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Finnish Mets Group has started its mill for bio-based products. The 1.2bn investments production capacity is 1.3 million tonnes of softwood pulp a year.

According to the Finnish company, pulp deliveries from the new mill to customers will begin in early September 2017. Mets said that its old pulp mill in nekoski has been shut down and is currently be dismantled.

The new mill will achieve its nominal capacity approximately a year after start-up. Mets Group will be the worlds biggest producer of softwood pulp, said Ilkka Hml, CEO of Mets Fibre. The mill will produce 1.3 million tonnes of pulp per year, along with other bio-based products such as tall oil and turpentine. New bioproducts include product gas from bark, sulphuric acid from the mills odorous gases, and biogas and biofuel pellets from sludge.

The mill will be a platform for production of new bio-based products among them lignin products, textile fibres, and biocomposites. The next-generation bioproduct mill will not use any fossil fuels at all, since it will generate all of the energy that it needs from side streams. In terms of its energy efficiency, the mill is among the world's best within its industry. Its degree of self-sufficiency in electricity is 240 per cent.

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