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Harvesting for Metsä Group's bioproduct mill begins

FINLAND (News release) -- Harvesting wood for the needs of the bioproduct mill in Äänekoski started on 11 August 2017. Until now, wood has been delivered to the old pulp mill and for the test runs of the new mill. The bioproduct mill start-up will begin in mid-August 2017.

Buying woodfor the bioproduct mill began already in 2016. Direct harvesting begins today with thinning in the forest of Metsä Group's owner-member Timo Akselin in Uurainen, Central Finland. The harvesting at the stand was carried out by the Saarijärvi-based Forest-Linna Oy, and the transportation was taken care of by Kuljetus H & H Heinonen Oy, based in Multia.

"The start-up of the bioproduct mill is drawing closer, and we can now start increasing the harvesting volumes," says Juha Mäntylä, EVP, Wood Supply, Metsä Group. Harvesting volumes will increase gradually this and next year. The bioproduct mill will reach its nominal production of 1.3 million tonnes of pulp approximately a year after its start-up.

The bioproduct mill will increase Metsä Group's wood supply in Finland by approximately a fourth. The bioproduct mill impacts wood supply across the country - the directions of wood flows and the mills' supply areas will change. The increasing wood supply will bring more than a thousand new jobs to the entire chain in Finland. Forest owners' annual sales incomes from wood are expected to grow by approximately EUR 70 million.

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