Metsä Group to invest €1.1bn in pulp mill in Finland

Georgia-Pacific (GP) will permanently close its Foley Cellulose mill in Perry, Florida. The mill would not be able to competitively serve its customers in the long term despite the significant investments since the site was acquired from Buckeye Technologies in 2013, GP said. The closure affects 525 jobs. Production...

Chile’s forest products company Arauco has decided to indefinitely idle operations at its Licancel pulp mill in the country’s Maule region as of end September. Arauco explained its decision with different, mostly climate-related issues facing the mill, including consecutive floods of the Mataquito River during this...

The Metsä Group has finalised its major project at the Kemi mill in Finland. The company announced that the new pulp mill and the paperboard mill expansion at the site came into operation today, as planned. Operations will start department by department. Pulp deliveries from the new mill to customers are said to begin...