Metsä Group announces that the Kemi pulp mill and the adjacent Kemi paper mill will resume production on 4 July after several weeks of maintenance and repair-related downtime. Production will be resumed in stages and it will take about two days to start-up the mills, Metsä Group says.
The group's subsidiary Metsä Fibre has used the five weeks of annual maintenance shutdown to replace the pulp mill's evaporation plant that was damaged in March 2024 explosion and had been only provisionally repaired in order to return to production as quick as possible. Other extensive maintenance work has also been carried out at the site, enabling the Kemi site to resume stable and continuous production and return to full production capacity again, according to the company.
The new Kemi pulp mill was fired up in the fourth quarter of 2023 and has a total production capacity of 1.5 million tpy, of which approximately 1.1 million tpy is market pulp.
At the Kemi paper mill, Metsä Board produces coated and uncoated white top kraftliner with a capacity of 465,000 tpy.
