Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has chosen Fimpec Oy as the contractor consultant for the Kemi bioproduct mill in Finland. Fimpec will provide Metsä Fibre with construction consultancy services during pre-engineering project, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
The aim of the pre-engineering is to create preconditions for the investment decision of the new bioproduct mill to be made at the earliest in summer 2020. In addition to a concrete construction plan, the pre-engineering project includes, among others, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and environmental permit processes, main equipment agreements and investment proposals.
Fimpec was also the contractor at the bioproduct mill in Äänekoski, Finland.
Once completed, Kemi's bioproduct mill is the largest wood processing plant in the Northern Hemisphere and the largest investment in the Finnish forest industry, worth Euro 1.5 billion. An environmentally, energy- and material-efficient mill would operate completely without fossil fuels and would produce 1.5 million tonnes of softwood and birch pulp annually and numerous other bio-products. Annual wood consumption would be 7.6 million cubic metres.
Metsä Fibre is a leading producer of bioproducts, bioenergy and sawn timber. Metsä Fibre is part of Metsä Group.
