Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, is launching an efficiency improvement programme at the Husum integrated mill in Sweden. The efficiency improvement programme concerns all operations at the mill.

Metsä Board has completed a EUR 170 million investment programme at Husum, aiming to improve its result by EUR 50 million as of 2018. In 2015, the company closed down two paper machines at Husum and converted one paper machine to produce linerboard. In addition, it started up a new folding boxboard production line at Husum in February 2016. The investment programme also included improvements to the integrated mill's pulp mill and port.

The efficiency improvement programme targets minimum of EUR 10 million annual cost savings. The company will also begin charting the options for further development for the integrated mill.

“We've made a successful transition from paper production to paperboard at Husum, and next we will harmonise operating methods and eliminate overlaps,” says Metsä Board's CEO, Mika Joukio. “The Husum integrated mill is one of Europe's largest paperboard producers, and it has all prerequisites to be the most profitable unit in the industry as well.”

The measures to improve efficiency will begin as soon as possible, and the impacts on result are expected to be visible already during the current year. The company will report on the progress of the efficiency improvement programme in its’ interim reports and separately, as necessary.

 

Source : metsaboard.com

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