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Husum, Sweden
Paper and pulp mill Metsä Board Husum 

Metsä Board Husum is an integrated paper and pulp mill producing high-quality uncoated and coated fine paper and bleached market pulp for demanding end-uses. The production facilities are located in Husum, Sweden.

Products

  • Data Copy - a range of office papers
  • Logic - business papers
  • Modo Papers - high-volume office papers in reels used for large-scale business communications
  • Galerie Fine - coated fine paper with high brightness, smoothness and improved opacity (produced for Sappi Ltd) 
  • SAVE! - innovative copy paper for internal and volume printing and copying 

Key figures
Established 1919
Number of employees 870
Production capacity 435,000 t/a uncoated paper; 275,000 t/a coated paper; 690,000 t/a bleached kraft pulp
Production lines Three paper machines (working width 6.50 m; speed up to 1,300 m/min; grammage range 42-160 g/m²); four cut-size lines; one coater, wood-handling with two lines: pine/spruce and birch, pulp mill with two fibre lines: bleached softwood pulp and bleached hardwood pulp; three drying machines
Certificates ISO 9001, English (pdf); Svenska (pdf)
ISO 14001, English (pdf); Svenska (pdf)
SS 62 77 50, Edition 1, English (pdf)
PEFC Chain of Custody, English (pdf); Svenska (pdf)
Energy Management System Certificate, English (pdf); Svenska (pdf)
FSC Certificate, English (pdf)
 

History
2004 A new waste water treatment plant taken into operation
2001 Start-up of coater BM1 and upgrade of PM8
1999 PM7 is upgraded
1997 New evaporation plant
1996 New wood handling
1985 PM8 start-up
1978 New softwood production line with continuous digester and oxygen delignification
1976 PM7 start-up
1972 The first paper machine PM6 is built
1946 Husum is the first mill in the world to use chlorine dioxide for bleaching
1919 Sulphate pulp mill built in Husum with production of 20,000 tonnes of unbleached kraft pulp during the first year

See location

Metsä Board Husum
SE-890 35 Husum
Sweden
Tel. +46 6631 8000
Fax +46 6631 8500

Mill manager
Seppo Puotinen
Tel. +46 663 18102
Fax +46 663 18500

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|Updated: 07/05/2012
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