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Metsä Board to invest EUR 38 million to upgrade its Husum mill in Sweden
Specifications:
Name:
Metsä Board to invest EUR 38 million to upgrade its Husum mill in Sweden
Location:
Sweden
Company:
Metsä Board
Estimated Cost:
EUR 38 Million
Source:
www.metsaboard.com
Introduction:
Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group is investing EUR 38 million in an extrusion coating line and related infrastructure at its Husum mill in Sweden.
Features:
The line with a paperboard extrusion coating capacity of approximately 100,000 t/a will be taken into use at the beginning of 2017. Extrusion-coated paperboard based on renewable fresh forest fibre competes on many occasions with plastics.
As previously announced, the company is currently installing a folding boxboard machine with a capacity of 400,000 t/a targeted to start up in January 2016 in Husum. Metsä Board is marketing this new volume to the Americas as well as to food service end-uses such as cups, plates and trays globally. A substantial amount of food and food service packaging requires barrier properties against e.g. moisture and grease, and they can be produced with extrusion coating.