Metsä Fibre to build a new bioproduct mill in Kemi
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Feedstock
and processing capacity |
Wood
required by the mill will be procured from sustainably managed forests and
the origin of the wood is always known. It will use
approximately 7.6 million cubic metres of pulpwood a year, which is 4.5
million cubic metres more than the current pulp mill in Kemi. Wood is planned
to be procured mainly from Finland. The availability of high-quality wood raw
material is supported by the strong owner base of Metsäliitto Cooperative. The wood
procurement to Kemi mill will expand to Sweden in the future, from where it
is estimated that approximately one million cubic meters of wood will be procured
annually. |
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Production
capacity |
It will
produce 1.5 million tonnes of softwood and hardwood pulp per year, as well as
many other bioproducts. It will
also produce 2.0 TWh of renewable electricity per year, which equals to
roughly 2,5% of Finnish total electricity production and together with
Äänekoski bioproduct mill roughly 5%. |
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Main
partners for the construction project |
Valmet,
ABB, AFRY and Fimpec. |
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Economic
impact |
Kemi
bioproduct mill will increase the annual value of Finland’s exports by
approximately €0.5 billion, and the positive annual income effect in Finland
from wood sales and domestic purchases will also be approximately €0.5
billion. |
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Employment
effect |
The new
bioproduct mill will secure the 250 jobs in the existing pulp mill in Kemi
for decades to come and will create around 1,500 new jobs across its entire
direct value chain in Finland, most of them in wood sourcing. All in all,
approximately 2,500 people will work in the direct value chain. During
the construction phase, the employment impact will be nearly 10,000
person-years and more than half of it will be located in Kemi. The number of
individual persons working in the mill area during the construction phase is
estimated to be around 15,000. |
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Timeline |
The
Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland granted the
environmental and water supply permits to the Kemi bioproduct mill in
December 2020. The
construction phase will take approximately two and a half years, and the mill
will be completed during the third quarter of 2023. |
