Metsä Tissue has had to curtail its production both in its Zilina mill, Slovakia, and Kreuzau mill in Germany for several days because of the high energy price peaks. With the high energy cost inflation, further production curtailments are likely and they may also impact the availability of daily tissue products in the markets, as substantial amounts of daily production losses will occur.
“To mitigate the situation, we have explored all possible energy efficiency improvement actions and mitigation actions to replace Russian gas with alternative energy sources are on-going. We have also been forced to revise our offering and the crisis will also speed up the move towards fresh fibre focused strategy, which enables lower energy use in the paper making, compared to recycled fibers,” says Tobias Lüning, SVP Central Europe, Metsä Tissue.
Tissue profitability will continue to be reviewed on a daily basis and the high energy costs will most likely continue to cause additional temporary production shutdowns.
Metsä Tissue is one of the leading tissue paper suppliers in Europe.
