Metsä Spring

Last Friday, Metsä Group President and CEO Ilkka Hämälä appeared on MTV Oy Katsomo’s Good Morning Finland in conversation with MTK ry – Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners's Forest Director Marko Mäki-Hakola. The pair discussed their views on the question, “Are money and nature’s values at odds in the forest industry?” Watch the full discussion (in Finnish) 🇫🇮 👇 https://rb.gy/nqt726 #forest #forestindustry #circulareconomy

Metsä Group is stepping up its focus on carbon capture by appointing Kaija Pehu-Lehtonen as the new project director of the biogenic #CO2 capture project. 💪 👏 If capture of biogenic carbon dioxide proves viable, it will provide the forest industry with a new high-volume wood-based raw material that can be used to replace fossil-based materials. “Bio-based carbon dioxide is an important but still untapped side stream that could be harnessed more effectively as the technology and markets develop,” Pehu-Lehtonen says. Read more in first comment 👇 #carboncapture #bioeconomy #forestindustry

Great things happen when academia and industry join forces! 👨🎓 👩🏭 💪 Yesterday evening, Metsä Group’s Katariina Kemppainen and Matti Toivonen spoke at Aalto University’s process engineer’s guild event in #Otaniemi, Finland. This was an event organised for the second-year student, who are just about to start guiding first-year students in the ins and outs of university life. 🙂 The event was also a great reminder that education and scientific research are essential to innovation. This makes university cooperation a vital component in developing the most promising potential solutions towards a low-carbon economy and helping us solve the major sustainability challenges of today and tomorrow. 🤝 Thank you Puunjalostusinsinöörit ry - Finnish Forest Products Engineers' Association for hosting 🙏 #innovation #universities #circulareconomy

Last week, ministers of forest-rich EU Member States gathered for the For Forest Group meeting in Finland. 🌲 🌲 🌲 🇫🇮 The Group is dedicated to advocating for the interests of the forested Member States within the European Union. Discussion topics included the next steps towards shaping policies, including the European Commission's proposal for a regulation on forest monitoring. 🇪🇺 The Group also had some time to get acquainted with Finnish forestry and industry. With visits to Metsä Group’s Kerto LVL wood product mill in Lohja and a forest site in Nurmijärvi. At the mill, visitors learned about how wood is processed into high-quality wooden products that store carbon. At the forest site, they heard about biodiversity measures and planted spruce saplings. 💚 Read more 👇 https://rb.gy/5eeni6 #forest #woodinnovation #forestmanagement

Time for some team building outside the office - here's most of our Espoo team orienteering under the guidance of nine-time World Orienteering Champion Minna Kauppi. 🎖 In the central park of Espoo, one can enjoy a very varied forest terrain. From open rocky terrain to quite dense forest. 🌲 Eight team members went into the forest and eight came back to the starting point. 😀 💪 #forest #ecosystemservices #teamspirit

Exciting things are happening in the development of new, innovative products that unlock the full potential of the pulp production side stream, lignin! 💡 For example, VTT has teamed up with ANDRITZ, Metsä Group and Dow to transform lignin into a renewable replacement for fossil-based plasticisers in concrete production. The LigniOx case is a great example of a successful EU project that is now advancing from pilot to demonstration stage. 💪 Metsä Fibre (part of Metsä Group) made an investment decision in spring 2024 to build a demo plant for lignin refining in connection with its Äänekoski bioproduct mill. Expected to be completed by late 2025, the demo plant’s daily capacity will be two tonnes of the lignin product. 🏭 Read more about the case study from the link below. 👇 https://rb.gy/xjgdnb #biomaterials #lignin #circulareconomy #demoplant

Happy to be part of the biogenic #CO2 project Forest CUMP. This is a consortium project comprising several partners, including Metsä Group. The main work is done by VTT and LUT University. The big news last week was the opening of the pilot plant in Espoo, Finland that converts biogenic CO2 into ethylene and propylene. These are, in turn, key raw materials for the production of the well-known plastics components polyethylene and polypropylene, a.k.a. PE and PP, respectively. Read more from the link below 👇 https://rb.gy/g0hiug #recycledplastics #capturedCO2 #carboncapture Eemeli Hytönen Pirita Mikkanen Juha Lehtonen

The 4-year ExpandFibre entity is approaching its end. Today we share and celebrate the results of various ExpandFibre projects at the final seminar organised at Metsä Group's headquarters in Espoo, Finland. More than 100 people are physically present and the rest are joining remotely. In picture, the two Programme Managers, Katariina Kemppainen from Metsä Group and Matti Sonck from Fortum, set the stage for the seminar. Business Finland Teija Lahti-Nuuttila Metsä Fibre Metsä Board Heli Antila Kari Aaltonen Anna Suurnäkki Markku Leskelä Spinverse Andreas Lindberg #ExpandFibre #ecosystem #sustanablebioproducts #bioeconomy #circulareconomy

We’re familiar with wood as a building material in our houses, but it can be used for so much more than you might expect! 🌲 In fact, also other wood-based innovations can decrease the construction industry’s environmental impact, including helping to mitigate climate change. 🏗 From wood-based bathroom furniture to cellulose-derived materials for the capture of air pollutants and odour removal, and insulation and packaging materials made from wood pulp and side streams, wood has the potential to revolutionise the industry by serving as both a building material and a carbon sink! 💡 Read more in Scandinavian MIND, with insights from Terja Koskenoja, CEO of Woodio, Niklas von Weymarn, CEO of Metsä Group's innovation company Metsä Spring, Hanna Johansson, co-founder and CEO of Adsorbi, and Tage Johansson, CEO of Fiberwood Ltd: https://rb.gy/p9aso7 #sustainableconstruction #biomaterials #woodinnovation #wood #construction

Future Makers! 🙂 It was a pleasure to be able to help at this year's Aalto University Bioinnovation Center summer school. Good luck with the upcoming autumn studies 👍