of MetsäBoard Natural WKL Bright, uses considerably less material than traditional solutions without compromising rigidity, function or print quality. Thank you Adara Pakkaus, Futupack, Marvaco and Dr. Kai Lankinen for co-creating this concept with us!