SWEDEN -- Metsä Board announced that it has inaugurated a new folding boxboard machine at Husum mill in Sweden.

The capacity of the new machine is 400,000 t/a. The company is targeting the volume at the Americas and at food service end-uses globally.

"The Husum mill site has the best available technology, people with extensive know-how and access to an ideal location by the sea where the mill has its own port. These important success factors will also support our customers in their businesses," says Mika Joukio, CEO of Metsä Board.

Last November, Metsä Board announced an additional Euro 38 million investment in a new extrusion coating line and related infrastructure at Husum. This line will be taken into use during the first half of 2017.

Metsä Board is a leading European producer of folding boxboards and white linerboards made from fresh forest fibres.