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Mariestad mill

Mariestad mill is also called Katrinefors mill. It was established in 1765 by Anders Rodin, who named the mill after his wife Anna Catarina Fors. The mill is located nearby Lake Vänern in Mariestad, Sweden. At the moment, the mill has two paper machines, six converting lines and a deinking plant where we handle recycled paper used in the tissue production process. In Katrinefors mill we produce toilet tissue, household towels and industrial rolls. We have approximately 370 employees. Metsä Tissue is investing in to a fossil free future at its Mariestad mill in Sweden. The investment will increase the availability of locally and sustainably produced tissue products in the Scandinavian market, in which approximately 40 % of tissue usage is currently imported. With this Metsä Tissue will be a forerunning company in investing into sustainable tissue production in Sweden and Scandinavia with its strong brands Lambi, Serla and Katrin. The investment is one of the largest in the tissue business in Europe and the largest within Metsä Tissue. The construction works started during spring 2023 and the renewed mill is planned to be operational in the second half of 2025.

Key figures

  • 1765

    year

    Founded

  • 370

    Personnel

  • 77 000

    tonnes

    Annual production

  • 3

    Brands produced

Our brands

At Katrinefors Mill in Mariestad we produce products for our brands Serla, Lambi and Katrin.

Mariestad, Pauliström and Nyboholm mill’s certificates

  • Quality Management System ISO 9001
  • Environmental Management System ISO 14001
  • Energy Management System ISO 50001
  • Management System for the Chain of Custody of Wood PEFC™
  • Management System for the Chain of Custody of Wood FSC®

We also have Nordic Ecolabel, also known as the Nordic Swan for all our tissue papers.

Read more about our certified management systems and see our certificates more detailed.

Did you know that...

  • a ton of paper is equivalent to about 14 trees
  • a parent reel weighing about 3 000 kg takes 40 minutes to produce. It is enough for about 20 000 rolls of toilet paper. A lifetime need for a human is about 5 500 rolls.
  • each day we deliver abt 130 trucks filled with tissue products from our Swedish mills to Scandinavian grocery stores.
  • in our Swedish mills, we daily produce tissue paper which is enough twice around the earth.

Contact information

Katrinefors mill, Mariestad
Metsä Tissue AB, Katrinefors Mill
Holländaregatan 4
S-54288 Mariestad
Tel: +46 501 27 50 00
e-mail: firstname.lastname@metsagroup.com

Mariestad mill on a map.

History timeline

  1. 1765

    Founded

    Mariestad mill was founded by Anders Rodin who named the mill after his wife Anna Catarina Fors.

  2. 1800

    Unicaboxen

    In the end of 1800’s century the lunch-box called “Unicaboxen” was produced at the mill.

  3. 1943

    Toilet and household tissue

    Production of toilet- and household tissue starts.

  4. 1989

    Ownership change

    Metsä Serla Oy buys Mariestad mill.

  5. 2000

    Katrinefors Kraftvärmeverk

    Katrinefors Kraftvärmeverk – a boiler for wood chips and sludge is being built as a partnership with the municipality’s energy company.

  6. 2014

    A new converting line

    2014 – Our latest convertingline was built.