Aiming for fossil-free mills

Energy usage is one of the most important sustainable development topics in Metsä Tissue’s operations. Metsä Tissue, and Metsä Group as a whole, are aiming for fossil free mills by 2030. This means that fossil fuels will no longer be used in production, and thus no fossil fuel-based carbon dioxide emissions would be generated.
  • 0

    tons

    Target 2030: fossil emissions (scope 1 & 2)

  • 59

    %

    share of fossil free total energy in 2023 (scope 1 & 2)

  • -41

    %

    reduction from 2018 fossil carbon emissions (scope 1 & 2)

Performance

  2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
Scope 1 Share of renewables 23 % 20 % 19 % 18 % 17% 16%
Scope 1 ktCO2 157 190 203 206 224 227
Scope 2 Share of renewables 21 % 25 % 24 % 19 % 21 % 19 %
Scope 2 ktCO2 242 307 289 261 282 447
% reduction from 2018 CO2 fossil emissions -41 % -26 % -27 % -31 % -25 % 0 %

Sustainability cases

Since September 2023 the Kreuzau mill has been replacing the use of fossil-based lignite by wood pellets in the mills heat production.
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Metsä Group invests in fossil free future by modernising and expanding Metsä Tissue’s Mariestad mill.
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In 2021 we announced that our Mänttä mill in Finland no longer uses peat for energy production. Renewable wood fuels, such as bark and other by-products of wood production, have replaced peat. The change to using biomass has been significant for reducing the fossil emissions of the mill.
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Future Mill in Mariestad

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Peat phase-out at Mänttä

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Wood pellet use in Kreuzau

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