Metsa to buy half a billion euros equipment for its new giant sawmill in Finland
Metsä Fibre has agreed on the main equipment purchases for the new sawmill to be built in Rauma and the [...]
April 30, 2020
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Metsä to invest EUR 200 million in a new sawmill in Rauma, Finland
Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has made the decision to build the world’s most modern sawmill in Rauma [...]
March 31, 2020
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Finland: Metsä Group, Stora Enso, and UPM plan 6-day lock-out at sawmills, plywood mills
Finnish Forest Industries Federation said on Wednesday it would hold a 6-day lock-out from Dec. 12, closing half [...]
November 27, 2019
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Metsa Group attributes poor Q2 result to low price in Asia
The profit of the major Finnish forest industry company Metsa Group worsened remarkably in April-July, as prices in China [...]
August 2, 2019
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Metsä Wood inaugurates new Kerto LVL line in Finland
Metsä Wood, the Wood Products Industry of Metsä Group, inaugurated the new Kerto® LVL line in Punkaharju, Finland. The decision [...]
June 12, 2019
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Metsä Fibre progresses plans for 750,000 m3/year pine sawmill in Rauma, Finland
Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has awarded ÅF Pöyry with the pre-engineering assignment for new bioproduct mill [...]
May 29, 2019
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Metsä plans to invest EUR 200 million in a new pine sawmill
Metsä Fibre will launch a pre-engineering phase for the construction of a new pine sawmill with approximately 750,000 [...]
April 30, 2019
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Metsä Wood starts test phase for its new Kerto LVL line
Metsä Wood has started test runs on the new 65,000 cubic meter Kerto LVL line at the Punkaharju mill [...]
March 28, 2019
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Underpricing accussations for Metsä, Stora Enso and UPM dismissed
In 2011, Metsähallitus (a Finnish state enterprise, which administers state-owned land) filed a claim for damages against UPM [...]
January 30, 2019
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Metsa Group starts to export sawn timber to China by train
A block train packed with 41 containers of sawn timber left Kouvola, eastern Finland Tuesday and headed to Xi'an [...]
December 21, 2018
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