More Carta Elega and Avanta Prima now available 

M-real has successfully completed the rebuild of its Kyro mill in Finland, where it makes the high quality folding boxboards Carta Elega and Avanta Prima. The rebuild increases the mill’s capacity by 40,000 tonnes per annum to 190,000 tpa, and is part of M-real’s investment programme, targeted at improving availability and service to customers.

“The increased capacity gives our customers better service, with shorter lead times on orders and greater availability,” says Mika Joukio, Senior Vice President and Head of M-real Consumer Packaging.  “We believe demand for our fresh forest fibre products will continue to increase, due to their purity, lightweight and sustainability.”

In a separate joint venture, M-real is building a new biopower plant for the Kyro mill, to replace fossil natural gas with CO2 neutral wood – predominantly discarded wood such as bark and chips.  It is scheduled to start-up in autumn 2012.