Metsä Group’s tissue paper business is taking an important step towards more sustainable transports of its tissue products by arranging part of its outbound transports to customers in Scandinavia with fossil-free fuels.
Approximately 40% of Metsä Tissue Scandinavia’s outbound transports are now powered by HVO or bio-diesel. These biofuel transports represent a vast majority of the outbound transports that Metsä Tissue organizes by itself in the region and the company’s short term target is to extend the biofuel coverage of own transports to 100%. Also the customers that organize their own transports are encouraged to collect their tissue products from Metsä Tissue’s Swedish mills with transportations using fossil free fuels.
In addition, the increased localized production with the expansion and modernisation of Metsä Tissue’s Mariestad mill will further reduce transportation emissions per transported tonne. Today, more than 85% of the company’s deliveries are made within a 500-kilometer radius from the mills and the increase in local capacity will provide even more local products with shorter transport distances.
Metsä Tissue produces hygiene products for households and professionals, and greaseproof papers for food preparation and packaging.
