Metsä Fibre has signed an agreement with ÅF Pöyry on the pre-engineerings of Kemi bioproduct mill and Rauma sawmill in Finland. ÅF Pöyry will provide Metsä Fibre consulting services for pre-engineering projects, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
The aim of the pre-engineering projects is to create conditions for the investment decisions. The investment decision of the Kemi bioproduct mill will be made at the earliest in the summer of 2020 in and decision considering the Rauma sawmill in early 2020.
If implemented the Kemi bioproduct mill would be the largest investment of the Finnish forest industry, totaling Euro 1.5 billion. The mill would produce annual 1.5 million tonnes of softwood and hardwood pulp among other bioproducts. The annual wood consumption of the mill would be approximately 7.6 million cubic meters.
The total investment of Rauma sawmill would amount to approximately Euro 200 million and the annual production would be approximately 750,000 cubic meters of pine sawn timber. New technology and utilisation of data guarantee that the new sawmill would be the most modern and efficient unit in its field. The new sawmill would employ in its entire direct value chain roughly 500 people in total in Finland.
Metsä Fibre is a leading producer of bioproducts, bioenergy and sawn timber.
